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February 24, 2022
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Captivate 2019 Pause slide and then user clicks playbar or button to go to next slide or branchings

  • February 24, 2022
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Good Afternoon,

I have developed a Captivate training module.  I have all the slides completed.   I want to pause each slide.   Then,  the user would  be able to click to go the next slide or branch.  This seems as if it should be straight forward but is not working.

I have searched for a solution but, obviously, have not found one.

Thank you for assistance.

Peg

 

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    mark@headTrixCommunity Expert
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    March 5, 2022

    You can simply add a Button Under Interactions>Button, then you can change the text or change it to an Image button in the Properties panel. The Action will be set to "Go to the Next Slide" by default, and under timing you can select the checkbox "Pause After" just make sure the pause is at the end of your timeline or else it will stop midway. You can also just have it show. up at the end forcing the use to watch the entire slide.  Once you place your first button, you can then copy that button, then select ALL of your slides in the Filmstrip, and paste. (Ctrl +V) to place the button on all of the slides. You may still have to tweak where the button will pause on each slide. There is also a way to add a button to your master slide which would then work across all slides. But... this will be a good place to start.

     

    Hope this helps!
    mark

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    March 5, 2022

    @mark@headTrix Sorry, but there are some typos (?) or missing info in your answer.

    1. You are referring to the old button types, the only ones found under the Buttons option in Interactions. None of those buttons can ever be used on a master slide. Only the new ones: shape button, bitmap image used as button (which is not the same as an Image button) and SVG used as button can be used on the Master slide. 

    2. OP just wanted to have slide paused, not an extra button on the slides. That means you need to make the 'button' on the slide invisible, which is only possible for the Transparent button.

    3. If this is a non-responsive project, a better idea in your slide per slide workflow would have been to insert a Click box on each slide. If you set the default to time for the rest of the slide, you don't need to 'tweak' it because a click box always pauses at the end of its timeline, contrary to a default button. 

    4. A button is not pausing by default midway, but at 1.5secs. If the slide has no staggered objects on the timeline it is not important to change that timing.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 24, 2022

    You don't explain exactly what you did to pause the slide and what is not working. That makes it difficult to help.

    There are a couple of ways to pause each slide:

    1. Add a shape button to the main master slide. You can make it invisible to the learner by set both Alpha for the Fill and stroke width to 0. Set the action for that shape button to 'No action', since you want the learner to use the Next button on the playbar. This setup will pause each slide at its end, whatever the duration.
    2.  Add the command 'Pause' to the On Exit event of each slide.
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