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JL_AM
JL_AM
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August 17, 2017
Question

Advanced Action adding effect and trying to display "Next" Button

  • August 17, 2017
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Hello,

I'm new to Captivate 2017 and are currently having a problem when trying to add an entrance Effect to a Group that is shown by means of an Advanced actions.

Ideally the Advanced action does 2 things:

     1.Shows and adds an entrance effect to a group of objects when a button is clicked

     2. Only shows the next button when the 4 buttons have been pressed

The problem arises when trying to add an Entrance effect the Group will not show if I click several times in a row I can see a glimpse of said group but it wont stay in view. If I remove the entrance effect the group and the next button(after clicking all 4 buttons) will show just fine 

I'm not sure if the problem is the order of the instructions or something else but I would really like to have the entrance effect

Here are the instructions I used

AA_1 AA_2

Thanks in advance

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JL_AM
JL_AMAuthor
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August 19, 2017

Lily thanks a lot for your input

I have found the problem, so to recap the initial problem was that when trying to use advanced actions to make a "Next" button appear after clicking 4 buttons and also add an Entrance effect for information that appears when said 4 buttons are clicked, the information wasn't displaying properly (effects didn't work or the display box with the information wouldn't show)

The issue was that the slide had an On Enter - Show -Caption (I must have absentmindedly put it in... I use the scroll wheel of my mouse a lot) so that was making the effects flicker in the back

And another thing that I did to make it work was in the Advanced Actions tabs I separated the actions at the Decision section so one tab of the decision is the conditional action that show the "Next" button and the other tab is the standard action that Shows the information and adds an Entrance effect

Hope someone finds this useful in the future

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
August 19, 2017

That would have been my suggestion, I always try to avoid putting the commands that have to be done anyway in a conditional action. Much better work flow.

Maybe next time for debugging, you could consult the Advanced Interaction panel (F9) to check which events are triggering actions?

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
August 17, 2017

Looks like you don't know how to use the Preview button in the Advanced Actions dialog box, much easier to read the whole action. Have a look at:

Advanced Actions Dialog box in Captivate 2017 - Captivate blog

Entrance effect EaseInLeft is a motion effect, and that can be tricky when used in an advanced action. What are the parameters for that path and can you post a screenshot of the timeline? In my experience I found it often better to use micronavigation for motion effects. Will try to test if I have all detalils.

JL_AM
JL_AMAuthor
Participating Frequently
August 17, 2017

First of all thanks for answering Lily, your posts and blog have been a great source of information

Here are the images of the preview of the Advanced action and the timeline, In advanced actions I'm not sure where to specify the path 

I came across a post you made in January where you talk about custom effects  https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2259438 , and I will try to set the path save it as custom effect and try to apply that with  Advanced actions to see if that works

Thanks a lot

Captivate AA PreviewCaptivate_timeline_2

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
August 17, 2017

Hmmm.... That item G_Cliente has also a time-based effect: what effect is that?

Parameters in the advanced actions (under the ellipsis) do not have the path. You have either to accept the default path (which exists for entrance effects) or create a custom effect.

Moreover this slide is paused by two buttons at 1,5sec. Which event do you use to trigger that conditional action?

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