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Waterlily1000
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August 3, 2012
Question

Skin Editor Options Greyed Out

  • August 3, 2012
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I am trying to update the skin for my Captivate 6 project, but all of the options are  greyed out no matter which skin template I select. This appears to be an issue with just this one project, but I have no idea why they have become greyed out. Likewise, In the Table of Contents tab of the skin editor, I am unable to enable navigation and deselect the option that prohibits users from moving to a slide they haven't yet viewed. So, when I publish the project, there is no navigation bar nor is the table of contents active for navigation - even for slides that have been viewed.

I need to get this project done today and just realized this was happening late yesterday. Please HELP!!!

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    rebeccal42625238
    Participant
    August 25, 2022

    I did both. I don't have any pretests OR don't have branch aware checked. I still have it greyed out. Is there any other advice. I really don't want to copy everything to a new project for a simple skin editor thing. I have version 2019.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    August 26, 2022

    Not a good idea to paste this to such an old thread because so much has changed.

     

    Are you perhaps busy with a Fluid Boxes project (responsive)?

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    Nutley
    Known Participant
    September 15, 2015

    I just spent the last four hours googling the issue of why my TOC was unable to forward to other parts of the course.

    Turns out it was because I had three pesky PreTest Questions in the module. Not sure what the point of having a Pretest questions option is now. I just recreated them as three more Test questions with no reporting and zero points instead now everything works as it should.

    But thankyou for solving my issue anyway

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    September 15, 2015

    Pretest and Branch aware disables navigation.

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 15, 2015

    If you can manage to upgrade to Captivate 9 you may find that the new Knowledge Check slides are more like what you wanted.

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    Anonymous
    August 15, 2013

    I had checked the Branch Aware box so that users could go back to review material before answering question (otherwise the question Submit button doesn't work after going back).  But that knocked out being able to edit the skin (i.e. add closed caption choice). Unchecking the Branch Aware box didn't help. I had to copy all the slides to a new project. (Clearing preferences didn't work).

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 16, 2013

    Branch Aware is not used to allow users to "go back to review material before answering a question".  It's used to allow learners to take one of two or more branches through a quiz but then only be scored according to the quiz slides actually visited. 

    The 'feature' I believe you are thinking of is Remediation.  This is where you configure the On Last Attempt action of a quiz slide to jump back to a given content slide.  On that slide you set a button with Return to Quiz action so that clicking this button will return the learner to the quiz question they failed.

    Either way, I agree that making it mandatory for the skin to be disabled when using any similar feature is just asking for unhappy users.

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    Anonymous
    August 16, 2013

    Remediation isn't exactly what I'm looking for. I'm looking for the user to choose from slides to go to. I don't want the user to get a wrong answer and be sent to one slide. There are still 3 more answers I'd like the user to look into. Also, when a question has multiple answers, being directed to one slide isn't a help.

    Yes, Free the Submit Button!

    AnitaHorsley
    AnitaHorsley
    Inspiring
    August 3, 2012

    Please make sure that in Preferences/Quiz/Settings the Branch Aware is NOT checked.

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      Waterlily1000Author
      Known Participant
      August 3, 2012

      I did have that checked. I unchecked it, but it didn't change the skin editor settings. They are still greyed out. I ended up creating a new blank project and copying my slides into the new project. It is working in the new project, but if you have any ideas about what would have caused this issue I would greatly appreciate any additional ideas, so I don't repeat the mistake. Thanks for your response!

      IndoorsDave
      IndoorsDave
      Known Participant
      August 7, 2012

      I'd love an answer to this aswell.

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