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Anonymous
June 9, 2009
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Publishing external files and their links when all project is published on CD

  • June 9, 2009
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I am restricted to publishing my whole project on CD. The project is divided up into lessons (individual projects), which I link to each lesson by creating a button to link to a URL/file and link to the html file. In select lessons, I have SWF's, PDF's that I link to a new window and not continue playing the project.

How do I set up a whole project to link to consecutive lessons as well as SWF's and PDF's that all have to reside on the CD?

I'm at a loss because my links end up being broken when I publish to a CD...

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    Correct answer Captiv8r

    Hello again

    In a perfect world we would see that there would be no issues with linking. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world.

    In Captivate 3, you could create a link to an asset such as a Microsoft Word document, Adobe PDF document, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or whatever. Once you did this, you simply ensured that the asset was in the same folder as the Captivate output linking to it. Most of the time things just worked. But sometimes we saw that instead of opening the asset, the browser opened and couldn't find it. The odd part of all this was that the address listed in the browser address bar was actually correct. And if you just clicked there and pressed Enter, voilà! The asset popped open.

    In Captivate 3 you had a companion application called MenuBuilder. This application was intended to be used to link to assorted files. It was like a Captivate that was very limited in scope. It created what I refer to as "one slide wonders". I discovered this application could help when you needed to create a link that would work.

    Do you have Captivate 3 handy? If so, you may be able to use the companion MenuBuilder application to overcome some limitations.

    If you don't happen to have it handy, shoot me an E-Mail message at rstone75 (at) kc (dot) rr (dot) com and tell me the exact file names you need to link to. I'll be happy to create some small SWF files and send them back that will help with the linking.

    Hopefully this was helpful... Rick

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    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    June 9, 2009

    Hi there

    What version of Captivate are you using?

    If it's version 4, a patch has been released that will assist with linking from project to project that may help. Click Help > Updates to obtain and install the patch.

    If it's 3 or earlier, I have a method that may help.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    June 9, 2009

    Rick,

    I am using Captivate 4. I go to Help > Updates but it is not highlighted to download. Where can I find this patch for version 4. I've tried on the Adobe.com's site under Downloads > Updates but could not find one.

    With what I am asking, is it possible to have all files, like SWF's, PDF's, .html's, reside on the CD and link to them from within the CP projects?

    Thank you!

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8rCorrect answer
    Legend
    June 9, 2009

    Hello again

    In a perfect world we would see that there would be no issues with linking. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world.

    In Captivate 3, you could create a link to an asset such as a Microsoft Word document, Adobe PDF document, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or whatever. Once you did this, you simply ensured that the asset was in the same folder as the Captivate output linking to it. Most of the time things just worked. But sometimes we saw that instead of opening the asset, the browser opened and couldn't find it. The odd part of all this was that the address listed in the browser address bar was actually correct. And if you just clicked there and pressed Enter, voilà! The asset popped open.

    In Captivate 3 you had a companion application called MenuBuilder. This application was intended to be used to link to assorted files. It was like a Captivate that was very limited in scope. It created what I refer to as "one slide wonders". I discovered this application could help when you needed to create a link that would work.

    Do you have Captivate 3 handy? If so, you may be able to use the companion MenuBuilder application to overcome some limitations.

    If you don't happen to have it handy, shoot me an E-Mail message at rstone75 (at) kc (dot) rr (dot) com and tell me the exact file names you need to link to. I'll be happy to create some small SWF files and send them back that will help with the linking.

    Hopefully this was helpful... Rick

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