Good afternoon
I am very new to captivate and am in the middle of creating my first project.
When previewing my project, I have notice that it seems to pause some aspects of the slides, which means I have to click play to restart.
I have notice that on my Previous, End & Next buttons display a pause symbol in my time line. I suspect that this is the reason why my project pauses at the start of every slide. Is there a way to disable this pause function? or should these buttons be in a different format?
Many thanks in advance and hope my question makes sense.
Kind regards
I will not try to explain what pauses and pausing points are, since one of my most visited blogs tries to explain this in-depth. It is only one blog post in a series about the Timeline panel. Due to my experiences of over a decade off answering question about Captivate everywhere, understanding the Timeline, and the way pauses/pausing points are used to create interactivity in Captivate should be the number one skill for each starter with Captivate. Have a look at:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/pausing-captivates-timeline
You may have seen that I use ‘pause’ and ‘pausing point’ because they are not completely the same. You are referring to pausing points which can be part of buttons. Slides like Quiz, Drag&Drop, Score also come with a pausing point. What is affected by such a pausing point is not completely the same as what is affected by an absolute Pause command. You will find that type of info in that blog post.
If you want to delete the pausing point attached to a button timeline, use the Timing Properties panel, where you’ll find the default option ‘Pause after….’
However if you have a shape button or an image used as button on a master slide, that option is elsewhere and results in each slide based on that master slide, to pause at its last frame, whatever the slide duration.
I can provide one thought here, but without knowing all the details on what is included in your slide, I am only speculating at this point. And there will likely be someone that comes along and says “I can’t give that thought”, or “that is incorrect” or something along those lines, but that’s ok. We are all free to make our comments.
My guess is you have an interactive element on the slide that the user is supposed to engage with in some way. In my experience, this can pause a slide. Which is a good thing in most cases and sometimes not what you want in others. So, as you mention your Previous, End and Next Buttons, if you have added these in and assigned the action to them, it is probably why the slide is paused. If you want the content to continue to play I think you will have to remove the buttons, or actions (which would make the buttons not button, just a graphic). But, if you do this, make sure you extend the timing of the slide to allow the learner enough time to read or view the content, whatever is it.
Personally, I prefer forced navigation to allow the user to be able to dictate when to move on with content.
Hopefully this provides some information for you. Someone else may be along with another thought. But that is the purpose of a community, right?
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