Resume from last position

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October 24, 2007
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Can Captivate send the last slide viewed to an AICC LMS and retreive that slide number from the LMS.
So a user won't have to go thru 40 slides again to get the point where they left off (Client demands this ability).
In their words "True E-learning development software can send and receive data from an LMS"

I know how to hack AICC javascript code to send, retreive and parse the returned data.
Had to hack it for previous Articulate and Authorware courses.

If Captivate can read from and write to a javascript variable in the html page, then all is good.

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Correct answer jbradley88

If I may suggest a change to Rick's code...

By default, Captivate 2 uses "Captivate1" as the ID for the embedded movie and I have heard that Captivate 3 uses "Captivate", so the reference to "cp" may be the issue. I have seen some other custom Captivate code that uses "cp" as a variable name, so we may be seeing some inadvertent code creep.

Instead, go into your HTML file (or standard.js, if that's where you added the custom function) and change the line in Rick's code to the following, which should work on both IE and Firefox:

bookmark=(window.document.getElementById('Captivate1').GetVariable('rdinfoCurrentSlide'));

or

bookmark=(window.document.getElementById('Captivate').GetVariable('rdinfoCurrentSlide'));

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Yes, this should work.
Just be aware there are three different types of AICC. One used in an
LMS is probably the 'http' type, so it should work fine. There are very
few differences between SCORM and 'http' AICC protocols.

Now, that's all theory. I don't have an AICC-compatible LMS to actually
test with!

If it doesn't work 'natively', you can execute JS calls from CP, as Rick
states.
Erik

BurTech wrote:
> Can Captivate send the last slide viewed to an AICC LMS and retreive that slide
> number from the LMS.
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Hi BurTech and welcome to our community

Captivate can be used with JavaScript. But it will only work if the output is HTM/SWF. It won't work for .EXE output or if you point explicitly at the SWF when you run the file.

As for the LMS, I believe that's part of some types of LMS. Not sure if it is related to one standard or the other (AICC VS SCORM) but I know some LMS' do bookmarking. Additionally, another Captivate author has placed a widget up on the Captivate Exchange that will do some kind of bookmarking with no LMS involved. Personally I think it is a bit on the pricey side (I think they are asking something like $250 for it) but you may be interested in it. To view the Exchange, click this magickal link.

Cheers... Rick

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