Need to hide private date on screen

Ooops, well strike me pink with a blow lamp!

The only small point I was making is if there is a possible risk of a security breach during a development phase or in the presentation of of a product then do not use sensitive data. Incidentally, is not all information that can vary a variable and do not all database contain such things?

Hi Captiv8r

I was not aware the highlight box is actually made part of the background image - I learned something new today so it is not totally wasted!. I am also assuming with the possible forthcoming seamless integration of Captivate 2 with Flash, the highlight box might be simply interpreted by Flash as a symbol and therefore can be removed? (this is only a rhetorical question)

My main concern is if someone is working with a programme that imports, manipulates and exports data then there is usually an external database/store for the variables somewhere, ergo if someone can access this location then the data is compromised so why take the risk? (this is not a rhetorical question)

As an aside, I remember another well known CBL development package touted as having top-notch security to the extent their advertising blurb cited the American Military use their product as a preferred platform. Lo and behold a Russian coding expert claimed to have 'broken' the security using the simple expedient of entering a sequence of key presses on the keyboard using a combination of digits from four hands i.e. it only took two people to access the programme. I remember reading about this on the Russian's web site detailing this procedure etc.

Needless to say, I believe the Military ceased using the programme for more sensitive data. I know I certainly did.

P.S. I don't know if there is a connection, but the CBL company concerned subsequently changed its name!

Could I just inject a word of caution?

I never use 'live' data in these scenarios due to possible security breaches - swf decompilers etc. If you are sure no one else will have access to the software then OK, otherwise use 'dummy' data.

Thank you so much! I would never have tried the highlight box and the merge into background is EXACTLY what I needed!

Jamie

Hi Jamie and welcome to the community

This one is pretty easy. Typically, I advise users to insert a highlight box and size it to cover the sensitive data on the image. Then configure the highlight box so there is no surrounding frame, the transparency is 0% (totally obscures the data) and the color matches the background of what you are covering.

Once you do this, copy it and paste it on other slides where you need to cover the same field. The neat part about all this is that you can select multiple slides and paste as one fell swoop into all the selected slides. The other neat part is that the highlight box gets pasted into the exact location on each slide. So it should perfectly cover the data on the other slides.

The final part of all this is to right click this object on each slide and merge it into the slide background. This prevents the information from briefly being seen as the slide loads up. The highlight box fading into view causes this effect.

Hopefully this helps... Rick