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August 14, 2007
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Captivate 3 Forces you to create a folder when Publishing a SWF

  • August 14, 2007
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I've just started using Captivate 3. I'm going in and making updates to a demo that consists of 8 Captivate Projects linked to one another. I originally created the demo in Captivate 2 and published all of the projects as SWF's. I published all of the projects into a folder titled "Publish". When I attempt to publish my updates from Captivate 3, I am forced to create a new directory with the title of my project. When I read through the help files for Publishing SWFs, it stated the following:

"In Folder, enter the full path for the folder in which to save the file or click Browse to locate the folder. A folder will be created with the same name as the title and all published files will be moved inside it. "

This is turning out to be a huge annoyance, particulalry when I just want to make quick updates to a project I have already created. Is there anyway to turn this feature off? It's very frustrating. I don't understand the logic of forcing users to make individual folders for each project they publish. And even more so, not making this an optional feature that can be turned on or off. If I am missing something or if anyone knows how to publish a project as an SWF without being forced to create a directory named after the project, please let me know. I know this was not the case with Captivate 2. Thank you for your time.
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Inspiring
August 17, 2007
Sorry Boys & Girls

I tend to do all my exports as exe, just tested an SWF and got same problem as you all. Seems like the issue is linked to the SWF publish format only and not exe. Weird!!

Andrew
Participant
August 15, 2007
Hey all,
Thanks for the quick response and thanks for commiserating. And Neophyte30, thanks for the work around. I'm typing up my bug report as we speak.
August 15, 2007
Doughfresh3,

I am the poster from the thread Captiv8r links to, and I ran into the same problem in doing the exact thing you're trying to do (publish separate captivate projects and have them link to each other). This is a pain in the ass when you want to set a link to "Open project", because if you link laterally across folders to another project, you then need to maintain that directory structure on the webserver (which I don't want to do - I have a single folder that will hold all of the projects).

Perhaps you've already found a way around this, but if not here is what I did:

  1. Publish all projects to their own folders (as you are required to do)
  2. Then take the main swf of the project being linked TO and copy it into the folder of the project you'll be linking FROM
  3. Open the project you're linking FROM and set your link to the project SWF you just moved
  4. Rinse and repeat.
    (Again, copy all SWF's you'll be linking to into the project folder where you'll be linking from and then open the "linking from" project and set the link to the SWF you just moved)
  5. After you're done linking, republish all files, and using windows explorer move all republished SWF files into the same folder. They will properly link to each other, now.

A bothersome task that takes time, but at least it works in the end.
Captiv8r
Legend
August 15, 2007
Hi all

I would encourage anyone that finds this behavior to be a bit, ummm, shall we say "lacking", to please submit a bug report via the following link: Click here.

Cheers and happy Wednesday all! Rick
August 16, 2007
Hi Rick,

I have added my vote to this; like many others, it is driving me nuts!

Warm regards,
Mark
Captiv8r
Legend
August 14, 2007
Hi dougfresh3 and welcome to our community

Your post sounds exactly like what was listed in this thread.

Indeed you are encountering a change with version 3 that I recall reporting as a potential issue. Very irritating, isn't it? I'm afraid the only way around it is to manually copy the new files to the common location. At least as far as I can tell.

Cheers... Rick