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Inspiring
October 2, 2013
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I want to do a drag and drop but don't want it to be a test

  • October 2, 2013
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Hi,

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am using Captivate 7.

I want to do a drag and drop but don't want it to be a test. This is for brain storming---not a test.

None of the items to drag are correct or incorrect---they are just ideas. For example the 20 items could be different things you might put in your suitcase for vacation. There are no wrong answers---just your preference.

There are 20 items to be dragged. There is only one drag target. All 20 items can go to that 1 drag target.

I don't want the learner to have to drag all of the items to the target in order to finish. For example, the learner might leave 3 items out because the learner doesn't like those items. I want the learner to be able to hit submit (or any other button) at any time and go to the next slide immediately, not have to finish the drag and drop. Any ideas? 

thanks!

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Correct answer Sreekanth_S

Set the On Success and On Failure actions to Continue or Go to next slide.

Ensure that the number of attempts is set to 1 and Infinite checkbox is not selected.

Remove the Failure caption by just deleting that caption from the slide or deselecting the Failure Caption checkbox.

Sreekanth

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Known Participant
October 2, 2013

Also be aware that if you add a quiz to the project, that the drag and drop and quiz affect each other.

In a way we have been cheated into thinking that is also a learning tool for repeated attempts. With a quiz in the project it does not work.

I also tried it without the quiz. When learners now use it, the drag and drop will "hang" at times. EMBARRASING when a client phones you with a stuck learning session!!

I have spent hours with the online Adobe dudes. It some or other "buG".

"BUG" is IT code for "we designed something but did not test it well enough and now we pretend that it is some mysterious organic organism that is maliciously undermining our design"  

Legend
October 2, 2013

Can you please elaborate on the bug part of this?

Sreekanth

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Legend
October 2, 2013

Set the On Success and On Failure actions to Continue or Go to next slide.

Ensure that the number of attempts is set to 1 and Infinite checkbox is not selected.

Remove the Failure caption by just deleting that caption from the slide or deselecting the Failure Caption checkbox.

Sreekanth

Inspiring
October 2, 2013

IT WORKED!

thanks so much!

Lilybiri
Legend
October 2, 2013

OK, I was sleeping (Europe), but you seem to have found a solution.