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June 5, 2017
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Creating a library of standard slides

  • June 5, 2017
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Hi All,

I am about to embark on a series of projects and prior to beginning I want to build up a catalogue of standard slides I can just pick up and drop in to my projects as needed. I have developed a slide with a question, four shapes that act as buttons and loads of logic that applies a state to the clicked button and reverts state for the other three buttons. It then works out if the correct answer has been chosen and shows a success or failure message.

Now I probably put a couple of hours in to building that slide and could do with keeping it in a place with all its design and logic and being able to just bring it in to any other project at a later date and just amending things like the question text, answers, and response text as that would be much quicker than building from scratch each time.

I am new to Captivate being a .net coder by trade so don't know the ins and outs of the package.

any help greatly appreciated.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    June 5, 2017

    Each Captivate project is theme-based. A theme has multiple components: theme colors palette, all object styles, master slides, skin and Recording defaults. Setting up a custom theme could help you already a long way, since a theme if well designed is not necessary a fixed resolution thing. Be careful with questions: are you sure not to use all the quiz features that are built in Captivate and use 5 out of the necessary 6 master slides needed as a minimum in each theme. It is NOT possible to create a project without a theme, and themes can be responsive or not, based on Fluid Boxes work flow or Breakpoint view in case of responsive projects.

    Personally I don't recommend using templates because they have issues. Look at this article which I wrote a while ago, most is valid though I didn't mention the Fluid boxes since they didn't exist at that moment.

    What's in a Theme - a Template? - Captivate blog

    The Library in Captivate is a very powerful tool, but it will NOT store slides. It can have assets: bitmap images, audio clips, SVG's, videos, shared actions. You can open any library as an external library. But from your question I detect that your first goal should be custom theme(s).


    BTW recently I wrote an article for starters with Captivate, based on my lyears ong experience as Captivate consultant and trainer: what are the stumbling blocks:

    Challenges for Starters - Captivate blog

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