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I can't get this back button to work, no matter what I try. There's a button that runs an advanced action that shows another button and a square. The button that appears has an action that shows a checkmark and a continue button. All that works. However, I have a back button showing at the start of the slide, which doesn't work. Pushing it doesn't do anything. Pushing it several times continues to the next slide. I've tried "return to previous," "jump to <the previous slide's number>," and making an advanced action that goes to the previous slide. I've also tried deleting and recreating the back button. It seems like such a simple thing, but it will not work no matter what I do.  Mark -           

I am trying to delete unused variables but Remove button greyed out

Update 05/23: Added information about updating to the latest SCORM Cloud.   Hello Captivate users, We are pleased to announce the general availability of Adobe Captivate Classic 11.8.3.   What does this update contain Adobe Captivate Classic 11.8.3 contains bug fixes for closed captions, voices, Fluid Box, video demos, and other areas. Additionally, it includes new voices and supports macOS Sonoma.   SCORM Cloud upgrade We have also upgraded the SCORM Cloud API to V2 for better performance and stability. Note that if you are using Captivate Classic 11.8.2 or an earlier version, the SCORM Cloud preview will not be accessible after July 30, 2024. We recommend updating to Captivate Classic 11.8.3 via the Help menu to continue previewing your projects on SCORM Cloud.   View the Adobe Captivate Classic 11.8.3 release notes for more information.   How do I apply the update Launch Adobe Captivate Classic, and select Help > Check for Updates. The Ad

I'm moderately well-versed in Adobe Captivate Classic, but I went through the New Adobe Captivate certification course and want to create a new project. I'm trying to use some of the Asset deck slides as a template for slides. It doesn't seem to matter which asset deck I use. On the thumbnail, fonts and colors of buttons are correct. However, when I download the asset slide(s) to my deck, the fonts are replaced, colors of fonts and buttons are changed. It's a mess, and looks awful. If I just put one slide from assets in a brand new project, save, close, and re-open, a popup asking about missing fonts appears when I re-open. Is it something I'm doing? Should I change a setting of some sort?  What am I missing here? How do I get the pre-made slides to appear as they seem in the Assets panel without having to recreate them myself?Currently using version 12.3.0.12. 

Hi Everyone I just wondered if anyone has tested Adobe Captivate on a silicon M1 mac using Rosetta? According to Apple, the Rosetta emulator should make any intel application work on the M1 Mac, however after previously upgrading to Big Sur and not being able to use Captivate for a period of time, I am waiting on an answer before I upgrade my Mac. I have searched online and cannot find any info, and I chatted with Captivate support online and asked them two questions, to which I didnt really get any useful info. My questions to the Captivate team were: Is a native version planned for the M1 macs? (I know the answer is most likely no)Has Captivate been tested on a M1 mac using Rosetta? At first, the Captivate team simply pointed me to the minimum system requirements - which didn't really answer the specific questions I had. On asking further, as expected there is no planned native version for the M1. However, what I found surprising was that Adobe didn't know if Capt

Hi all,I'm needing to get a new Mac desk computer (a late 2013 Mac Pro, Monterey OS that is no longer able to update further). I also need to update Captivate Classic (I currently have 11.5.5.678) as well as start learning the "new" Captivate (12+). I read that the new Captivate is supported on these new M2/M3 Apple Silicon Processors, but is Captivate Classic? Or does the Classic only work with Intel processors? I need an Apple Silicon processor to keep up with other evolving software updates like Photoshop and Illustrator. But I'm in the middle of big projects with Classic and really need to be able to continue using it, with the intention of transitioning to the new 12+ version down the road. Any advice?

Greetings, earthlings, I have a quick question.On Adobe's tech spec requirements for CPC, I note that there's a comment about it working on M1 chipsets, but nothing about anything later.https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/system-requirements.html Having been caught by this gotcha before, I wonder if anyone else has an idea.Peace, love and green smarties to all. 

Hello,I need help saving.  I have created a project and published it as a HTML5 zipped file.  This is what is needed for the LMS.  However, as the developer, I would like another version that I can open and edit.  This is usually represented as a blank paper icon and as a .cptx file (see image below).  The person that created these is no longer with the company and I can not figure out how to save my project in order to have that second option. Thank you for your help!

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?

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