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markwatkins
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January 15, 2018
Question

Glossary widget no bueno

  • January 15, 2018
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Trying out the 08_Glossary.wdgt using Captivate 2017 (64 Bit). Published as HTML5 zip. Tested on SCORM-Cloud. One slide, no hide/show buttons or anything. It just doesn't appear. Is there a newer version or something for HTML5?

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lkc1
Known Participant
March 15, 2018

Today I learned - through trial and error -  that parentheses ( ) are not allowed in the terms part of the glossary widget - the glossary won't display...  Is there documentation somewhere that describes the parameters of the widgets - what it will and will not allow?  (Thank you!)

markwatkins
Known Participant
January 17, 2018

Ah ha! Rod, according to you over here, the wdgt file is just a renamed zip. So all the css is editable! Problem solved.

RodWard
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 18, 2018

Well done!  Hopefully modifying the CSS doesn't break anything else.

RodWard
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 16, 2018

Yes your issue with the Glossary not working is most likely to be connected to having certain types of punctuation included in the content.

Do some testing to locate the specific characters and DO NOT include them.  In addition to the ones you mentioned I have also found tha that chevrons < > will also stop it from working.  Parentheses in the Definition part of a glossary item seem to be allowed, but you cannot use them as part of the Term itself.

Lilybiri
Legend
January 15, 2018

You have to upload to a webserver or a LMS to test widget functionality.

Moreover, as I suspect your native language is not English, you have to know that this widget is not supporting combination characters like the é and à n 'déjà'.

markwatkins
Known Participant
January 15, 2018

Isn't SCORM Cloud sufficient? It seems to be the special characters in the content actually. Including slashes, colons, semi-colons and parenthesis apparently. Hyphens seem to work though. Discussed here.