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Cleon_G
Cleon_G
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July 11, 2014
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Collaboration with Captivate 8

  • July 11, 2014
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How can multiple people on a team work on a project using one Captivate 8 file in a virtual setting? Hopefully the experience is like making content on a SAAS eLearning system like Litmos Author, Administrate or Grovo. I am investing new ways for my team to build eLearning. Any help would be great.

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    Cleon_G
    Cleon_GAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 11, 2014

    What is this collaborate feature with the people icon? How does it work?

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    July 11, 2014

    Hello again

    Here's how it works. You "collaborate" by "sending the project for review". This will create a special file with a CREV file extension. Once you do this, you need to "freeze" the project and make no changes to it whatsoever until the review cycle is complete.

    You then send it to your folks that should review the content. Those folks won't need Captivate installed, but they WILL need to have Adobe AIR installed. Got AIR installed? Cool. Now you have to ask them to install the Adobe Reviewer application. Got that installed? Cool. Now you have to use the Adobe Reviewer application to open the CREV file you created earlier.

    Oh yeah, I should also mention that the Reviewer application will not function unless your users run it using Administrative mode.

    Assuming all that is in place, they then watch and interact with the Captivate and make notes here and there. Once finished, you then import the comments back into the project.

    Happy Reviewing! Rick

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    July 11, 2014

    Hi there

    From what you are asking you seem to be wanting a situation where more than one person can be making edits to a Captivate presentation at the same time, no?

    Unfortunately, this won't be possible. The only way I can fathom it would be to have one project on a central location. Have each participant copy the project to their own PC and make edits. And make sure that perhaps one person only works on say slides 1-50. The second works on slides 51-100. And the next works only on slides 101-150. Then each person would save a copy of the original back to the network. A "master" person would then copy and open all the different projects, carefully copying the modified slides and pasting all of them into the main project.

    Naturally, this situation is rife with potential pitfalls...

    Cheers... Rick

      Cleon_G
      Cleon_GAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      July 11, 2014

      Rick,

      Are you talking about a SVN set up? Or are you talking about a system where there is a Check-in and Check-out process similar to what is offered in Dreamweaver?

      Cleon

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