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June 17, 2020
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Importing OAM file into Captivate, strange behaviour!

  • June 17, 2020
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I have an Adobe Animate(2020) HTML5 project that I am exporting to an OAM file, and importing it into Captivate (2019) in order to utilise the SCORM publishing within Captivate.

The processing I and following is:

  • Start with a blank Captivate project, at the correct size
  • Load the "HTML5 Animation" dropping in the OAM file that fills the screen
  • Then set the Publish settings for SCORM 1.2 output and Publish.

The problem is when I change the Animate project, re-publish the OAM with the update, then replace the old OAM with the new version (of the same name), publishing the Captivate project seems to use the old versions of the files contained in the OAM rather than the new version, as though they are cached somewhere an not being refreshed with new data files.

I've tried clearing the cache, but that doesn't make any difference.

The only way round the problem seems to be start a new blank project and start again with the updated OAM, this is just rediculous, and wouldn't be workable if I needed to actually utilise Captivates slide functionality.

What am I doing wrong?

 

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Stagprime2687219
Stagprime2687219
Legend
June 17, 2020

My HTML5 animations are all zip files so I do not know if this is the same with  OAMs or not.

 

When I update my HTML5 animations - I have to use the following process...

  1. Delete animation from stage
  2. Delete animation from library
  3. Re-import new animation

 

My animations never use the new one until I delete the animation from the library first.

Just doing an update doesn't help. Gotta delete first - then bring in updated one.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 17, 2020

That is exactly what I wrote as well... 

Stagprime2687219
Stagprime2687219
Legend
June 17, 2020

It appeared different to me - perhaps with your usage of the word "slide".

I do not delete any slides, just the animation itself that is placed on the slide. I also don't need to import to a new slide I drop it right in the same place on the same slide every time.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
June 17, 2020

There is no real roundtripping with OAMs like Captivate has with Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition and used to have with SWF files.  Animations in OAM format are very independent from the UI of Captivate (like event videos).  But they are never scored. What do you need the SCORM publishing for? If you have other slides in Captivate, delete the first OAM slide, import the new one on a new slide. No need to restart from scratch. Look in the Library, is the old OAM still there? Personally I rarely import directly to a slide, just to the Library. 

Totally agree that the integration between Captivate and Animate needs to be improved. Do not understand me wrongly. I also want improvement between CP and AI as well...But when I edit a SVG from within the Library in AI it is updated in Captivate. Never tried it with an OAM. 

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