Drag and Drop Failure Caption Timing

Question

I'm making a drag and drop interaction in Captivate for the first time and I'm struggling to make it behave in the way I'd like.

I'd like the failure caption to appear on screen after users click submit (have that so far), but I'd like it to stay on screen and give users control over how/when to close it. So far I can get it to show up, and I can extend the time that it shows, but I can't figure out a way to give users control over closing/hiding it. I tried adding a button that would close it, but the failure caption doesn't appear in the dropdown of the shapes on the page.

How do you all handle this when you use drag and drop interactions?

Lilybiri · Accepted Answer

Failure caption like all feedback captions are linked with the interactive object, you don't have full control over them like over objects with a separate timeline. Those feedback messages do not have a separate timeline.

You could circumvent this by not using the Failure caption, but the Failure action to show a previously hidden text container with close button. Be sure that the close button has a pausing point, later than the pause of the D&D (Default is 1.5secs).

Which version do you use? It helps if you tell that when posting a question. States have been added to D&D in Captivate 9. Here are some articles I wrote with tips for D&D:

Drag&Drop tips - Captivate blog

Drag&Drop in 2016 with Captivate 9 - Captivate blog

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