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itt17466624
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April 13, 2017
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Micronavigation.

  • April 13, 2017
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Hi there,

I have a micronavigation question.

I have the following

Title page. On that page there is 5 sec video and after 2 sec the menu appears.

I would like the user to see the video and the whole slide the first time when s/he launches the module.

Then, the user would go to explore several sections. After seeing the last slide of every section, the user will go back to the Title/Menu page.

What I do not want them to see is the whole 5 sec of the Title/Menu page. I would like them to jump to that slide but instead of starting it from the beginning I would like them to go to the 3rd second of the slide.

I am trying the following as an advanced action attached to the button at the lasts slide of a section.

I have a user variable called Current slide where I store the cpInfoCurrentFrame

Jump to Slide => The title/menu slide

Assign - CurrentFrame with cpInfoCurrentFrame

Expression - cpCmndGoToFrameAndResume = CurrentFrame + 120

What happens is that the user is brought back to the Title/Menu slide, but it starts from the beginning.

Thank you in advance for your help

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Correct answer Lilybiri

Thank you Lieve

I think I got the answer.

The actions work well and I jump to the Frame that I have set.

The problem is that there is a 4 seconds video which will restart every time.

So basically, I am jumping to the frame 120 and all the objects are as they should be at frame 120, but the video restarts.

It was set as Event Video / Progressive Download video.

So in this case, the video is automatically set to Auto-Rewind

The only thing I can do with this video is to Hide it with a line in the action, so one workaround will be to have an image that would show, and the video will be hidden

Another way is this one

I have included the same video but this time it is set as Multi Slide Synchronised Video.

Like that the video does not auto rewind, so I when I jump to the frame the video would be still.

I guess that would work. Still need to test extensively.

Thank you once again Lieve


Event video is always playing totally independent from Captivate:

Pausing Captivate's Timeline - Captivate blog

You didn't mention this in all your replies, or I could have solved this before. Indeed, to be able to control the video it has to be multi-slide synchronized video.

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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April 13, 2017

I suspect you did read my article about micronavigation, because that is why I have been using that word for the first time and it now is used by many.

DId you read this later post: Force first view - Captivate 8 - Captivate blog

I cannot give you a more complete answer, because you don't tell HOW you store the value of cpInfoCurrentFrame in the user variable. It looks like you don't do that when leaving the slide with the video at all. What do you have more on that slide? Are the users moving to the menu slide with a Back button? You could store the starting frame of the video slide in the user variable (don't give it a name that is similar to the system variables, but something like v_Start) using the On Enter action of that video slide. Something is wrong with your actions, but have not enough details.

    itt17466624
    itt17466624Author
    Participant
    April 13, 2017

    Thank you for taking time and replying, Lieve. I certainly have read many of your tutorials. To give you a better idea here is more

    1. Lets say that I have only two slides. One is the Title/Menu (with the Video). The second slide has a Next button with the AA attached.

    2. I have a variable called v_StartFrame.

    3. This is what I have as action on Enter of the first slide (Title/Menu)

    4. This is the action that is assigned to the Next button of the Second slide.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    April 13, 2017

    How did you test? Micronavigation has more issues for HTML5 output, and want to double-check.

    Which version (exact number) do you use?

    Anyway the second command (Assign) has no sense in this setup, because you are re-entering the title slide, and that means that the On Enter Assign command has already been executed. Is this really the first slide? Because in that case you don't need to store the first frame number.

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