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deeb2400
Inspiring
June 14, 2018
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Slow loading slide with v2017

  • June 14, 2018
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Within a learning module I have a slide designed as a timeline with content elements using advanced actions to show/hide to the relevant content, several buttons and navigation elements. See image below of what should be the slide opening content below. This slide content is very slow - blank screen for about 5/6 secs before content appears. Is there a way to add a content loading icon/image to "alert" learners?

Thank you

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    Paul Wilson CTDP
    Community Expert
    Paul Wilson CTDPCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 16, 2018

    Deeb2400,

    It looks like what you are trying to attempt is a content carousel of sorts. Check out a tutorial I did the other day. This may lend itself well to what you're doing.

    Adobe Captivate - Content Carousel Two Ways - YouTube

    Paul Wilson, CTDP
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    deeb2400Author
    Inspiring
    June 18, 2018

    Paul,

    I did see over the weekend (yeh...what a way to spend weekends) that you have that video on YouTube. I will try to view ASAP.

    Many thanks

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    June 14, 2018

    You should avoid to have a complicated advanced action On Enter for the first slide of a course, because that is getting on top of all that has to be loaded already on that first slide. Why not have a static slide, like a title slide just before this slide?

    You didin't show the advanced action, but I see 'Show/Hide'. Didn't you consider to replace Hide/Show actions by using a multistate object? I use that replacement a lot, has multiple advantages.

    Whenever possible use instances of a shared action to replace advanced actions, helps a lot for me.

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    deeb2400Author
    Inspiring
    June 14, 2018

    This is not the first slide of the module and there is an introductory slide with more static content before the one in question. For "On Enter" for this particular slide I have "No Action".

    I am going to try "Shared Actions" to see if this make a difference with loading the content on the slide. I will not be able to do this today. I will let you know if this "works" for me.

    Many thanks for responding and challenging me to try new/different ways using Captivate.

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 15, 2018

    If you are publishing this to HTML5 you should already see a loading image when the slide begins.  Have you tested this content on a web server as yet to check this?

    Another thing to look into is whether or not you may simply have far too many heavy assets on that same slide and downloading these before play is therefore quite a logical problem to have.  Did you resize your images in a Graphics Editor before inserting them in the slide so that they display at 100% or did you just dump them in there and pull the corners down to resize them on screen.  Many Captivate developers don't realise that doing this just changes the display size of the graphic, not its filesize. 

    Also, you appear to have a video play icon on this slide as well.  Are there videos on the slide?  If so, they will also slow things down.

    If the timeline in fact DOES need to be this complex, you may be able to spread the content over several slides, one for each point on the timeline. 

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