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Ben Zion
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August 20, 2015
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Run an advanced action from Standard Action

  • August 20, 2015
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I was looking at Rod Ward's book on Actions, and I thought I saw (in Captivate 7) the ability to run an advanced action from within a standard action. Did Adobe take that capability away in Captivate 8? And why would they do that?

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    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    August 20, 2015

    Hi there

    To my knowledge there has never been an ability in any version of Captivate to launch one action from another.

    I'm wondering if perhaps you are confusing this with an ability to use a Conditional (If Then Else) action so it has a segment that is always executed as if it were a Standard Action. And to make that happen, you simply configure a condition that will never possibly evaluate any way but true or false.

    For example, check to see if a literal value of 1 is equal to another literal value of 1. Unless the universe implodes, this would never evaluate to a false value. So only the actions specified for the true evaluation would ever be carried out. The Else part would never be reached. (and if the universe implodes, it won't matter)

    That setup works in all versions of Captivate that support Advanced Actions.

    Cheers... Rick

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    August 20, 2015

    You can combine standard and conditional actions only by using multiple

    decisions in one conditional action.

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 20, 2015

    There has never been any ability in any Captivate version so far to execute another Advanced Action from within an Advanced Action. 

    To my knowledge, my e-book does not suggest this.

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