Custom TOC (Non-Linear) Advanced Actions - A better way?

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Hello,

I am new to Captivate and have made starting out difficult for myself by creating a custom table of contents with progress indicators that learners can navigate through in a non-linear way.

I have designed a custom show/hide pop out TOC with a series of buttons for navigation to each potential module. I have given each module button a custom Completed state, and am also using the built-in Visted state as part of my AA's.

I want to have the state of the Module button in the TOC change to Completed (Green) when all of the slides in that module have been viewed. Because I want this course to be non-linear, the state of the Module button needs to change to Completed, irrespective of what order the slides are viewed in. For example, someone could start off in Mod 1, skip to Mod 2, then use the back buttons or sub-menu to return to Mod 1slides.

I have managed to set this up, but only by creating a variable for EVERY slide and executing a Conditional Action On Enter that specifies that IF Slide 1 AND Slide 2 AND Slide 3 AND Slide 4...etc. are equal to TRUE, the state of the Module button changes to Completed. This works, but it is extremely tedious to set up, so ideally I am looking for a faster approach.

Is there a system or user variable I can create to calculate the total number of slides viewed? How is this possible without re-counting a slide that has already been viewed? FYI - I am allowing users to resume from where they left off from my LMS.

I have a few other ideas going round in my head of how else I might be able to get this to work, but I would appreciate it if someone could tell me of a better way of setting this up before I waste too much time on this!

Thanks,

Reuben

Lilybiri · Answer

There is no system variable for the slides viewed. User variable is possible, but means you have to use actions to give it a value.

I have a couple of blog posts about creating a % viewed in a non-linear project. Not exactly what you need, but could be inspiring maybe?

http://blog.lilybiri.com/percentage-progress-indicator-non-linear-course-solution-1

http://blog.lilybiri.com/percentage-progress-indicator-non-linear-course-solution-2

Since you have already a user variable for each slide, you should use another type of shared action in which you use a counter variable. Use the On Enter actoin of the slide to increment the user variable, increment the counter variable only when the slide variable is equal to1. That way you have only the counter variable to check. I use that approach a lot because I prefer shared actions over advanced actions fro several reasons. In one of the demo projects I used during my presentation at the Adobe eLearning World conference I used that approach. It has been explained more in dettail in a blog (had no time during the presentation);

http://blog.lilybiri.com/tips-and-tricks-advanced-to-shared-action-intermediate

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