I have been trying to find a way to create an interactive button in Captivate 5.5 that will allow the learner to exit my project. Today I came across the Rapid eLearning / Adobe Captivate Blog titled "Creating Custom Adobe Captivate 5 buttons". This question was asked and the response was that there is a workaround. Create a blank slide as the last slide and give it a duration of 0.1 sec. Set the action for the Quit button to Jump to slide and link it to the last slide. Click Edit > Preferences > Project > Start and EndFor the Project End Options, Select close this presentation.Has anyone done this and been successful? I've tried this and can't seem to make it work. Either nothing happens or for some reason it just advances my presentation to the next slide. I would really love any help I can get to make this work. Thanks.

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Creating a Quit Button

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April 20, 2012
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I have been trying to find a way to create an interactive button in Captivate 5.5 that will allow the learner to exit my project. Today I came across the Rapid eLearning / Adobe Captivate Blog titled "Creating Custom Adobe Captivate 5 buttons". This question was asked and the response was that there is a workaround.

Create a blank slide as the last slide and give it a duration of 0.1 sec.
Set the action for the Quit button to Jump to slide and link it to the last slide.
Click Edit > Preferences > Project > Start and End
For the Project End Options, Select close this presentation.

Has anyone done this and been successful? I've tried this and can't seem to make it work. Either nothing happens or for some reason it just advances my presentation to the next slide. I would really love any help I can get to make this work. Thanks.

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Anonymous

Can you assign JS to the button?

javascript:top.window.close();

Giddy_detail16B6Author

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Can you tell me how to do that and I'll give it a try. I'm using version 5.5

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Anonymous

Here's how I did mine.

On the last screen of my course I inserted a button. The button type is Text Button and the caption I chose was "Close". The caption is just what text you want to display on the button.
Under the action, On Success, I chose Execute Javascript.
Click the script window button.
Copy and paste this code: javascript:top.window.close();

That's it. You can publish and test it locally on your computer.

Tom_Tantalus

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How do you publish the project? Would it be an option to publish to PDF?

RodWard

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Can you show us a screenshot of the Properties > Actions accordion of the button?

Giddy_detail16B6Author

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Here are screen shots from the Actions accordion for the page with the button along with the Actions accordian from the last slide and the Properties window.