Captivate

Hi.I'm embeding Vimeo videos to a Web Object. I have made States with different Vimeo embed codes, and made buttons to change between the states. But I have a problem:When changing state (changing video), the prior video(es) can still be heard, since they are still running in the background. So I need the button to also stop a started Vimeo embeded video, before changing state.Anyone have the solution for this? I've tried some ChatGPT-suggestions, but none worked. Anyone here got this to work?kind regardsBen

I recently created a course using Adobe Captivate 12.3 and successfully uploaded it to my LMS. However, after testing, I discovered that if a learner exits the course, they cannot resume from where they left off in the video. I suspect this is because the entire video is contained on a single slide. To address this, I updated the course in Captivate and divided the video across multiple slides. Now, I'm facing a new issue: the course zip file won't upload to the LMS at all. What am I doing wrong?

Hello! I need your expertise in knowing if slide notes are available in the latest version.  If it isn't, are there any workarounds? 

In Adobe Captivate Classic, when a learner review quiz answers, then return to Quiz summary page result, the retake button is not available anymore.How to acticate the retake button after a learner review his quiz answers?

I have a project that works perfectly when I preview it. But after it is published, none of the buttons will work. The shortcut keys work, but nothing happens when the buttons are clicked.

Well, I can't deny I find this very annoying, so I am hoping someone can help. I created several .cpt files with no problem during the Adobe trial run. Now that I have committed to the year, I can still publish the file with no problem, but if I upload it to Canvas, it goes unrecognized. Then I tested it on SCORM Cloud- I got a message that says, "zip file contained no courses". I have now spent the last 5 hours thinking I was overlooking something. I am not. I even double-checked to see that my payment went through. It did.I published the files the same way, I uploaded them the same way, and two different media do not recognize anything being published now. I have tried multiple times, and an earlier version worked perfectly fine.  For some reason, I cannot get the files to work now. The index.html file and any other folders I have seen previously are there. Can someone please advise? I don't know why this is happening

I need to align a text field over a screenshot of a textfield so it looks to the user like they are actually typing in the text box on the image. This is easy in a blank project, but I need to be able to do this and it fit on different monitors. I have tried multiple approaches, including: Fluid Boxes, positioning techniques...I dont understand why this is so incredibly difficult on software like captivate. This is simple CSS. Can anyone help me figure out what I am doing wrong?

Hi, I am trying to publish a course on the review tool, but I keep getting the same error.Thanks  

I have created a simulation project. I added an audio file to the background of each slide. Some of the slides play the audio file I added then the project stops like it is supposed to waiting on the learner to click the right part of the screen. But, some of the slides will have a pause and then start playing audio files from other slides.  I checked the Audio section and there is only 1 audio file. I checked the file itself to confirm it is just the portion I want for the slide.  If I duplicate the slide and move it to the end of the project and hide it, then the duplicate audio doesn't happen but I don't want to do that for every slide. Does anyone know if this is a known issue and how to correct it?

I'm trying to record a software simulation (Demo) with narration with Captivate 12.3 on my Windows 11 laptop. Unfortunately, no matter which microphone I select and calibrate, the audio captured is so faint that I can barely hear about every 10th word. In all the times I've attempted to calibrate, only once did I see green flash on the Input Level indicator bar, and it never came close to "Good". I get the same result regardless of which microphone I select. I've used a desktop mic, a headset mic, my laptop mic, my webcam mic, and the mic built into my video conferencing monitor.  Thoughts on this?

I am trying to embed an MP4 video into my Captivate project.  When published or even in the preview the videos won't play.  There is just the spinning wheel. Before using Captivate Classic I was using Captivate 2017 and never had an issue with this.  Is this an issue with Captivate Classic or is there a fix?

Microsoft language English (India) speech voices aren't appearing in Adobe Captivate.Can anyone please help me resolve it

I have installed a new Microsoft voice in my machine and registered to use it with other applications. For Captivate, the voice agent is available in the Speech agent list. The issue is, though I am selecting the new MS voice agent, the voice is not changing.i.e Its using Microsoft David as default voice though I am changing the agent to MS Ravi.Now my questions:1) Why the voice agent's voice is not changing?2) Do I need to install or register the MS Voice agent in different place?3) The new voice agent is working with other Text-to-Speech application but not working with Captivate  - any reason?3) How can I use other Microsoft voice agent in Captivate?I am using captivate 2019. Thank you in advance for your support.Regards,Nobiul Ahasan

I have Adobe Captivate Classic 11.8.3.8 and Windows 11.I can no longer Print to Word (perhaps the latest update broke it?).  I get the message:Publish to MS Word failed.  Retry after ensuring that - The document is not open. - You have installed Microsoft Word. I do have Word installed, and the document is not open, as it hasn't even been created yet.  I don't have any Word documents open.Can any advise on the fix please?Thank you in anticipation.  🙂

Hello, I make a lot of software simulations in Captivate. It would save me a lot of time if I could change some of the universal settings in simulation slides. Here are a couple examples of what I mean: The click boxes default to not having a Hand Cursor. Can I change that setting so that they do?The Failure / Hint / Success boxes are automatically No Fill, Black Text, Font Size 19, Arial. Can I change those format settings? Thanks.

Hi, I'm using Captivate 11.8.3, and somhow a small, grey, Submit button appears in the middle of one of my slides in the .mp4 published video. The Captivate slide it appears on does not show any button of any kind. How do I get rid of it?

My client needs both a demonstration mode and a training mode for their courses. Using captivate 9, its seems like the program is unable to record both modes from within an existing project with intro slides/summary slides (from one recording). I need both simulation modes to have specific object styles and master slides applied to them. What is the best path forward?My goal is to only have a SME record one time and from that recording have two courses (one demo and one training) with specific object styles applied and intro/summary slides. Thanks in advance! 

Hey everyone - so I have been using Javascript, Shared Actions, and other advanced coding topics for a while now in Captivate 2019 or Captivate for Developers as I think of it (whilst 2023 is Captivate for Designers). I have a project that is about 70 slides long and plays audio on 50 of them. It is easy enough to get audio to play per slide. My issue is that on each OnEnterFrame I fire a Javascript function that controls the length of a completition bar per slide. Because I can only fire one thing per OnEnterFrame, I began looking for solutions.  a) attach the audio to an invisible shape per slide. The first audio plays. Subsequent do not. b) create a shared action - using an advanced action that fires the Javascript then plays the first audio file, I then created a shared action that would (I assumed!) allow me to set the javascript then ask for which audio to play. Of course it didn't work that way and even though the Select which audio to play appeared, the

Hi I am back to Captivate after about 7-8 years. I installed a trial version of All-New Captivate and noticed that many things have changed during this period.  I just tried a simple simulation recording and got the output in three modes as expected. Now, the instruction box is rectangle by default. How do I change it to typical Callout box with a pointer towards the action item, say a Menu? Please suggest. I looked around in Preferences, Properties of the box, timeline, etc. I don't see any setting to do so. Sorry if I have missed something very obvious. Sreekanth

Buenas noches me gustaría saber si por favor me pueden ayudar con el siguiente problema: Necesito que un boton oculto aparezca en la linea de tiempo como visible en cierto segundo o minuto más adelante en la misma linea del tiempo, para que el usuario pueda avanzar una vez allá visto el contenido, pero que al volver a revisar la diapositiva esta ya no aparezca oculto si no visible por que ya fue visto. Como sería la solución para poder trabajar este problema?Gracias. 

I am using the latest version of Captivate (2019) and am using KnowBe4 as my LMS. I've created a training module with a 5 question quiz at the end. When I did a test run in KnowBe4, everything was working great until I did a test run on the quiz and purposely failed to see how it would direct me. My issue is that when I fail the quiz, it does not allow me to retake it. Even if I don't review the answers and just close out, it does not let me retake it. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I have my quiz preferences set as follows:  I would like users to be able to retake the quiz as many times as it takes for them to pass it. Currently, when I fail the quiz in KnowBe4, it doesn't show the module as completed. Instead, it has a "resume" button, but when I click it, it just takes me back to the quiz results page with no option to start the quiz or module over. 

Hi I am publishing Demo, Training and Assessment modes of simulations. The first slide of these outputs have a use case that drives the task captured in simulation. When I view the output immediately after publishing, everything is fine. However, when I launch the index.html from the published folder, I just see the project background and hear the audio on the first slide. The text and images placed here are not visible until I refresh the browser.  I have cleared the Adobe Captivate cache folder. I have tested this in Edge and Chrome browsers.  Anything else I can do to resolve this issue? Please suggest. Edit: I am using Adobe Captivate Classic v11.8.3.8. - Sreekanth

Hi,I'm working on a pretty simple timer advanced action, but I haven't been having much luck.I have my advanced action set up to the following:First tab:WHILE TestTimer =/= 0, decrement TestTimer by 1.Second tab:IF TestTimer = 0, Exit I have my TestTimer variable showing on screen and that's working fine, but it doesn't exit when it reaches zero.I've tried several variations of this, such as trying to hide/show objects based on TestTimer value within the same advanced action, but have not had any luck so far and it's really confusing me.

Hello,I have a slide that contains a video that is several minutes long. In case the viewer misses some information, I'd like to have a "Rewind" button that jumps back X frames and continues playing the video. I am not looking to have the slide jump back to the very beginning of the slide, but rather jump back a certain number of frames or seconds from whenever the button is pressed.I have created a variable called "v_rewind" set to a value of "cpInfoCurrentFrame-10". On click of the Rewind button, I assigned "cpCmndGoToFrameAndResume" with "v_rewind".When I run the project, the button does not work as intended. Instead it jumps back to the first slide of the project. Does anyone know how to fix my script?

I'm using a really cool gif for my project background. To have it loop seamlessly I've set it up on the first slide to display for the rest of the project. However when I go the next slide, it is displayed on top, hiding everything else. I can't re arrange it in the subsequent slides, as it only shows on the first slide's timeline, which makes sense. Now in the properties for this gif, it shows a greyed out check box labeled place on top. I'm not sure why this is there since that's the only place the "option" exists. And interestingly it is not placed on top on that particular slide.Is there some way to fix this without messing up the seamless looping of the gif? Any way to re-order the slide layers in advanced actions?Thanks for any help!