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AndyKingInOC
AndyKingInOC
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October 12, 2011
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Cp4 convert to Cp5/5.5 breaks on-success actions?

  • October 12, 2011
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Yesterday we had something critical come up where an activity was converted to Cp5, no other changes made, and the 'on success' actions on every quiz question (48 questions) broke.

The 'on success' we had was "increment" a user variable by a count of 1.  After being converted the increment did not happen.  To fix it, all I did was change the 'on success' to 'continue,' then changed it back to 'increment.'

While the fix was easy, it was time consuming to track down and now we're concerned this will happen every time we convert something up to Cp5.

Has anyone else experienced this or something similar?  Do you have any tips for consistent success on up-converting?

Thanks-

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AndyKingInOC
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October 17, 2011

As a follow up, we converted another Cp4 course to Cp5/5.5 and the 'on success' actions of 'Increment' broke.  That is, they did not increment although the quiz properties panel showed everything correctly.  Changing from 'increment' to 'continue' and back to 'increment' fixed the action.

I was hoping it would be a one-off occurance, but doesn't seem to be the case.

We also noticed that the placing of quiz question answers (multiple choice) was inconsistent.  They were nicely lined up and spaced in Cp4, and when converted were not so nicely spaced.  In Cp4 we'd have:

A) Answer 1

B) Answer 2

C) Answer 3

After converting we'd have:

A) Answer 1

B) Answer 2

C) Answer 3

Not a big deal but it took time to realign every question/answer.  When there are 45+ questions, it takes a while.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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October 12, 2011

Andy,

I'm puzzled easily, was this 'increment' action a simple action or embedded in an advanced action? Asking this because increment is no longer available as a statement in the Advanced actions UI in CP5. Perhaps it is linked with your issue?

Lilybiri

AndyKingInOC
AndyKingInOCAuthor
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October 12, 2011

Good morning lilybiri.

In the Quiz Properties panel, Action, On Success, near the bottom in the drop down Increment, another drop down shows all the user variables, then a field to enter the amount to imcrement.  Sorry, I can't attach screenshots,

Honestly I'd never used that before, this came to me from another developer - my task was to fix it, so I don't know any of the background.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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October 12, 2011

Late afternoon here.


Yes I know, that is what I call a 'simple' action, those that are available on events like the Success event for an interactive object that you describe, but also for other events.

Increment and Decrement are available there. But strangely, from CP5 on, those are no longer available in the Advanced Actions dialog box, in the dropdown list for statements whereas they were available in the (clumsy) dialog box in CP4. So really I was thinking 'aloud' that the fact that this action didn't translate when converted was linked with this change. But only the Adobe devs could confirm or revoke this.

Lilybiri

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