Linking multiple projects in Captivate 8

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September 2, 2015
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I am trying to link several projects in Captivate but Adobe Flash gives an error message. When I click "Yes" to this error message it opens the linked project. My problem I am not a techie therefore I do not understand the difference between an eternal URL and a url to the locahost. I assign a click button to "open a new project" I also tried open swf file but the same thing happens.

There must be someone who has come across this and subsequently found a solution.

Any ideas?

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gtechgaryAuthor

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Very disappointed in answers. This is such an expensive product and I have invested so much money time and effort in it. Also encouraged several of my clients to purchase but it extremely difficult to use. In relative terms there are other e-learning development tools which are much easier to use and give better results. As I have invested so much money, time and effort I am now stuck with it and will have to muddle my way through.

The time and effort used to accuse me of double posting issues would have been better spent trying to help find a solution. I f I had helpful answers I would not have reposted.

Lilybiri

Legend

I just want to explain that this a user forum, you are not getting answers from Adobe employees, unless they have the badge 'Staff' under their avatar.

In the other thread users told you to be sure to add the local paths to Flash trusted locations. Did you do that? When the published files are on a LMS or a webserver this is no longer necessary, just when you run them locally. Sorry if other tools would have been better suited, personally I am persuaded that Captivate is the most versatile tool for all kind of eLearning software, but because of its flexibility you need to allow some learning time. Easy and powerful are not often good combinations.

Will you use a LMS? How did you link to other projects: with 'Open URL or File' or with 'Open another Project'?

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Bustergoof

Inspiring

Hi gtechgary,

It would be affected by sizes, but you could try publishing each captivate file as a separate sco course in a zip. You then go into each zip and delete the manifest.xml as that would only confuse your LMS. For the one that is the menu course make a project with slides enough for your individual learnings projects (lets call them project slides), by the way when you publish this menu course at the end of this whole process don't delete its manifest.xml. So before you do publish create one top slide that has buttons jumping to the other individual project slides. On each individual project slide drag the corresponding zip file from the directory you published it in. These will be turned into web objects and end up in your final sco zip as resources in a folder called "wo". Once you drag the zip onto the slide you will see each project load the first page, which you can resize to suit. If you want to have quiz slides load then you will need to test whether your LMS registers the completion etc. In theory it should work as I believe it is all handled by the captivate SCORM wrapper JavaScript.

NB you will need to leave room on the slides for a back to menu button that returns you to the first slide as the projects will load as an iframe above the captivate window and the browser.

Hope that helps

Luke ( bustergoof )