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donalall
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August 22, 2013
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Some Questions on Advanced Actions window

  • August 22, 2013
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HI

I have a couple of questions on Advanced Actions (using the CP7 trail version)

1. What's the function of the "Continue" action?   Exit's the advanced action and advances the Playhead?

2. What does this comment mean "Nested calls of advanced action is a nice enhancement."? Is the decision tabs at the top of an advanced action page?

3. What's the function of the "custom" option in the IF statement - "preform action if - custom", it doesn't seem to do anything for me?

4. Where can i get information about timeline / playhead interaction with advanced actions i.e. where the playhead goes to the start of the slide again. e.g. custom question slide - displaying button, checking answers, feedback - when all/most objects are at the start of the timeline. I'm looking more for playhead functionality infromation rather than how to set up this type of question.

Thanks

Donal.

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Correct answer Lilybiri

Continue: if a standard advanced action is triggered by a button, this will not release the play head. If you want to release it, you can use Continue. Continue can also be a choice in a conditional action, when one of the branching commands has nothing to do special but to advance. Continue is also the 'dummy' command/statement (that is the official name of a line in the Advanced actions dialog) if a statement has become unusable because of some reasons, it will be replaced by Continue

There is no nested call of advanced actions possible at this moment, one of my many feature requests. It would be a sort of subroutine that you can use over and over again, instead of having to create it every time when it is needed.

A decision is one of the conditions in a conditional advanced action. They allow to create more complex actions, because looping or arrays are not possible. All decisions are executed in sequence, and always.

Custom: is a combination of AND/OR but it is rather limited, because you cannot use parentheses.

I suppose you'd better visit my blog if you want to learn more about advanced actions.

http://blog.lilybiri.com/

I also did several webinars about Advanced actions, last one this afternoon (about sharing actions) for Adobe. They are all available On Demand.

Lilybiri

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Lilybiri
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Legend
August 22, 2013

Continue: if a standard advanced action is triggered by a button, this will not release the play head. If you want to release it, you can use Continue. Continue can also be a choice in a conditional action, when one of the branching commands has nothing to do special but to advance. Continue is also the 'dummy' command/statement (that is the official name of a line in the Advanced actions dialog) if a statement has become unusable because of some reasons, it will be replaced by Continue

There is no nested call of advanced actions possible at this moment, one of my many feature requests. It would be a sort of subroutine that you can use over and over again, instead of having to create it every time when it is needed.

A decision is one of the conditions in a conditional advanced action. They allow to create more complex actions, because looping or arrays are not possible. All decisions are executed in sequence, and always.

Custom: is a combination of AND/OR but it is rather limited, because you cannot use parentheses.

I suppose you'd better visit my blog if you want to learn more about advanced actions.

http://blog.lilybiri.com/

I also did several webinars about Advanced actions, last one this afternoon (about sharing actions) for Adobe. They are all available On Demand.

Lilybiri

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donalallAuthor
Inspiring
August 22, 2013

Hi Lilybiri,

Thanks for your reply and the link to your blog.

Continue: Can you just explain yor statement "Continue can also be a choice in a conditional action, when one of the branching commands has nothing to do special but to advance.". When you say "branching command" i'm assuming you mean "IF ELSE statements" and "to advance" is that to the next decision if there is one? and if you didn't include "Continue" would it still advance?

Custom: I see what you mean the first is an AND statement and the rest are OR statements.

Nested advanced actions: I picked the term up from the Adobe web site comment by "Hari" on Shared Actions, who i took to be an Adobe person. Maybe i didn't understand the context.

http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2013/07/shared-actions.html

On Demand: Is there an up to date link. I found this one but the latest recordings are May (advanced action - part 8), and there isn't much training after May so it may be while before your Shared Actions are uploaded.

http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/etrainings-adobe-captivate-adobe-elearning-suite-and-adobe-presenter

Donal

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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August 23, 2013

Indeed in a Yes/No situation where you have specific instructions for one of the branches, but not for the other one, to avoid that the play head just stops (http://blog.lilybiri.com/why-choose-standard-over-simple-action) you sometimes need to add Continue.

Custom: not really, you can change And to OR on any line, but because you cannot use parentheses, you have to be very careful and test thoroughly if such a combination is working as expected. Mostly I prefer to create more decisions.

You must have misunderstood about nested advanced actions I think.

For webinars, go directly to the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=list&loc=en_us&type=&product=Captivate&interest=&audience=&monthyear=

The webinars that have still to be presented are on top, and have a register link, those On Demand are below. The one I presented yesterday is not yet posted. For the other ones you'll have to scroll down a lot, they are also in the list for which you have already the link, look under Advanced actions topic.

Lilybiri

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