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Branching and Conditional Slides

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May 5, 2017
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I am creating a presentation where I only want a slide to be seen if someone answers a questions incorrectly. I created an action to jump to the slide, if the question is answered incorrectly. However, the slide is still showing in the course. How do I hide the slide otherwise, so it only shows if the question is answered incorrectly.

Also, I have navigation buttons for each slide. However, when I render there is still a times presentation. How do I make the presentation click through only?

I am a newbie, and would appreciate the help.

Kathleen

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andrayagoodwin1127

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Hello!

You have asked such a great question, I had this question myself and it literally took me alllll day to figure out the solution.

This is a hefty answer but what basically happens is that upon each " Optional Slide" Captivate has to determine if it should be viewed or skipped over and this is based on the corresponding Variables, Advanced Actions, and Conditional Advanced Actions. See my directions below for more details:

1: On your quiz results slide Do not use the default submit button. Instead, Insert a smart shape

2: On success of the smart shape choose Go to next slide

3: Place your Optional Slides (the slides the learner will be directed to if they answer incorrectly) under the Quiz Results slide on the Film Strip

4: Now its time to create variables: for each question create a variable and set its initial value to zero.

5: Then, create an Advanced Action for each variable and Assign each variable to a literal value of one

6: Go through each question slide and in the Quiz Inspector (making sure the "infinite attempts" is not checked), for the "Last Attempt" action, select Execute Advanced Actions and in the drop-down menu assign the corresponding Advanced Action for that Question. (I find it helpful to name these Advanced Actions "Q#Incorrect" so that it is easier to match them at this step)

7: Next, Go back into Advanced Actions and create a Conditional Advanced Action for each of the Optional Slides (I used these slides as a mandatory way for the learner to review the material that they missed on the quiz and named them "Q#Review").

8: The Conditional Script looks like:

If:

Q1 is equal to 1

Action:

Continue

Else:

Go to next slide

9: After creating Conditional Advanced Actions for each Optional Slide, go to each slide and with only the slide selected (none of the slide contents), on the Properties Inspector, for the "On Enter" action, assign the corresponding Conditional Advanced Action to the slide.

10: Finally!! Preview your project!

I hope this was helpful! I literally screamed out loud when I finally got the project to behave correctly!

Happy Developing!

Andraya

OzBassist

Inspiring

Andraya, that's certainly going to be a lot easier than working using a visual approach!

However, I have a couple of other ideas that might be useful:

First off, some facts:

Elements may be hidden and shown programatically.

These elements can have actions assigned to them.

So you could stack buttons with various actions assigned to them and either show/hide them based on a conditional action.

So rather than building the destination slide or action into the conditional, just show/hide the button instead.

Gives you much greater flexibility.

Personally, I wouldn't bother with Advanced Actions - I find them far to cumbersome and laborious to update - my preference is to use Javascript for all of this.

Allows you to fully control all elements on a slide, control navigation, and keep track of all variables and so much more, including importing variable data like JSON.
But you'd need to learn Javascript and JQuery to get the best out of it.
It's maybe a bit hardcore, but it's worth the effort.
I have a few tutorials here if you're interested: https://www.jrdesign.com.au/category/tips-and-tricks/captivate/

Lilybiri

Legend

Sorry to disagree that JS and JQuery is compulsory. Although I have a long career of programming in many languages, the way to go for intermediate Captivate users is with the core features of Captivate, and Shared or Advanced actions.

Most of my clients can understand how to use Shared actions, and enter values for the Parameters, some even how to edit Advanced actions, with some training. If I use JS, they'll have to get back to me each time they need to change anything.

JS is great if you are working in a company and don't have to deal with different clients and situations. Not ideal for my situation as freelancer. I use JS but only when Captivate cannot realize what I want to do.

Secondly: I often see here on the forums that the JS experts skip all new features because they can do everything with JS. I have seen very complicated scripts deployed here, which no intermediate user understand, for a functionality which can be activated by checking one checkbox in Captivate. Example: ignoring that Captivate has a Visited InBuilt state for buttons.

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kathleenh15616772Author

Participating Frequently

Here is a better shot. I don't know how to keep it to stay on the slide until the questions have been answered. Otherwise, someone can just click through the whole presentation.

Lilybiri

Legend

Give both click boxes a pausing point back, not at the end of the slide, but maybe at 1 sec.

Let the timeline of the Next button start at 1 sec, maybe its pausing point at 1 sec.

For the correct click box, choose Continue as action. If the user clicks that box, the playhead will be released, and the Next button becomes visible. It is not necessary for the wrong click box since that has a Jump to action.

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kathleenh15616772Author

Participating Frequently

Can I just remove the next button and add an action that would prevent the slide from continuing until a selection is made?

Lilybiri

Legend

Newbie to Captivate? Have a look at this article: Challenges for Starters - Captivate blog

You will read that the Timeline is the most essential part of Captivate. Explain what you exactly mean by 'a times presentation'? Maybe post a screenshot.

If you want some slides not to be shown to users, depending on conditions, you have to control the navigation totally, don't use a playbar at all. As I answered in your double posting: all slides that you want eventually to be shown to the learner, have to be present in the filmstrip and visible before publishing. How did you set up the condition, which event did you use? For a correct answer, you'll have to skip the slide that you only want to show in case of an incorrect answer. This also means you don't allow a normal Back button on the following slide, but the Back button needs also a conditional action.

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kathleenh15616772Author

Participating Frequently

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback. I have provided a snapshot of an example slide. I created a jump to navigation, and it works well. However,

I don't want the slide to show in the course otherwise. How do I accomplish this?

Lilybiri

Legend

The Next button should have the command 'Jump to Slide 6'. If the user has answered correctly, he remains on the slide, will use the Next button and go to Slide 6. If the user answered incorrectly he is navigated to slide 5 and after that slide will go to Slide 6 as well I suppose?

I cannot see the timeline very well: when is that slide pausing? I see one click box without a pausing point.

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