Captivate Project not playing from first slide.

It's a bit of laziness on my part as well to be honest.  I have not taken the time to use a lot of the features in the last couple of releases.  I use captivate hot and heavy for 3 months and then not at all for 6 months, and that is the cycle for me (Kind of like my participation on this forum, can you tell I am in a 3 month hot and heavy cycle )

1. I don't use master slides in general, and if I do I like being able to change the action on each slide.  I often use this for forward and back buttons, but sometimes forward and back is not linear in the content I create so having individual click box allows me complete control over each one.

2. I never use captivate for quizzes

3. I will agree this would be handy some times, although if I need to repeat on all slide captivate has a nifty global paste which I use frequently

4. Not using 2017 yet.

It is just more straight forward for me, and have always been 100% predictable with use on tablet, which is 95% of what I create and tablet has no use for up, down, over state as desktop does. Totally just personal preference, not necessarily the right way, just my way   In the end probably not great reasons, just what I taught myself on and what I am most comfortable using.

1 question, 2 statements

Question - Do you want these states to remain only for that user session or do you want them to be there whenever the user returns to the learning?   If the latter is the case we would need to use a bit of javascript for local storage.

Statement 1 - looking a the project the only button that you are acting on is the first one which is named 'ConfigurationWatchBtn' that is what your font advanced action is changing the state of for all 3 buttons.  Your second and 3rd buttons are named 'ConfigurationCustomizationBtn_7' and 'Button_11'...if you went into actions for each button and made a copy of the font script you have now (name it something different) and change the ChangeStateof to these names it should work.  Make sure that once you update the new actions that those are the ones assigned to that button...You would think captivate would do this dynamically when you edit the action, but it doesn't so make sure Execute Advanced actions is executing the right script for each button.

Statement 2 - This is how I would accomplish this as I have a dislike for buttons.  I don't ever use buttons, I always use click boxes (just personal preference, and more straight forward to me).  I would have a Watch me green box(uncompleted state) and and watch me blue box (completed state) right on top of each other.  Making sure that the completed state is on top in the timeline, and also marked invisible in the properties.  (The little eyeball up top next to object name has a red hash through it).   Finally lay your click box over the top of both boxes (again making sure the click box is on top).  When the user taps click box that is laid over it triggers an advanced action to 'show' completed state box.  You could also 'hide' the incomplete state box but as long as the completed box is on top there is really no need.   This would be repeated for each of the 3 and then you could jump to the appropriate slide.

Just clicking it would make this happen, so let's look at the 102 way of doing this.  Lets say for try me, they need to complete 4 slides before we are going to show this action is complete(no slackers here).  Create a captivate variable called tryme_complete, after the user has completed what you want them to view assign the tryme_complete variable with 1.  Then on entry of that slide that has watch me, try me etc put in a conditional advanced action that say if tryme_complete =1 'show' completed state button for try me.

Let me know if that helps, if you are stuck I could slap something together as an example and post for you.

Hope this helps!

Brian

Sorry, I don't download projects for unknown people. But I see that you talk about 'template'. Is this a cptl-file? There are quite a lot of issues with templates at this moment. You should also mention which version (exact number) you are using.

The issue you mention sounds very, very weird. In all the years I am answering questions daily I cannot remember having seen this problem.