Captivate 7 Checkboxes, variables and advanced actions

Hi

I am relatively new to Captivate and wanted to find out whether the following if possible. I am using Captivate 7. I need to create a self-assessment tool (using slides, variables and advanced actions) which will give a user a score at the end.

The self-assessment needs to calculate what score a user will get against various levels. I need to use Checkboxes. I am a bit stuck with the solution, although it feels that it should be quite straight forward. Probably better illustrated with an example

Project variables

• L1, L2 – these will store the values selected by user in the Checklist. I’ve assigned the values for these variables as follows: L1=a, L2=b
• ScoreL1, ScoreL2  – these will be assigned with a particular value based on the values selected for L1, L3

Slide

• To contain a Checkbox with 3 variables and text: L1 = a, L2 = b

Advanced Action

• If L1 is equal to a, Assign ScoreL1 with 1, else Assign ScoreL1 with 0

Unfortunately, this Advanced Action doesn’t behave the way I want it to – it always returns 1 for  ScoreL1, whether L1 checkbox is ticked or not.

I am probably doing something wrong or omitting some vital detail, so grateful if somebody could help

Many thanks in advance

Elena