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August 1, 2008
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Returning to a master menu at the end

  • August 1, 2008
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Hi, I hope someone can advise me on this.

I am planning to offer several Captivate presentations which can be copied to a local disk, played from the CD or even online.

The viewer will select the presentation he wants to view from an HTML page and I want Captivate to return to that page after each presentation has finished. However, while I can enter an http:// address if viewing online, I can't work out what the syntax is to get it to return to the main menu, especially if I put the presentations in a sub folder of the main folder. Does this make sense? The problem I will have is I don't know the physical drive letter or root folder of the main menu, so everything needs to be relative to this start folder.

Say the menu is in \movies\menu.htm
The presentations are in \movies\presentations\movie1.htm movie2.htm etc

How do I get the browser to find the menu.htm again after it has finished playing movie1.htm?

Many thanks.
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Captiv8r
Legend
August 1, 2008
Hi there Nigel

Typical HTML relative path shorthand would say that ../ is used to move up a directory level.

Based on the structure you are proposing, I would think the links for each movie to return to the main menu would look something like this:

../menu.htm

Cheers... Rick
Participating Frequently
August 1, 2008
Rick

I had forgotten about the double dot. Many thanks for your help. That worked a treat.

Nigel
Participant
August 7, 2008
I'm trying to do something similar with relative links and this approach is not working for me. When I use the relative link and then click on the button I get:

http://../folder/file.htm

It looks like Captivate is passing the raw link rather than interpreting the path.

Any ideas?