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rhybeka32
Inspiring
June 18, 2013
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Captivate 6 - setting items visible at end of course?

  • June 18, 2013
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Hi all!

  I'm sure this is something simple, but I can't seem to find it in the forum anywhere. I'm trying to work around the TOC issue when a project reloads that you can't just revisit any slide.  I've noticed when I relaunch my project from our LMS, the advanced actions do not fire the second time through to make some hidden text boxes visible. I'm making an assumption that there is some kind of advanced action or javascript or something that I can put on the next to last button to make all text boxes visible or reset the advanced actions/variables so if or when the learner goes back through the course, they will see all of the text on the slide.  If someone could point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated!

Becky

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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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June 18, 2013

If your project file has user variables and advanced actions set up, they may set up to be initialised by the user visiting one of the earlier slides in the project.  If your LMS bookmarking causes the user to bypass these slides and jump straight to a later slide to resume playback, this may result in the user variables NOT being initialised properly. 

It's not really possible to tell you how to get this functionality working properly without knowing exactly how it's currently set up.  There's not really any 'magic button' you can click to do this.  You need to get in under the hood and work out what the variables and actions are doing so that you can work around this bookmarking issue. 

Alternatively, since you can never be sure exactly which slide users will resume on, you could just disable bookmarking altogether so that the user always starts from the beginning again.

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rhybeka32Author
Inspiring
June 18, 2013

Hi Rod!

It's not so much the bookmarking I'm worried about. The advanced actions I have set up unhide text captions on the screen when the user clicks the next button, and then advance the slide to the next when all of the text is visible. Nothing terribly complicated.

it sounded like from other posts on the forum it is a known issue between the TOC and LMS not functioning properly when a user revisits the course.  Our LMS team requires bookmarking in all courses. I thought about removing the TOC since it's not really usable the second time around ( I don't want them being able to skip to the last slide the first time), but there may be instances where users want to use it in their first time through so it stays.

I'd just like to make sure if users are using the next/previous buttons on the slides the second time through the course, they will see all of the text. In my test, the text remained hidden - all the next button did was advance the slide the second time through. So my assumption is I need to include an advanced action on the next to last slide to clear all of the variables back to 1 so they will advance, or just make every text box visible once the last slide viewed value gets to the last slide of my course.  Does that make more sense?

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rhybeka32Author
Inspiring
June 19, 2013

well, i found Lilybiri's blog post on grouping items in Cap6, so I'm giving this a shot and grouping all of the non visible items on their slides together so I can write an advanced action that will set them all as active or visible on the last next button. my main concern is if this will still carry over in the review of the module.  Guess I'll find out!

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