Advanced actions and variables to turn on a next button

Question

Working in Captivate 9) I have set up 10 smart shapes as button as you click each one it displays information (which is a text caption or scrolling text widget hidden in the properties). I want to display a next button after the student has clicked and viewed each piece of information. I created a set of 10 user variables and assigned them all a value of 0. Then set up an advanced action for each button which showed and hid the information I wanted to display for each button. (simple stuff) I also added an increment action to each which incremented the appropriate variable by 1. Then set up a conditional action which ran on page entry which contained all conditions true, then each of the variables 1-10 equal to or greater than 1, show next button , which was on the page but hidden in the properties. It all seems straight forward I can get it to work if I set up a test with a couple of buttons on a page etc. But in my project the button doesn't display. Any suggestions.

I have set an on exit advanced action on the previous page to hide the play bar and lock the TOC so students cannot navigate away until they have viewed all the information. Ideally I would like to set this action up on the page with the buttons but as I wish to run the display next button Action I cannot (Again any suggestions)

Lilybiri · Accepted Answer

The On Enter action will not be executed, that is your misunderstanding. You need a conditional advanced action for each shape button. It is not possible to use a shared action because of double use of variables. Do not increment the user variable, but assign 1 is also a better solution, makes the condition less complicated. I have posted this solution multiple times on this forum, but here is another try:

Conditional action SB_OneAct needs two decisions:

First decision 'Always' is a mimicked standard action:

IF 1 is equal to 1 always true so all commands will always be done

Assign v_one with 1 where v_one is the Boolean user variable associated with first shape button

Hide Gr_Info where Gr_Info is the group with all the information boxes/widgets for all buttons

Show Info _one Info_one is the information for this button

Second decision 'CheckVars'

IF v_one is equal to 1 AND

v_two is equal to 1 AND....

v_ten is equal to 1

Show Bt_Next

Enable Bt_Next only necessary for HTML output and shape button

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