The only way that I know of to share data between SCO's is using the new "Shared data bucket" feature implemented in SCORM 2004, 4th edition. It is a pain to get working, but it will do the trick. ... View more

You can't use SCORM 1.2 packages with the Multi-SCO packager. Multi-SCO requires SCORM 2004 packages as only the SCORM 2004 specification implements the Sequencing and Navigation API. Futhermore - as far as I know Moodle doesn't support SCORM 2004 (only SCORM 1.2) so you won't be able to use a Multi-SCO course at all. ... View more

Your flash programmer is correct. The Captivate preloader percentage will have no effect on inserted videos. These videos are with 99.9% certainty "Progressive Download" videos, which will give you buttering / loading time. If you insert the videos as "Slide video" or "Event Video" (can't remember which one) they become embedded in the Captivate output SWF which would reduce buffering time considerably, but add to the overall size of the SWF and increase loading time. This way the Captivate preloader would also work as intended. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Okay - the big question must be: 1) Are you trying to publish an HTML5 compatible course, which users can view on their iPad using the Safari browser? or 2) Are you trying to publish your course as an App, which must be uploaded and distributed through the App Store? If it is number 1 then it is as Rod says. You need to upload all the published files to a web server. The users can then access your course in their Safari browser on the iPad by going to the URL (www.yourdomain.com/mycourse/) If it is number 2 then you'll need to : a) Get an Apple Developer ID b) Run the course through the Adobe Captivate App Packager c) Upload the finished App to the App store. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

No problem at all. Glad it helped. If you could mark the thread as answered that would be great. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Why not make a "Short Answer" quiz question and set it to only accept "I Agree" as an answer. Since this is a standard Captivate Quiz Question it will be stored in "cmi.interactions" and your LMS should be able to generate a report showing the answer (provided your LMS supports it of course). The other option of adding a comment to "SCORM2004_WriteComment" is definitely a possiblity and you can achieve this relatively simply by executing a JavaScript which sets the value in the LMS. The problem with this approach is once again to actually retrieve this data from the LMS again. I haven't seen an LMS capable of retrieving data stored as comments in a SCORM course, but if your LMS supports it then it's definetely an option. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Yes that shouldn't be a problem at all. You probably won't be able to see it working when you preview the project from within Captivate but if you publish it and manually copy/paste the external swf to the publish directory, it should work just fine. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

It all comes down to which settings you have used in the SCORM reporting set up. If you don't have a quiz you could try setting the "Choose Report Data:" to "Slide Views Only" and then set it to complete at 90 or 95%. This might work so give it a shot. Another option is to set one of your buttons on the last page to "Include in Quiz" so that you have something in your project reporting a score. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

SWF output will work on Mac computers. What I think you mean is that you want to publish an "App" that works on iOS products (iPads / iPhones) right? If so then you'll need to use the "Adobe Captivate 7 App Packager". However the main problem with this is that it uses the PhoneGap framework and that you will very quickly run into the max size limit of around 25 MB. There has been talks about bumping up the max size to allow for bigger projects being packaged as an App, but I am not sure if this has been implemented yet. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Any chance you are working on computer attached to a corporate network? If so you might want to make sure that none of the files Captivate generated (particularly the cache files) aren't located in networked location. Take a look at this article I wrote for Captivate 6: http://www.cpguru.com/setting-up-adobe-captivate-6-in-a-corporate-environment/. Most of it still apply to Captivate 7. Other than that I don't have any explanation for why you are experiencing these problems. I suppose you have tried to remove and reinstall Captivate right? www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Are you trying to get what the user actually typed into the Text Entry Box? This probably wont work. Captivate stores user defined variables (including text entry boxes) in the LMS "Suspend_data". I have never heard of any LMS being able to retrieve this data and display it in a report. What you probably need to do instead is to use one of the standard Captivate Quiz questions as they get stored in CMI.Interactions, which should be possible to retrieve in an LMS report. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Yes you can publish to a CD and you would also be able to create a slide that displays a certificate when they have viewed all the slides. Auto-bookmarking is also possible to some extent. If you deploy the course to an LMS then this will be supported in most LMS's out of the box. If you deploy on a regular website you could utilize the "Self-paced learning" under the TOC settings, which would give you a cookie based bookmark. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Unfortunately you won't be able to convert Adobe Captivate 3 or Adobe Captivate 4 projects directly to Captivate 7. Adobe Captivate 7 only converts project from Adobe Captivate 5 and up. The only choice you have is to convert your Adobe Captivate 3 projects to Adobe Captivate 5, 5.5 or 6 and save them. Then take this project file and convert to Adobe Captivate 7. Also keep in mind that if you have any Flash Animations in your Captivate 3 projects they are AS2 files and most likely will not work in Captivate 7, which only accepts AS3 files. If you don't have access to Captivate 5, 5.5 or 6, you need to find someone you that has access to one of these version that can assist you. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

The Captivate Exit functionality is highly unreliable. If you are trying to exit from an LMS environment you should try calling the SCORM functions that terminate the LMS session instead. Look in the SCORM JavaScript files in the Captivate output and find the one that will end the LMS communication (most likely called something like "terminate" or similar). www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

As I see it the biggest challenge with HTML5 export from Captivate (or pretty much any of the other rapid development tools) is that the output is performing very poorly. If you only make simple "powerpoint" style things then it will most likely run okay, but if you try and create something cool and interactive you are in big trouble. When you are developing in Captivate things are loooking good. If you preview or publish as HTML5 and view in your browser on your computer things look great. However, take that same project and view it on an iPad you will see problems like lagging objects, animations that are out of sync, animations that simply aren't happening, random crashes and all kinds of other weird stuff. It all comes down to the version of iPad that the user is viewing the project from. If you own an iPad 1 or 2 then forget it. Everything runs so damn slow and unresponsive. If you own an iPad 3 or 4 things are slightly better, but don't expect animations, timings or any of the other nice things you have built to actually work like you intended. The only iPad that runs complex HTML5 projects is the new iPad Air, but even here you will see problems although they are not as obvious and problematic as with other iPad versions. Since every iPad since version 1 can do amazing stuff with native apps, such as flight simulator games, racing games etc. with brilliant graphics the problem must either be with the Safari Browser on the iPad or the HTML5 output generated from Captivate (or similar applications). My bet is that it is the output that is causing the problems as they also occur in the Chrome browser and I have tried lots of other HTML5 stuff without these problems. If you want to create a spectacular eLearning course in HTML5 then the only way is to hire a professional programmer that can code it from scratch. I think it will be a long time before we see any rapid development tool which can create awesome HTML5 courses. Right now all the vendors are continuously adding more features to the applications to make them do even more in HTML5. Honestly I don't really need new bells and whistles - I just want to be able to create stable output that performs well on iPad3's and above. The Adobe Air framework is only available for Apps. That means that you would need to create your course as an App to begin with, which poses some other challenges. The great thing about the Adobe Air framework is that you can create stuff in Flash and export it as apps to Android and iOS straight from Flash. It does require an Apple Developer license since you need the signing keys. I created some drag and drops games for kids for iPads using this approach and it works well. However it is my understanding that Captivate does not utilize the Adobe Air framework, but instead uses HTML5 packaged through PhoneGap to create apps. Here you will very quickly run into the size limitation of 20-25 MB for the entire HTML5 folder exported from Captivate. Just my 5 cents.. ... View more

Hi Mohd, If you have purchased a full version of the Print Widget from my site then you should insert that widget into your project. It sounds like your current project is using the demo / trial widget. You should send any support requests through http://www.cpguru.com/contact-us/ as I am a third party developer and have no affiliation with Adobe. /Michael ... View more

Hi Haridoss, Unfortunately I can't share my project as it is confidential and proprietary information. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Not sure why you are getting that problem, but you should probably remove the link and image of your license number. Now it is free for everyone to use your license number, which can give you a lot of grief later. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

choi.M wrote: Hi cpguru, Could you please tell me how to do that process?  I am nearly about to lose my sanity over how to do this, LOL.  How do you open the published directory?  I use Mac (if that helps) and Captivate 7. Here is what I did that is just NOT working: 1) I published my project (I clicked HTML file, SWF and zip files in the output section). 2) I expanded the zip file (main) and added 4 PDFs in the dr folder and zipped that. 3) I uploaded the zip file (main)  in the LMS (Moodle). 4) It finally allowed me to save without giving me the missing xml message. 5) When I went to the course, the PDF links led me to an empty window. How do I fix this?  I need to uploaded my courses ASAP and this glitch is driving me nuts. Aaah - so it is HTML5 export.. I gave up on adding PDF files to an HTML5 SCORM package a long time ago. No matter what I tried I could never get it to work properly. The packages uploaded just fine, but the PDF's would never open and just returned a 404 Not Found when the user clicked a button to open a PDF. What I did instead was to drop the PDF's on a separate domain and just linked to them directly from the Captivate file. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

I have only set up IIS servers on Microsoft Server operating systems, but there is apparently a way to do it in Windows 7 (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-install-iis-on-windows-vista/ ). However I have never tried this so I don't know if there are any limitations with IIS running on a desktop operating system as opposed to a server operating system. If you have an existing server running Microsoft Server 2003 - 2012 then you can simply enable the IIS on these and follow the relatively easy wizard to get it up an running. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Are you getting Captivate to ZIP your SCORM package when you publish or are you "zipping" it yourself. The best option is to allow Captivate to do it when you publish as the files are all in the proper locations then. I have uploaded lots of SCORM packages from Captivate 7 directly to Docebo without any issues. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

I don't think you will find anything free that will allow you to save an image or a PDF from Captivate. The only other alternative is probably to instruct the student to do a "Print Screen" and then paste this into a Word document or an email but that will most likely end up in chaos, so you are better off getting the widget www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

You need to create a new profile on adobe.com and buy it through that. Each license needs their own Adobe profile associated with it. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

That solution is probably the best you are going to get when you can't upload files to the support system directly. However - I just tried adding an S in the screencast URL - https://screencast.com/ - and this still works. Have you tried to simply add the S in the embed code as well? Chances are that it might just work unless the embed url features a different domain than screencast.com www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Did you publish your project with Reporting and SCORM enabled? If yes, then you probably made the mistake of zipping the actual "published" folder. This will create a ZIP file with your published directory as a top-level directory. This will not work - the imsmanifest and content needs to be in the root of the ZIP package. You must open your published directory - select all the files and then ZIP those. This will create a ZIP with your content at the top-level directory of the ZIP archive. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

What exactly is it that you need to do? Captivate doesn't have any requirements at all to the "web-server" the content runs from. It can run from an straight up Apache Server, Microsoft IIS, NGINX or just about anything that can properly serve an HTML file to the user. There are some specifics like MIME types etc. if you are deploying FLV and F4V videos, but I have never had any problems with this. If you want to use the most up-to-date Apache and PHP versions the best options is to create a LAMP box yourself and use this as a server. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

John at EMIS wrote: I have been uploading the swf file to Screencast.com, getting the embed code and inserting it into the HTML support article. In that case the problem is most likely with the embed code from Screencast.com and not Captivate at all. If your HTML support article is on an HTTPS url and you reference anything on an HTTP url (which is what you are doing when you embed stuff) then you will get security warnings. Is the embed code from Screencast using HTTPS URL's that points to your content or is it HTTP URL's? www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more

Perhaps you had the VLC Media Player or the Adobe Media Player (discontinued now) installed on your system at that time. Both these applications would have allowed you to view FLV videos directly. ... View more

I have the exact same problem with a project I have been working on for the last 4 months. Sadly I have not been able to find a solution to the problem. I have tried re-encoding the videos in a 1000 different ways, optimized them, made them shorter - made them longer, deleted the slides and recreated them again. All without any result unfortunately. Our initial workaround was to fade in a snapshot of the last video frame on top of the video itself. However this workaround proved to be a bad idea as it worked perfectly well on an iPad Air, but didn't work as intended on iPad 2, 3 and 4. On any other iPad than the most recent iPad Air you can't be sure that timings you specify on the Captivate timeline will actually work. If you place an image to show up at 10 seconds then it might show up at 10 seconds on an iPad Air, but at 18 seconds on an iPad3. We also found that timings of objects are very sensitive to server and bandwidth flucuations and this can cause "lag" in the timeline. Your workaround of adding blank frames in the video is a much better option than what we had, so I'm going to try this out with a couple of our videos. If I find a real solution to the problem I will let you know here in this thread. www.cpguru.com - Adobe Captivate Widgets, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks and much more.. ... View more