Linked Projects Not Opening

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July 27, 2007
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Some background first... I am working in Captivate 2 developing an elearning tool for my company. This tool will be delivered through the SCORM 1.2 LMS system our company uses. I am new to Captivate and have spent 4 weeks on this project.

I have nothing to do with the LMS administration, I am only developing the tool in Captivate, then I will submit the SWF file to our LMS administrator.

Well, I am remote so I have been developing these projects and uploading the SWF file to the Adobe Connect Enterprise Server in order to provide a link for my end users, so they may review and submit changes back to me. It has all worked flawlessly and after 4 weeks I am done developing getting ready to record audio and have run into a snag. Up until now I have been sending them the project in TWO Parts (TWO Captivate Projects). Lets say Part I and Part II.

I have set the Project End preferences to open Part II in the Curent window, so the user is just redirected. When I publish the project to open the Part II SWF file, Part I runs, but Part two will not open? I have tried everything I can think of, and I get redirected back to Adobe Connect Enterpise saying file not found.

Then I tried linking the Part II HTML file (instead of the SWF zip file) and it does work, but that is only because it is on my computer and the HTML defaults to my harddrive. When I upload the file to Adobe Connect enterprise and run the URL, Part II still will not come up, but no errors, it does not even look to try to open something. I also tried to include all of the Part II zipped files in with the Part I files, by zipping them together and uploading in to Adobe Connect Enterpise that way, and that did not work. What do I need to do? How do I make sure the output file has all that it needs to get the content to open as it is set up?

Mel

Quizzing and LMS

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Correct answer mel4_marrev

I feel silly. Not sure why it did not register in my brain to use the URL for the uploaded project. I uploaded the PDF and PartII for Adobe Connect and then used the URL to link.

I think when we upload this into our LMS, we may find we need to just have two projects and a menu, but at least for review purposes I can now get it to work in Adobe Connect. I was trying to use the direct path for SWF and/or HTML and of course it did not work because it was not uploaded to the server. It has to be a direct path to the project/file on the server.

Again, feel silly. Sometimes it really is K.I.S.S.

Thanks... mel

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DilbertG

Adobe Employee

Hi mel4_marrev,

You are right, with your findings. You need to specify the direct path. Adobe Connect enterprise does not work on relative paths. It always requires absolute paths.

thanks

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Newsgroup_User

Inspiring

I'm not sure how to resolve the problem.
The reason for the issue, however, may be that when you make a Captivate
file SCORM compliant, it makes assumptions about the file; such as when
it ends, it's complete and may send that status to the LMS.

Even if that doesn't occur, if you have scored interactions in the
lesson, I'm not sure how the second file's interactions will coexist
with the first. There's a chance, I think, that the second file's
interactions will overwrite the interaction results and score of the
first file.

In short, I don't think what you're trying to do is a good idea (if even
possible) with the SCORM requirements you have and Captivate's fairly
limited customizing capabilities (you can't tell the first file to 'be
aware' of the second file).

So barring any other solutions (which there may be?), I'd stick with
delivering one file for each lesson - which is a better approach IMO
anyway, using the LMS as the 'menu'. Or, if you must deliver them
together, I think you'll need to invest time into integrating them into
an overall 'shell' program that can gather the two lessons scores and
send them cumulatively to the LMS, as well as negate any 'finish' LMS
command the first file may send and any 'initialize' command the second
file would send.
HTH
Erik

mel4_marrev wrote:
>

>
> Some background first... I am working in Captivate 2 developing an elearning
> tool for my company. This tool will be delivered through the SCORM 1.2 LMS
> system our company uses. I am new to Captivate and have spent 4 weeks on this
> project.
>
> I have nothing to do with the LMS administration, I am only developing the
> tool in Captivate, then I will submit the SWF file to our LMS administrator.
>
> Well, I am remote so I have been developing these projects and uploading the
> SWF file to the Adobe Connect Enterprise Server in order to provide a link for
> my end users, so they may review and submit changes back to me. It has all
> worked flawlessly and after 4 weeks I am done developing getting ready to
> record audio and have run into a snag. Up until now I have been sending them
> the project in TWO Parts (TWO Captivate Projects). Lets say Part I and Part II.
>
> I have set the Project End preferences to open Part II in the Curent window,
> so the user is just redirected. When I publish the project to open the Part II
> SWF file, Part I runs, but Part two will not open? I have tried everything I
> can think of, and I get redirected back to Adobe Connect Enterpise saying file
> not found.
>
> Then I tried linking the Part II HTML file (instead of the SWF zip file) and
> it does work, but that is only because it is on my computer and the HTML
> defaults to my harddrive. When I upload the file to Adobe Connect enterprise
> and run the URL, Part II still will not come up, but no errors, it does not
> even look to try to open something. I also tried to include all of the Part II
> zipped files in with the Part I files, by zipping them together and uploading
> in to Adobe Connect Enterpise that way, and that did not work. What do I need
> to do? How do I make sure the output file has all that it needs to get the
> content to open as it is set up?
>
> Mel
>

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mel4_marrevAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you. Actually the reason for doing two is we needed to score the two lessons seperately. One is 10 graded questions and one is 7 essay (survey) questions. If they were in one project they score calculated all of the essay questions as the correct answers which is confusing when you view the results page.

It is truly a matter of at the end of Part I, they get re-directed to Part II in a seemless environment. My end user did not want me to use menu builder or have it broken up into two because they wanted it to seem as one. I took out the SCORM information so I could upload it to Connect Enterprise, so they could view how it transitions but it still will not open the next project. It will on my computer because it is calling up the HTML doc on my hard drive.

I am also having the same problem with a instruction sheet that I have included a "button" for them to click and opn in order to print. It works on my computer but it will nto worked once published and uploaded.

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mel4_marrevAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

I feel silly. Not sure why it did not register in my brain to use the URL for the uploaded project. I uploaded the PDF and PartII for Adobe Connect and then used the URL to link.

I think when we upload this into our LMS, we may find we need to just have two projects and a menu, but at least for review purposes I can now get it to work in Adobe Connect. I was trying to use the direct path for SWF and/or HTML and of course it did not work because it was not uploaded to the server. It has to be a direct path to the project/file on the server.

Again, feel silly. Sometimes it really is K.I.S.S.

Thanks... mel

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