LMSInitialise error from ADL when launching captivate course

This issue can probably be solved by changing your Flash player security settings:

• Get some Flash content playing in your browser. Any Flash animation will do. Go e.g. to www.adobe.com.
• Right-click on the animation, you will get the Flash context menu. SelectSettings.
• You will get a little menu.
• Click the Advanced button. This will bring you to an Adobe Web site.
• In the table of contents on the left, click Global Security Settings Panel. This will show you a panel.
  
• Add the location where your ADL TestSuite software is installed to the trusted locations. The location of the TEST SUITE software, not the location of your zip file or your content files. Those get copied automatically to a TestSuite subfolder when you run the test.
• Close all your browser windows and re-run the test.

For more details, check my blog post on http://www.mylearning.be/?p=332.

Hope this helps,

Jan.

Hi,

You can try this solution to get rid of this message.

If you are publishing in AS3, you have a chance to change the text of "Initialize LMS..." or dont show it at all.

1. Go to ]]>\ActionScript 3.0

2. Keep a backup copy of CaptivateMaintimeline.as, just in case.

3. Open CaptivateMaintimeline.as and find the function showLMSInitMovie()

4. If you dont want to show the message at all, add this line after addChild(LmsInit_mc);

LmsInit_mc.visible = false;

5. If you want to change the text, change this line accordingly.

LmsInit_txt.text = lmsString;

to

LmsInit_txt.text = "Loading Slides, Please Wait";

6. Re-publish your project with this setting in Preferences > Publish Settings> AS3 selected.

Thanks

Jayashree

Hi,

Could you pls. explain your problem in more detail?

LMS Initialize message is not an error message. It is like a preloader but because it is not animated it seems as if the course is hung in case the course is big. If you hang on for few minutes this message will go and you would be able to take the course. In fact in Captivate 3, after a course was left in between and a user used to resume the course again then he was able to see the first slide of the course for few seconds and then the course jumped to the slide from where the user quit last time. To solve that issue this message was introduced in Captivate 4. Now the user will not see the first slide any ime during course resumption. However, it would have been good if this message was animated.

Let me know if you are seeing this behaviour that I just explained or any other.

How big is your course (SWF size)?

Thanks

Jsyashree

http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate