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February 10, 2021
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Skin not showing in published training

  • February 10, 2021
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I tried adding a skin that will show a playbar at the bottom of the screen, but it does not work. There are only buttons to mute the video or to close the tab.

 

My project was created from a PowerPoint presentation. Each of my slides consists of 99% inserted video, with the last 1% of playtime dedicated to the underlying PowerPoint slide. How can I get a playbar at the bottom of the screen so that the user/learner may scrub through the video forward and backward?

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    I DO have several Pretest Multiple Choice Slides.


    That is the reason why the navigation possibilities are greyed out. Pretest slides need all to be in sequence at the start of the project. Once the pretest is finished the learner should never go back to it. For that reason Captivate prevents all navigation. You can only override by using custom navigation.

    I hope you did read what I wrote in my first answer about the progress bar being for the whole project, never per slide.

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    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 10, 2021

    Even if you had a playbar including the progress bar, and you inserted the videos as slide video (which can be controlled by Captivate as is not the case for event video) that progress bar would be for the full project, including all slides. That is not what you want I suspect.

    If you insert event video, you get an individual control panel for each video, but that doesn't include a progress bar.

    February 23, 2021

    So even if I do not have pretest questions or branch aware it is impossible to have a playbar for each individual video on each slide?

    Lilybiri
    Legend
    February 23, 2021

    For an individual playbar per slide you need JS or something similar. There is a suggestion in this thread:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/captivate/need-some-javascript-help/m-p/11852111#M288733

     

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 10, 2021

    Did you add the videos as Event Videos or Slide Videos?

     

    From your description it sounds like they are Event videos and this would mean the video timelines are not synchronized with the main timeline of the project.  If you want to have the Skin playbar able to Pause or Play the videos, they need to be inserted as slide videos.

    February 10, 2021

    They are inserted as Slide Videos

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 10, 2021

    OK.  Then have you selected the option to have a playbar yet?

     

    Go to Project > Skin Editor > Show playbar control.