Captivate

I was gonna submit this to the Captivate Feature Request/ Bug Report page, but it seems to be broken and heads to an inMoment login. (boo Adobe...) Anyways, being able to auto add a (var fontlink in JS) to have the typekit fonts appear in the local preview would be very helpful for those people who dont have a local webserver for testing. its' great that they have a typekit button and integration, but it kinda falls flat when you can't preview the slides using the fonts because it hasn't uploaded them. (perhaps it could auto-create a typekit web project based on the fonts used in the captivate project. Then create and embed the link for testing.) 

Hi folks,I´m creating a content with it´s own buttons and playbar, but the TOC always covers the whole slide height and therefore my playbar area. How can I adjust the overall height? I did a little research in the published project and found the div class "tocfooter". now I´d like to remove it, but not every time after publishing ... Is there a way to set the height or dismiss the footer somewhere in the templates?? Thanks!

We are trialling our first captivate project, and were about to purchase a VR headset to view back on, thinking about a meta quest 2.Just wanted to see what experience people have had with this - what headsets work well, and has anyone ran into any issues getting it set up?

I am trying to scope out a project and wanted to see if Captivate could be the edit software to use. I would like to create personalised videos in which users fill out a questionnaire and this data is used to create a personalised video based on their responses. This video then needs to be downloadable. Could captivates branching tools be a solution?Thank you in advance 

HiI have recently notice a very strange thing has happened to my stored Captivate files. I have found that a large number of the Captivate files I created last year (pre-July) have mysteriously been converted from being straightforward .cptx files to backup files. The existing backup up files have been converted to backups of the backup.In addition, before that time, I am now unable to successfully open Captivate files because they (unnecessarily) try to replace fonts, but the program freezes at 50%.Can anyone help? I certainly haven’t touched these files. Is there some sort of timer only files?

Every single CBT I have created is now generating "unknown error" at the end of assessments. Even courses that have previously run completely fine and have been live on my companies LMS for months with no issue. I was advised by adobe to update Captivate to version 11.8 (which I have done) and that this would fix it, and it hasn't. I have done the trouble shooting of copying and pasting slides to a fresh project to test if they run, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which slides are corrupting or not. I have some instnaces of sides being completely fine indpendently, but as soon as I put them together, they generate the "unknown error", some that will not generate the error during one preview but will during another. It's sometimes even generating the "unknown error" on a brand new, blank project made from scratch to test. Changing publishing settings does not seem to affect this at all.  I have 2 years worth of CBT development (Almost 100 separate cour

MBP M1 Max using macOS Ventura 13.3.1External 32" LG HDR 4K Display When working on a project, if I drag the window to be larger, the 'slide' will move up into the corner of the window out of frame. I assume this is because the UI hasn't been fully updated for 4K screen sizes. Used to have a similar problem with Illustrator a long time ago. Not a problem per se, but annoying if using a large sized display. 

Hello all,I've created a Captivate project where I am adding knowledge check overlay slides to a video but for some reason when I go to preview my project in HTML 5, each knowledge check overlay slide jumps to another overlay slide instead of continuing the video. How do I fix this?

The newest release of Captivate has a bug.  When inserting a PIP video to a CPVC project, the process seems the same as the previous version, there is a step of extracting the audio visible, however, once the video is finished importing/inserting, the audio is not available:  It does not playback with the inserted video.  The audio is not in the library.  HOWEVER, in the library, the "thumbnail" at the top has a play button, and the audio can be heard as the preview plays.The only workaround I can think of is to extract the audio manually outside of Captivate and import it separately into the CPVC project and add it from the library to the appropriate PIP.  Any other ideas?  Am I missing something?  (Btw, this occurred in a colleague's install.  I had not executed this task in my own update, yet, but both install updates behave the same.)

To start - I've read several blog posts and forum entries before creating my own post. Ive also spoke with my LMS (Absorb) support and they said that Captivate can send this kind of data to the LMS and Ill be able to report on it.  In all of my tests I can pull the report in Absorb, but its being sent as a Multiple choice quiz, not a survey. So! I'd prefer to do this without using Quiz slides, but if thats all I can do, thats all I can do.. I simply need to have text entry boxes that can report the text entered by the user to my LMS. I've tried a method of assigning variables based off this blogpost http://blog.lilybiri.com/answer-key-for-surveyBut that got me nowhere for reporting. I tried doing Short Answer questions set as Survey - no luck either. I tried this as xAPI, SCORM1.2 and 2004. Any detailed help would be appreciated. What am I missing? 

Hi guys, apologies for the n00b question. I have a slide with 3 button that are multi state: I just need an image to pop-up when each button is clicked.  The problem is lets say I click "button 1" and then go to click "button 2" the clicked state from "button 1" is showing up behind the pop-up state of "button 2". I want the other buttons to revert back to their default states whenever a new button is clicked. 

Hi,ist es möglich, über die Voreinstellungen (Preferences) die beiden Status "Rollover" und "Answer" für Buttons (oder für Smartshapes, die als Buttons verwendet werden) zu löschen? Man kann diese bei Bedarf einfügen, aber ich möchte sie nicht vorab für jeden Button automatisch drin haben. Da die verwendeten Smartshapes verschiedene Farben haben können, ist es leider auch nicht hilfreich, den Status "Rollover" und "Answer" im Objekt-Manager bestimmte Farben zuzuweisen, die sich immer mit dem "Normal"-Status decken.Vielen Dank für Tipps!Tina

There is a consistent ask from the users/customers for short/micro videos not more than few seconds (less that a minute). I am trying to figure out a way where we can build multiple short/micro videos and combine them into a full elearning couse as and when required. Typically, I would have 5 different .cptx source files of micro/short videos. And when I need to combine them into an eLearning modules I will create another source file and just copy-paste content of these short videos into one big video.Any tips on this? Or is there a smart/better way to do it?

OK - I am sort of piggybacking off of this threadSelecting and playing audio with javascript In my case, I only have a single audio file that I would like to play on the click of a button.Now... I know I can do this easily with an on success action and it works perfectly.I also know that I can play the audio with an advanced action and it works fine.But... I can do several other simple actions on a button with a single line of javascript.cp.showcp.hidecp.disablecp.enablecp.changeStatewindow.parent.cpAPIInterface.gotoSlidevar=(++var)var=(--var)just to name a few...I prefer to use these whenever I can because it is much faster to type or copy/paste longer strings of stuff than doing all the clicks in the GUISo to my question...Is there a short and sweet thing for playing an audio file you have in the library as well?You know - something likecp.play("sound.mp3");cp.playAudio("sound.mp3");window.parent.cpAPIInterface.play("sound.mp3");I have tried many other combinations of things similar

Good day, all;  I am looking for some help with a reporting issue that I can't quite figure out. I'm hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction with some solutions on where to start looking.  I created three simulations in Captivate 2019 (11.5.4.613 for Mac) that have tasks for quiz points (no negative points). All three simulations have the same quiz preferences for reporting, settings and pass or fail, and as you can see from the attached PDFs of Advanced Interactions, all the quiz questions have points and report to the total. Further, all three have the same settings in the LMS (Blackboard): unlimited attempts and a requirement of 80% to pass to further the tasks via adaptive release. The issue is that one of the simulations is not reporting 100% even if everything is done correctly. I have done this myself to test after a participant alerted me to the issue, and what's more, it wouldn't be a coincidence that everyone is getting 100%

Hello everyone, inside my Captivate 2019 project I have about 4-5 slides where a "fun fact" icon appears where the user can click on it and a text box pops up with a blurb about that fact. I need the user to stay on the same slide, and for them to be able to "x" out of the window as well. This seems so easy in concept yet I can't find any videos on it specifically. 

Hello all, I have a multiple correct custom knowledge check slide that I've created where more than one answer must be selected. I've created advanced actions where I only want the learner to have one attempt, once the question is answered I want the submit button to disappear and the next button to appear to continue to the next slide. Currently, it is doing the opposite where the next button is always there. I don't know where I am going wrong under advanced actions for the submit button to execute this action. This is what I have set up so far under the submit button:  Then if any of the incorrect answers are selected the action looks like the tab below for each of them: The correct answer is A and B and that action looks like this below:Then finally after the last attempt action is found below: I can't figure out where I am going wrong? Any help or insight is much appreciated :).   

Hi I am trying to open some Captivate files, which I created last year, before I upgraded my verions of Captivate. They take ages to load, but once they are loaded, Captivate tries to "Update Missing Fonts" and then freezes at 50%. The fonts are not missing from Adobe Creative cloud, so I have no idea what to do.Any suggestions?Regards

Last year, I recorded a simulation in Captivate. The resulting project was 1920 x 1080.  I published the video using SCORM 1.2 and posted it to our LMS, and it played perfectly. This year, I made a copy of the original and edited the file:Edited some of the audioAdded captions to all the slidesAdded javascript to the first slide to surpress the "x" on the caption boxesAdded Play/Pause/CC buttons (inserted images, applied "Use as Button", added Advanced Actions)  When I preview the project, it looks great, but when I publish it, I see issuesIf I publish as MP4, the last slide (image only) is missing from the MP4. The audio is there, but not the last slide image.If I publish as SCORM zip file and post the recording to our LMS, when it plays, the video is oversized (too big to fit in the browser window), so the outer edges are cut off. The original video did not have these issues. I'm not sure what went wrong during editing, but I need the video to publish and pla

Captivate 2019, 11.8, MacBook Pro, Ventura OS 13.2.1. Multiple Choice 'radio' buttons not being displayed on selection in a responsive project when published to HTML5.Created two projects,  one Blank Project, the other Responsive Project.Added a Question Slide, Mulitiple Choice default of 2 answers to both projects, no other selctions made.Radio buttons are selectable in both to assign correct answer.In Preview Project and Publish of Blank Project, radio buttons confirm selectionIn Preview Project and Publish of Responsive Project, radio buttons do not display to confirm selectionMy workaround is to build custom Mulitple Choice question slides 

HiI have to buttons inside my menu that when pressed show a submenu and pause the video. When the button for closing the submenu are pressed the video continue.A bit out on the timeline / the video I have several interactive elements that the user needs to take a stand on. Everything is custom made. When these interactive elements are presented I would like to prevent the video to keep playing if the user are navigating the menu. I was thinking of using a variable that change on a specifik frame using a onload script at the slide as showed below. 

Hi all,I have never used Captivate before, and trying to work it out. I'm trying to convert some PowerPoints to html5. When I import them as a project everything looks good, and is exactly how I want it:https://imgur.com/a/PQrECimHowever, once I actually preview the content, it seems to lose all formatting and ends up looking like this:https://imgur.com/a/w8oy2DEAgain, I've never used captivate, so I may just be missing something really obvious

I created an advanced action so that the next button on the slide would only appear if all of the buttons on the screen have been clicked.  Below is the screen shot of the action that was applied to all four buttons in question (edited for each button to which it was applied).   No problems so far.  But then I added an action to play audio.  I recorded a piece of audio in captivate, added a line in the "standard" tab of the advance action to play audio and selected the appropriate clip.  I changed nothing on the "show next" tab. Ever since I added that simple audio clip, now the conditional part of the advanced action stopped working.  After clicking all four buttons, the next button no longer appears.  I feel like the audio should not have affected the other parts of the action, but I'm still very much a novice user of Captivate.  Did I mess up my advance action or is this something that Captivate is messing up?  Thank y

Hi, I'm building my own subtitles/CC with JS, but something messes up. When I spread the subtitle objects (smart shapes) along the time line, the code below cannot cope with objects that are not appearing on the moment the a self made subtitle on/off buton has been clicked. So how can I bypass the CP CSS visibility? $('[id^="Subtitle"]').each(function( index ){if($( this ).css('visibility') ==='visible')cp.hide(this.id)else cp.show(this.id);}); /Jacob

HiI found the solution for this problem earlier but cant find it again so I will ask here:)I have created a slide out/in menu with the scripts below.They work as they should but only once. The first script are on a hamburger menu that slide the menu in to the right. The last are an X button inside a group that slide the menu out to the left.This work only once.  Could anyone point me to the solution that I no more remember 🙂