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training4me
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January 9, 2017
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Captivate Project Resizing - old widget issue

  • January 9, 2017
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Just thought I'd share this as it drove me crazy. When working on a Captivate 8 project, I was previewing in the browser and page one is a certain size (the correct size for the project) and centered, then page 2 jumped to the top left and a smaller size and it stayed that way through the end of the project. All the sizes were the same and there was nothing showing up that explained why it was changing location and size --- after some time spent troubleshooting to eliminate various items I found the culprit was an older widget for page numbering that was added to page 2 with "end of project" on it for timing. It has nothing showing that indicated size but that was the culprit. Once removed (replaced it with a variable on the master slide for page numbers) then it all worked perfectly again. Weird but true!

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Correct answer Lilybiri

That very old widget is not packed with Captivate since (if my memory is correct) at least 3 versions. Normally it is expected that you use only the widgets/learning interactions that are shipped with your version.

In case you need to have slide numbering, just insert the appropriate system variables (using the X button in the Character part) in a text container on the master slide, which will result in:

   Slide $$cpInfoCurrentSlide$$ of $$cpInfoSlideCount$$ slides

This will work in any project, no widget needed at all. Moreover you can style it fitting to the Theme that you are using.

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training4meAuthor
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January 10, 2017

Yes that's correct. We were upgrading a course from an older project. It was a widget that worked in v7 actually but as I mentioned I did the same thing that you recommended ... added a variable on the master for the page numbering and that took care of the issue. Just posted it in case anyone else runs into this as it was not obvious that was the issue. :-)  Thanks for adding the variable for folks. I just added "Page" instead of Slide in mine. :-) Thank you!

Lilybiri
LilybiriCorrect answer
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January 10, 2017

That very old widget is not packed with Captivate since (if my memory is correct) at least 3 versions. Normally it is expected that you use only the widgets/learning interactions that are shipped with your version.

In case you need to have slide numbering, just insert the appropriate system variables (using the X button in the Character part) in a text container on the master slide, which will result in:

   Slide $$cpInfoCurrentSlide$$ of $$cpInfoSlideCount$$ slides

This will work in any project, no widget needed at all. Moreover you can style it fitting to the Theme that you are using.

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