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Cloudshite5
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December 18, 2017
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Captivate Drag and Drop (advanced actions)

  • December 18, 2017
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I'd appreciate some ideas on how to make my drag and drop interaction work.

Background:

  1. 8 buttons appear on a screen > each buttons displays a group with 3 drag sources. (Each button's selection is ranked as low, mid, high)
  2. User must choose 3 buttons and select the best option.
  3. Feedback screen shows their selection with a ranking as low, mid, high. Since the there are many outcomes a user can create, I had to create a 3 copies of each feedback and used standard advanced actions to display feedback in an area on the screen depending on which drop target they dragged to.

Issue: On the drag-and-drop page, expanded groups overlap. I can't do "hide X group" because it hides any dragged sources from the target area. I played around with assigning variables as 0 for each target source and once it's dragged assigning it as 1. If it's assigned 1 it displays... I might not be setting it up correctly or it might not work.

TL:DF: Is there any way to set up conditional actions (or any other solution) to hide a group of drop source items but not hide a drop source that has been dragged to a drop target?

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Object Actions - standard actions

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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December 19, 2017

I tried to understand the problem, but don't see it really. My suspicion is that you are trying to do something with Drag&Drop slides that is beyond its design. Overlapping objects (drag sources or drop targets) is something that should be avoided.  I don't say it is impossible, because I don't understand everything. Does this have to be with D&D? Another approach would offer you a lot more control, than trying to squeeze this in the D&D design. Like with question slides, the possibilities to tweak that design are limited. Maybe splitting this scenario up in more than one D&D slide is possible as well?

Did you explore the InBuilt states for the D&D objects? Just another idea.

Built in States for Drag&Drop objects | eLearning

Stagprime2687219
Stagprime2687219
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December 18, 2017

Well, the very first thing that comes to mind is that, if I understand correctly, then variables might be the way to go.

If hiding the remainder of the group also hides the selected answer the learner has drug across, you might try making some actions to hide the individual elements.

Something along these lines...?

Hide 'container' (never gets drug and therefore does not need a variable)

If choice1=0 hide choice1

If choice2=0 hide choice2

If choice3=0 hide choice3

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