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visual_Zenith5FAA
Inspiring
March 10, 2023
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advanced actions not saving

  • March 10, 2023
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Hello! I am having issues with advanced actions not saving correctly. 

 

Here is what I input:

Then, i save it:

and then it deletes that variable as soon as i click ok. 

 

Anyone from adobe know whats going on???

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Correct answer Lilybiri

I wasn't trying to do that i was trying to do 2 actions to the same variable. Have it move (the effect) and have it increment by 1 as well to make other actions happen. So that shouldn't be the issue. 

 

i was talking  about just a blank project as well because text animations don't work in responsive projects so I was just using a blank (non-responsive) project. But anyways this is a message that comes up when previewing a blank (non-responsive) project:

it specifically states Images and SVG as buttons are not supported.


What you are showing is the dialog box which appears when you try to publish a non-responsive project to SWF. Please read the text. That dialog box never appears in responsive projects because they do not have the possibility to publish to SWF. It is also possible that you try to use a Preview method in a non-responsive project which is not valid for HTML output. Only valid Preview is F11, Preview HTML in Browser. That would be the case if you are not using the most recent version which is 11.8.1 because that version doesn't have Text Animations nor publish to SWF anymore. Moreover all the invalid Preview methods which used temporary SWF output have been taken out.

Know that I never answer a question without double-checking: I inserted a SVG as button in a fluid boxes project, and it works perfectly. Same for a PNG.

 

Maybe I was not clear enough about the AA problem:

  • The action is labeled Coin_1
  • The command 'Apply Effect' is used on an item with the same name Coin_1
  • I suspect that your variable has also the same name.

Each of those three items need a unique name. Names are case-sensitive, so changing a capital to a lower case character would be sufficient for one of them. If my suspicion is correct about the variable name, precede its name by v_ and use v_Coin_1

 

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visual_Zenith5FAAAuthor
Inspiring
March 10, 2023

UHH, NEVER MIND...

 

I just realized its because non-responsive doesn't support pictures as buttons. i was trying to use that to get the text animations but I guess that's not going to work. 

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
March 10, 2023

That is not the reason why your advanced action is not saving. The real reason is that you use the SAME name for the action and for a variable, which is unacceptable. Captivate is very strict: each name needs to be unique because it identifies the item. There seem to be some exceptions like states in multistate objects, but there the identifier is a combination of the object name + the state name.

 

Moreover it is perfectly possible to use an image or a SVG as a button in a responsive project. I don't know why you found that it is not possible.

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visual_Zenith5FAAAuthor
Inspiring
March 10, 2023

I wasn't trying to do that i was trying to do 2 actions to the same variable. Have it move (the effect) and have it increment by 1 as well to make other actions happen. So that shouldn't be the issue. 

 

i was talking  about just a blank project as well because text animations don't work in responsive projects so I was just using a blank (non-responsive) project. But anyways this is a message that comes up when previewing a blank (non-responsive) project:

it specifically states Images and SVG as buttons are not supported.

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