Captivate 9: Button with 2 actions

For each button you need a separate conditional action following the pattern I gave before. Each button's action only assigns a value to the variable for that button (btn1_action says Assign 1 to v_btn1, btn2_action says Assign 1 to v_btn2, etc). The second decision tab tests all of the variables to see whether or not to show the NEXT button. You should not be assigning a value to more than one variable in any one action.

To make an advanced action

1. Choose Project -> Advanced Actions ...

2. Click the + button in the upper right corner of the window.

3. Make sure you select Conditional Action from the Action Type dropdown.

4. Create and save (Update) the action

5. Click the button you wish to use to trigger the action. (E.g. Button_1)

6. In the Properties tab, choose Actions (next to Style).

7. Choose Execute Advanced Actions from the On Success dropdown.

8. Choose your new action from the Script dropdown.

If you do not like using menus, you can start at step 5. After step 7, click the yellow folder icon next to the Script dropdown, then go back to step 2. You must still make sure you do step 8 - it is no good creating an action, but then forgetting to actually assign it to your button (the voice of experience is speaking here)!!

For the On Enter action:

Lilibiry's solution with another variable will work, but you will have to add a line to each  showNext? tab of each of the button advanced actions to make it work - Assign v_slideComplete (or whatever name you give the variable) with 1

OR, you can forget that step, forget making a variable for v_slideComplete, and just use the same conditions from the showNext? tab in your OnEnter conditional advanced action:

onEnter_action

IF v_btn1 = 1 AND v_btn2 = 1 AND v_btn3 = 1

THEN

show button_Next

Good luck!

To show the NEXT button only after all other required items have been clicked you'll need a variable for each item and a conditional action that can test all of those variables. When all of the variables say that all of the items have been clicked, the action will show the NEXT button - otherwise it will remain hidden.

Start by turning off visibility for the NEXT button by clicking the "eye" icon next to it's name in the Properties tab.

If I have 3 buttons that I want the user to click, I need to create the variables v_btn1, v_btn2, v_btn3 (or whatever makes sense to you). Assign each a value of 0 when you create them.

For each button, you need a conditional advanced action that will:

1. assign the value of that button's variable to 1 when clicked

2. do all of the things you want the button to do (show things, etc.)

3. in a second decision tab, test IF v_btn1 == 1 AND v_btn2 == 1 AND v_btn3 == 1, THEN show the NEXT button

As Lilibiry will say, if all of the buttons do similar things, a shared action can be very handy in this situation. She has written extensively on the use of shared actions. If you are unfamiliar or uncomfortable using shared actions, just stick with a separate advanced action for each button for now.

Set NEXT button visibility to hidden

Create variables

First tab of a conditional advanced action (I use Captivate 9 - Cap 2017 looks a little different). Add in all of the other things that the button-click will always do.

Second tab of the same action

The timeline - all pause points of the buttons are aligned. If you have audio or animations that take time, you might have to adjust the timing of the NEXT button.

Cheers!

First question: add the audio to the state. Watch this movie, the first automatic list has audio linked to each state:

http://www.lilybiri.com/published/Lists/index.html

For the Close button:

More is in a...hyperlink - Close button - Captivate blog