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kmunoz1985
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January 16, 2017
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Slide using smart shapes as buttons won't auto advance after 30 seconds?

  • January 16, 2017
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Hello! I am trying to create a timed slide where the user must correctly click on 7 smart shapes (as buttons) that reports to the quiz results. So far, I can't seem to get it to advance automatically after 30 seconds - it only advances when the user clicks "submit"

I've tried changing the active/inactive states of the smart shapes, I tried taking the submit button out altogether, I tried inserting a timer that would jump to the next slide on timeout - nothing has worked. I'm sure there is some setting I am missing, I am not particularly tech-savvy but have somehow wound up as our content creator.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    January 16, 2017

    Can you please post a screenshot of the timeline, the stage, and the advanced action that you use to have the slide continue? You have created that Submit button, for what reason and which command or action is triggered by that button?

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    kmunoz1985Author
    Participant
    January 16, 2017

    The submit button is intended to allow the user to go to the next slide - ideally they would be able to move through faster than 30 seconds - so it is set to Go to Next Slide.

    I don't have any advanced actions... I am pretty new to Captivate, and have never done anything even remotely like this before, I am not really sure how to utilize them correctly/effectively.

    Basically, I am in way over my head here!

    Here is a screenshot of the timeline, but there are too many things on the slide to get it to all show at once. I apologize in advance, this is looking like maybe I'm just not prepared to make the program do what my company would like it to do.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    January 16, 2017

    All the shape button are pausing the slide at 1,5secs. You talked about 7 shape buttons but the Timeline shows 21 shape buttons?

    Why is that slide so long, it has no sense because I don't see slide audio.

    I'm stil not sure what you really want? What are those 30secs?

    You want them to click on each shape button (is there content in it, I see images above those shape buttons?) and what do those shape buttons do? Where is the submit button?

    Can you please try to explain in words what you want to happen? Maybe you should read that sequence of 5 blog posts (first one is announced in top of these forums) about the Timeline. Only 3 have been published so far, fourth is on its way and talks more specificually about pauses.

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