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CraigStevenson
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May 5, 2011
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Help with Advanced Action - Hide caption not working

  • May 5, 2011
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Hello All,

I'm relatively new to using Captivate advanced actions (now using Cap5). I have a solid background in Actionscript so programming concepts are not new to me. However, this relatively simple process has got me stumped. Here is what I have going on. Using variables and advanced actions, I'm using MCQ answers as a likert scale question. I'm doing this so I can send the user to a particular slide based on the culmination of a pretest score and post test score. So, in my test MCQ slide I have 5 answers and set each one to assign a number to a variable when chosen. ie. Click 1 Strongly Agree assigns v_Score1 to 1, Click 2 Somewhat Agree assigns 2 to v_Score1, etc. I then have an expression that adds two slides responses (v_totalScore = v_Score1 + v_Score2). On the next slide I show what v_Score1, v_Score2, and v_totalScore are in captions. Then I have an action on a button that fires off another action called a_goToResults. a_goToResults is an advanced action with two conditions. The first says if v_totalScore is less than 5 go to next slide and hide the blue caption (cap_Blue). The other condition says if v_totalScore is 5 or higher go to next slide and hide the red caption (cap_Red). Everything works except for the Hide part. I've named the captions and chosen them from the dropdown so I'm sure there's not typos. I can't seem to get Captivate to hide the caption however. Does anyone have any advice or know of another way to do what I'm trying to do? Thanks in advance.

Craig.

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    Hello,

    On which slides are those captions? I suspect that they are on another slide than the slide where the advanced action is executed???

    You cannot show/hide an object with an advanced action unless it is on the same slide where the action resides. I once blogged about hiding/showing objects. Perhaps it could help you:

    Playing Hide-and-Seek with Captivate objects

    BTW my blog is almost entirely about advanced actions in CP5 and has links to articles that explain more in depth. I'm not a programmer, so perhaps this is superfluous for you.

    Lilybiri

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    Lilybiri
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    Legend
    May 5, 2011

    Hello,

    On which slides are those captions? I suspect that they are on another slide than the slide where the advanced action is executed???

    You cannot show/hide an object with an advanced action unless it is on the same slide where the action resides. I once blogged about hiding/showing objects. Perhaps it could help you:

    Playing Hide-and-Seek with Captivate objects

    BTW my blog is almost entirely about advanced actions in CP5 and has links to articles that explain more in depth. I'm not a programmer, so perhaps this is superfluous for you.

    Lilybiri

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    CraigStevensonAuthor
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    May 5, 2011

    Thank You! That worked perfectly. I'm used to thinking in Flash terms with global variables. I just moved the action to happen on enter where the captions existed.

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