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quisqueyana
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June 30, 2013
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Button set to unlimited. Only does action twice. Why?

  • June 30, 2013
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I have a button in my training program set to unlimited attempts. It allows the user to click twice, yet it is set to unlimited. What am I missing?

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Correct answer RodWard

In Captivate, normal interactive objects such as click boxes and buttons on give you one event you can use to execute an action. So their success or failure captions only appear once.

There is an alternative using widgets.  The Event Handler widget from Infosemantics allows you to turn any object into a clickable object so that the click will trigger a success or failure criteria.  But unlike other interactive objects, it has preferences you can configure to Disable Continue (so that clicking the object does not release the timeline) and Reset Success Fail Criteria (so that the user can click the object and see the feedback captions or execute the programmed action as many times as they want).

More info about Event Handler here:

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/event-handler-interactive

Free trial version for download here:

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/download-free-trial-widgets

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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June 30, 2013

Hi there

What exactly is the button programmed to do when the user clicks it?

What does your Timeline look like?

Cheers... Rick

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quisqueyanaAuthor
Known Participant
June 30, 2013

It is programmed to show a Success caption. In the timeline below, the caption in red serves as the instructions but then they disappear, as you can see on the Timeline. I want the user to be able to see these instructions again if necessary so I made those instructions also a success caption that come up when the user clicks the "Instructions" button. Hope that makes sense.

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
June 30, 2013

In Captivate, normal interactive objects such as click boxes and buttons on give you one event you can use to execute an action. So their success or failure captions only appear once.

There is an alternative using widgets.  The Event Handler widget from Infosemantics allows you to turn any object into a clickable object so that the click will trigger a success or failure criteria.  But unlike other interactive objects, it has preferences you can configure to Disable Continue (so that clicking the object does not release the timeline) and Reset Success Fail Criteria (so that the user can click the object and see the feedback captions or execute the programmed action as many times as they want).

More info about Event Handler here:

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/event-handler-interactive

Free trial version for download here:

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/download-free-trial-widgets

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