Countdown Timer Widget and Hiding it on second slide visit , but need to lock it down
Hello everyone, first post here and I am a newbie Captivate developer working on my first project. I have an issue that I need some help with.
Utilizing the timer widget to countdown and force the amount of time the user needs to spend on each slide:
- My client wanted to control the minimum amount of time that the user spends on each slide so I have a timer widget on each slide that has it’s duration set (ranging from 5 seconds to 60 seconds). User cannot go forward until they spend that duration on each slide.
- RIGHT/FORWARD Arrow to continue to next slide appears as the countdown timer widget disappears (this happens at .2 seconds before the end of the slide duration). There is a pause set at .2 on the Right arrow.
- Left/BACK Arrow is always “active”
- Issue 1 – (SOLVED) if user goes back 1 slide, the user needs to sit through the timer count down again. I add a variable and an advanced action to mark the slide as visited which will hide the timer widget and show the RIGHT/FORWARD arrow.
- Issue 2 - (NEED SOLUTION) If user goes back and then forward they wouldn’t have to “wait” for the timer to count down. I need to account for them going back and then forward quick and they would get around the time they have to spend on each slide.
I have to implement this on almost 400 “slides” over 8 modules that are already mostly done. I need to backtrack and implement and my deadline is next week. Looking for a solution to handle the back/forth/timer issue and the easier to implement. It looks like any sort of Master slide setup is out. Should I be doing a frame count check and making sure they can't go ahead until they spend the duration in the timer widget, but I am not sure I can interact wiht the widget in that way to update it's duration. Seems like all this would be possible with JS. Any help is appreciated.
Mike
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