I created custom closed captioining with an advanced action and it worked properly.Upon start the CC would not show. If learner wanted to view CC and clicked button it would show. Then I added and removed the Captivate Menu/ Table of Contents.From there the CC starts automatically and I can not get it to hide upon start of course, like above. I tried to copy and paste the entrire cousre into a blank course.Though the course copied over, the problem remained.Maybe someone here can see something I am not doing correctly.Advanced action uploaded (please ignore that the tab is called mute/ unmute).Thanks in advance!

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Elizabeth287936905rt6

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Custom Closed Captioning - Starting Automatically

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March 9, 2023
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I created custom closed captioining with an advanced action and it worked properly.
Upon start the CC would not show. If learner wanted to view CC and clicked button it would show.
Then I added and removed the Captivate Menu/ Table of Contents.
From there the CC starts automatically and I can not get it to hide upon start of course, like above.
I tried to copy and paste the entrire cousre into a blank course.
Though the course copied over, the problem remained.

Maybe someone here can see something I am not doing correctly.

Advanced action uploaded (please ignore that the tab is called mute/ unmute).

Thanks in advance!

Captivate_CC_AutoStart.docx

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Correct answer Elizabeth287936905rt6

This past post showed up on me feed.
I tried it but assigned 0 instead of 1.
It worked!!!
https://community.adobe.com/t5/captivate-discussions/cpt-9-closed-captioning-enabled-by-default/td-p/8539387

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Elizabeth287936905rt6AuthorCorrect answer

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This past post showed up on me feed.
I tried it but assigned 0 instead of 1.
It worked!!!
https://community.adobe.com/t5/captivate-discussions/cpt-9-closed-captioning-enabled-by-default/td-p/8539387

Lilybiri

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OK, that was an answer I posted a long time ago.

I suspect you wanted to have a toggle button? That was not very clear from the description. Maybe have a look at this blog post, where I recommend to use a shared action which can be used for many types of toggle buttons:

https://blog.lilybiri.com/1-action-equals-5-toggle-buttons

A more recent version of this blog is to be found on the eLearning community:

Multiple Toggle buttons with ONE Shared Action - eLearning (adobe.com)

When using a system variable, it is important to check what the default value is. For cpCmndCC it is 0: