January 24, 2023
Assistance please: Horizontal tab when complete show continue button and click box
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January 24, 2023
Assistance please: Horizontal tab when complete show continue button and click box
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New to Captivate.  I created a project and am having an issue with 1 slide.  I used the Diverse Horizontal tab slide.  and have all four tabs set up.  However, this project does use a Continue button and clickbox over it…when I publish, it says Continue button alone won’t work.

I would like to hide the continue button until all 4 tabs have been reviewed and then activate it so user can continue to next slide.

Can anyone help me with this?

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2023-01-27 13:02:28
2023-01-27 13:02:28

Since you have a click box over a text which is an outdated workflow which is not present in that particular Ready-to-go slide, I know that you are on a non-responsive project. How did you add that Continue button: is it on the master slide, is it timed for the rest of the project or do you have an instance on each slide?

The problem with the Quick Start Project is mostly the lack of documentation. Not all of them are so complicated but you need to know what can be edited and how to edit it. I have published some blog posts about them trying to fill in the lack of documentation.  Here is one link:

https://blog.lilybiri.com/editing-ready-to-go-slides-quick-start-projects-part-2-interactions

If this was a very complicated slide I would recommend not to use it, but it is a rather simple setup. Please answer my question about your Continue button and I could tell you how to edit the action On Enter and the short actions for the buttons. You want a Forced view, and can also have a look at that tag on my blog.

BTW to explain my ‘outdated’ comment at the start: use a shape instead of a caption for ‘Continue’ text and convert that shape to a button. You only need one item opposed to your two items.

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2023-01-27 10:54:03
2023-01-27 10:54:03

In my opinion, the quickstart project’s purpose is counterintuitive to its goal. On the one hand, they are completed projects or slides with all the advanced actions necessary to allow the learners to do something a particular way. But, on the other hand, they introduce complexity that makes it challenging for new Captivate users to work with them.

If you want a tabbed content slide, I suggest building one yourself. Yes, it’s more complicated than the idea that you can insert a ready-made slide that has all the code needed. However, I think the advantage of building it yourself is that you can genuinely design it to look like the rest of your project, and you might learn about advanced interactions in the process. Here is a video that might help you. It’s actually an custom accordion interaction but the logic behind it is the same: https://youtu.be/q72erxHjJd8

 

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