Questions

Greetings All,  With the decommissioning of Flash, we are looking to update our (sometime old) SCORM files on the LMS to SWF. We've found out that our files were published in both formats and they all contain the Multiscreen file.  Will these keep on working once Flash is gone? And if not is there a solution to force it to launch in the HTML version only? This is important to us as we don't have the old .cptx files anymore to republish only to HTML.  Any thoughts on the subject would be most welcome!  Warm regards!  

I am trying to add a warning to prevent the browser window from being closed before the end of a training session.I've hooked up a beforeunload event handler, setting the event return parameters and return value:leavePage = function leavePage(evt) { var confirmationMessage = 'Leaving this page your progress will not be saved?'; (evt || window.event).returnValue = confirmationMessage; //IE (evt || window.event).defaultPrevented = true; return confirmationMessage; //Chrome } window.addEventListener("beforeunload", leavePage); This works as far as being called if the browser close button is clicked, popping up a dialog (chrome ignores the return message, but IE11 includes it).I am testing using SCORM cloud, but in either browser it looks like SCORM cloud also seems to pick up the event, and close the session even if the dialog box "Cancel" is clicked. In actual fact the dialog seems to appear 3 times before disappearing altogether, and allowing the training session to con

I'm working on a project and more and more frequently my timeline counter disappears. I'm not able to move the curser and edit. I have to save, close Captivate, and re-open. Even at this point, it only reappears sometimes.I've had this problem in the past but its happening more and more and causing production to slow!Please help, what can I do? Has anyone else had this issue?Windows 8 Captivate 8I've had this problem working on other PCs as well fyiThanks in advance Captivate experts!!!Sabrina

Hi all, I am trying to work out a solution to record student audio from a slide as part of a language class (students record themselves saying sentences in the other language directly from the slide) So far, I have been attempting to use implemetations of the following javascript libraries and tutorials:- https://github.com/mattdiamond/Recorderjs - https://github.com/bryanjenningz/record-audio I keep running into issues whenever I attempt to insert my code either inside of a button as an advanced action or inside of index.html and then reference the function on a button. The idea would be to get recorded audio from the student, allow playback and/or re-recording, and finally send off the recording to a SQL server. Does this project seem possible given the restraints of Adobe Captivate; does anyone have any ideas? 

Hi all,I have a license for Captivate 8. My hard drive crashed and has now been replaced.No matter how I try, I can't get it reinstalled even though I have a valid license number.I've tried Adobe chat and got nowhere.  If I purchased a product, even if now legacy, shouldn't a company have links to re-install under extreme conditions of a hard drive failure?  Captivate, as with other Adobe products isn't cheap.  And if v8 is working for me, I'm not interested in upgrading.  What gives?I appreciate any insights about how to download and register my software — and/or how to work with Adobe to get this done.  Many thanks.  — Linda

I have created a Software Simulation in Captivate, to which I would like to add a swf animation created in Adobe Animate. When I import the swf file into the Captivate project I can see the animtion play in the timeline, however when I preview the project in a web broswer or publish to a packaged HTML zip file, the slide that the swf was added to is blank. Can someone please confirm that I cannot add swf files to Software Simualtions or if there is a workaround/step I am missing. Thanks

Hi everyone! Hope, you have more Captivate experience than I do and will kindly assist me. My issue is as follows: one of the courses I `ve recently created is to be viewed on one particular LMS and not anywhere else. First my plan was to do it via Adv. Actions (if\else conditions) when entering the 1st slide  however I failed to find any LMS-related system variables to base the action on it.Do I got it right that the only option for me now is JavaScript? If someone gives an example how such script would look like, that would be jus great.(Details: the script should check where a Scorm is launched - if it`s not url X, the project pop-up window is closed. Any help is appreciated)Sorry, if I missed similar topics.

Dear all,I am suffering from a problem. I am using a Text Entry Box to get value from the user and do further calculations. I have deleted the default submit button and created the custom one. I notice that when user enters number in the Text Entry Box and hit submit button, variable value is not updated. But if user enter a number in Text Entry Box and hits Enter key and then clicks to Submit button, then only variable assigned to the Text Entry Box is updated.Please guide me how to solve this problem.Kind regards,Vaibhav

Dear All, I am stuck with the following problem. Please help me.I am trying to goto a particular time period (e.g. 20 seconds) on timeline when the Next button is clicked and come back to 10 seconds when the Back button is clicked. I am using these codes (Window.cpAPInterface.navigateToTime (20000) and Window.cpAPInterface.navigateToTime (10000) ) in the Javascript window. But it is not at all working. Please guide me , where I am going wrong and how to navigate through the timeline using time in seconds or milliseconds.Vaibhav K Dhange

When I get the popup window asking me if I'd like to continue where I left off or cancel and I click cancel, I'm taken to the point where I left off. I don't think this is how Captivate should be functioning. Does anyone have any suggestions? Using Captivate 2019, SCORM 2004 v3, and Thought Industries LMS.

I have a Captivate project that I am updating.  Size dimentions are 880x700.  When I preview the course using the HTML and the "NEXT X SLIDES", the output size is fine.  When I publish as HTML, the size is fine.  But when I publish as EXE, the size has been reduced to 740x590.  This EXE version is what we use for department reviews but the text is so small that it can't easily be read.  I have opened other Captivate projects and reduction doesn't happen.  Can anyone tell me what happened to cause this and how to fix it? (FYI:  I am using Captivate 2019 Release 11.5.1.499 on Windows 10 wiht an HP laptop.) Thanks!

Hello all I apologise if this has been answered before. I have created many courses using Captivate 2019 but sometimes I receive a query where an empoyee has passed a course (we have quiz's on each course with a pass rate of 80%) but this has not regiesterd with the LMS which is SAP Success Factors.  1 course has been completed by over 150 people, yet 2 others have this problem ?  I have asked that they use Chrome, delete there cache and ensure that they use the X button at the bottom of the screen to close the training.   Am I missing anything else that I can ask them to try ?? Many regards Andy Chamberlain

Hello allI can´t open my projects created with Cpativate 2017 in Captivate 2019.I have checked all the error messages (see image attached) and have also searched in Forums but couldn´t find a solution.I have checked other forums and solutions such as:https://elearning.adobe.com/2010/09/recovering-the-project/https://www.cpguru.com/recovering-corrupt-adobe-captivate-projects/ Nothing worked.Any idea how I can open the projects with C2019?thank you in advance

Hello everyone!In the current project I'm working on I experiences some strange behaviour of SVG objects. Most of the illustrations I'm working with, I create in Illustrator, save them as SVG and import them into Captivate. Once I place them in the slide, I resize the objects and put them at the right position. After saving, closing and reopening the project, everything seems to be normal at first. The slides look fine from the small thumbnail in the film strip, but once I click the slide, the SVG objects on the slide will change without me doing anything. I have really no idea what is happening and it causes a lot of extra work. Does anyone expierenced something similar before? 

Hi there!Very new to Captivate and learning as I go.I am creating a new responsive course, which includes software simulation.I am hoping to create a blank responsive project which has general information at the beginning and then I would like to include video which show software simulations (with captions). So as the user clicks through the tabs, it will show instructional software simulations when played, and has the option to show captions.This is where I am up to.Attempt 1: I made the responsive project with blank slides. I saved the software simulation as a video and embedded it into the responsive project, but when saved as a video mp4, the captions do not show on the responsive project.Attempt 2: Next, I made a blank responsive project and created a software simulation in a new project. I copied and pasted the software simulation slides into my blank responsive project, but obviously I can’t modify the software simulation content to fit within a elearning course.Is there any oth

I don't mean to rain on the parade of Captivate lovers, but after switching to Articulate, it's painfully obvious that Adobe didn't think their product through. Which saddens me, because I've always been a big supporter of Adobe.The biggest oversight that Adobe made with Captivate is that most trainers/educators who take the next step to e-learning software are coming from PowerPoint. By far, that's the software they're familiar with, and something they've been using for years. Articulate recognized this, and very cleverly designed their UI to not only emulate the PowerPoint interface, but to also work seamlessly with PowerPoint files that their customers already have.Software developers who don't consider their audience first before writing code are simply being arrogant and dismissive. Sorry, Adobe. 

There are several situations when audio plays simultaneously in Captivate. One is if you have audio connected to each state in a multi-state object. It behaves and stops one state's audio when you go to another state, but when you hit Replay, they all play at once. Is there a way to stop this? Is there a way to stop any audio when another object with audio is clicked on? I'd upload the file but I always get this error -- "The attachment's <FILENAME> content type (application/x-captivate) does not match its file extension and has been removed." Multiple people have asked why this -- including me in November -- and it goes unanswered.

Is it possible to place a shape on top of text in captuvate without unlocking the shape from the Fluid Box?

Team  I have imported a video as an event video into a fluid box. Now, i need to place a next button in the same fluid box. What is the procedure to do so? Regards

Hola espero alguien pueda apoyarme,tengo la licencia del software pero cuando lo descargo me lo pone de "Prueba" ¿alguien que pueda ayudarme?

Hi All, Small question  I am running the following setupMacbook Pro 13 Inch Mid 2012 (Mac Os Catalina 10.15.6)And I am running a version of Capitivate for Mac 2017 with and Institutional Serial Number When I try to publish to MP4 the status bar goes to 100% and then hangs and an empty mp4 is created and then I have to force quit  I sent the cptx file to my line manager who is running on windows and the MP4 creates fine for him Any suggestions welcome have tried the clean preferences option 

I've heard and read that if you don't want to use templates, you can instead set a regular .cptx project to read-only so that users are forced to do a save as and make a copy, thus protecting the original file. How exactly do you do that?

I am using Captivate 2019, but when I go to record a screen capture, the only option I have is to select an application window. I don't have the radio button options to select a Screen Area at a custom size, so I have to shove the window I want to record into the tiny red box and am unable to fullscreen at all. Why am I missing the Screen Area recording option, and how do I get it to show up? 

Yesterday, while testing a module, I took a quiz in the module I posted to our LMS, and was able to complete it.  Today, while trying to take it again, the slides refuse to advance after I select an answer.  Given this wasn't an issue yesterday, could this be an LMS issue, or could there be a problem with the module itself? 

When I update the Web object embedded path on my computer to a new PDF file, Captivate continues to display the old version of that PDF file. Is the only solution deleting the Web object and reinserting a new Web object then link it to the the new PDF file?