Jump to a specific frame on a slide and play

I apologise if the functionality in Captivate was not available at the time of the question.

is the following workaround more practicable ?

-Add a blank, small interactive video as a placeholder
-Place it outside the stage and make it invisible.
-for interactive videos, you can add bookmarks very comfortably and also control them.

I am not yet that experienced with Captivate. In my quick & dirty test it works

nice greetings

Your current script will go to the frame that is 600 frames from the very first frame in the project, not the first frame in that slide.  Is that what you wanted?

That would only work if it is on the 1st slide.

Other slides you need to use:

Expression   cpCmndGotoFrameAndResume = cpInfoCurrentFrame + 600

Maybe you could have a look at this blog post:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/micro-navigation-introduction

Your 'advanced' action (it is only one command, could have been a simple action) will jump to 20 secs in the project. If the slide with the button triggering that action is not longer than 20 seconds that will indeed be to another slide. Frame counter is over the whole project.

BTW the action would be more useful if you used cpInfoFPS and calculate the frames from the time in seconds. :

   Expression v_frame = 20*cpInfoFPS

   Assign cpCmndGotoFrameAndResume with v_frame

I would even prefer to put the time in a variable, which can be populated using a Text Entry Box... It would be an action allowing the user to jump to any time in the project.