One button Toggles object visibility and hides multiple others

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Greeting Captivators!I have created an interactive seating chart as part of a new hire orientation course.The desired function = user clicks a Department button (multi state Normal and Active) and the following actions happen:Change state of Department button to ActiveA semitransparent shape (highlight) appears over the floor plan representing where that department is located.Change state to Normal for all the other Department buttons.Hide All other highlighted areasEach button toggles Normal and Active and the corresponding highlight toggles Show/hide. For example, User clicks Systems, the Systems button toggles green (Active) and the location of the Systems team toggles to highlighted (Show). Then user clicks Break Room, Systems button toggles to blue (Normal), Systems highlighted area toggles to Hide, Break Room button toggles to green (Active), and Break Rooms highlights are toggled (Show).It all works! Well...almost. It works the first time. What is happening is when you click from Button A to Button B, to Button C - it all works as designed. However, when you click from Button C back to Button A, there is a dead click. Button C and its highlight toggle, but Button A and highlight do nothing. A second click produces the desired response. I don't want that 2nd click. How do I avoid it. Here is my project link. Dropbox - interactiveFloorPlan Thanks for any help you can offer.-Dave

yg236 · Answer

Dave,Advanced action can work in this case, but it's too complicated and prone to problems, especially with the overlapping highlights. If your Captivate version has states, there is a very simple solution to what you'd like to do. You can make the whole chart and the 13 button images a single image, go to the image state view, duplicate the state 13 times, and put the correct toggled button image and grey highlight into each state. Go back to the slide and put transparent shape as button on each of the 13 buttons. In the button actions, simply set the action as change to state 1, 2, 3...13, and it's done. This is much easier than using advanced actions. If you need to edit the chart and buttons image later, changing the original image would automatically change all the states too. If your Captivate version doesn't have states, you can do it with 13 slides, it's pretty much the same as using states, except the different "states" are on different slides and the action is jumping to that slide, and you need to set the transparent shapes (as buttons) to "Display for the rest of project", or put them on the master slide.Hope this helps!

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