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Participant
September 15, 2011
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Accessing SharePoint from Captivate 5

  • September 15, 2011
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I'm building an interactive program in Captivate 5 in which I'd like for the learner to go out to a SharePoint discussion board and leave comments and then return to where they were in the Captivate program. Is there a way to do this?

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Participant
September 15, 2011

Thanks, Rod and Jim. It sounds like it will be easier than I expected -- which is a good thing! I appreciate your help.

Legend
September 15, 2011

In addition to what Rod stated, you can also use the Web Page Widget so that users can do this without even leaving your Captivate course.

http://captivatedev.com/2010/11/05/adobe-captivate-5-web-page-widget/

Jim Leichliter

RodWard
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Community Expert
September 15, 2011

The user needs to open a separate window to add the comments to the Sharepoint site.  If you open another URL in the same window as the Captivate content is playing, you'll likely have problems getting the user back to the same spot when you link back to it again because as far as Captivate is concerned you're starting a new session.

Just pause the Captivate content at the spot where you want them to open the new window (via a button or click box) as a new browser session.  Then after they've finished in the other window and close it, their Captivate session is still sitting there underneath and they can continue playing the content.