Adobe Captivate HTML5 posting Results to web server and using ASP.NET?

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HiIm evaluating Adobe Captivate to use within a website.I wondered if someone could let me know if the following is possible.Create a Test using Adobe Captivate and export as HTML5.Embed the HTML5 Test via an Iframe within a website.Once the user finishes the test the results are stored somewhere on the sever?Extract those results whether it be a direct DB insert or an XML file I can parse into the DB?Im using ASP.NET, are there any API's I can hook into to get more detailed results or are they stored within an XML file locally?Ive looked at the Internal Server Reporting. I assume this posts the results to the web server? embedding the HTML index page within a website will this post to its relative path? Can you stipulate where it send the results data?If anyone could shed some light on the above I would be most grateful.Kind RegardsNeil.

Jim Leichliter · Answer

The internal server reporting uses PHP to dump xml files to the server. The bad part about that is you have to have a directory on your server with write access... not very secure.

I wrote a widget that dumps quiz results into a google spreadsheet. I've also used ASP.NET to capture results in a database. Here's also another approach: Automatically send quiz data from Captivate >> free download

I've approached this a number of ways, but the easiest in my opinion is to use a Cp button to launch a URL with URL parameters (your quiz data). An ASP.NET or PHP file would receive those parameters and store them in a database of your choice.

The other approach is to store quiz data in a JSON object and do a form submit to an ASP.NET page. The ASP.NET page would then parse the JSON object and store the data in a database and/or send an email.

Many ways to accomplish this depending on your requirements. All of this requires custom coding which sounds like you know how to do.

Best,

Jim Leichliter

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