January 19, 2021
Placing Captive Content Over Web Objects
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January 19, 2021
Placing Captive Content Over Web Objects
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I use web content a fair bit in my projects. It’s either a HTML5 file or an Adobe Animate interaction saved as an OAM file. Sometimes though I have an issue in the fact that the web object ignores the layering within the timeline. It seems to be playing “Direct to Screen”.

The reason for this is because it seems the default is that the web object is placed inside an iFrame. It’s possible to edit the rendered HTML file and fix that but that’s not practical. You’d have to reedit the HTML 5 every time you published.

This video will show you a neat hidden feature on how you can edit the Adobe Captivate configuration file that will allow you to layer web objects.

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2021-01-21 05:08:30
2021-01-21 05:08:30

Hey Phil, thanks for sharing this. It really is a good resource for new Captivate rookies and we have a lot of new members who will love this!

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2021-01-21 04:26:19
2021-01-21 04:26:19

Hello Phil.

This is really informative. These kinds of hacks will definitely come in handy. Thank you.

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2021-01-21 02:30:25
2021-01-21 02:30:25

Hey Phil, this is great. Just remember that there are new Adobe Captivate users every day. I’m sure they can benefit from your knowledge.

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2021-01-20 15:36:37
2021-01-20 15:36:37

Hidden? Official Help document mentions this hack:

https://helpx.adobe.com/il_he/captivate/user-guide.html/il_he/captivate/using/web-objects.ug.html

Scroll to the topic ‘Things to consider when using Web Objects….’

I have answered this editing workflow many times in all social media, and I am for sure not the only one having done so since years. There are many YouTube videos around as well about that topic. It has several drawbacks as well. In many browsers the interactivity will be lost when following this workflow with UseWidget7. It can be solved with JS as you can read in this post by a great JS expert, David Crawford. However not appropriate for new users:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/captivate/make-webobjects-interactive-when-using-usewidget7/td-p/8777226?page=1

Sorry, Phil, but expect more interesting topics from you. Like how to interact between an OAM and Captivate. At the moment I am use CpMate or CpExtra for that purpose, but not everyone has those widgets in their toolset.

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