SWF Compilation Failed

I've fixed this on version 8 by removing the title of the slides in the properties tab and typing them back in.  Hope this helps someone.

So I performed a patch update to Captivate 8 and it solved the problem and took the error message completely away, hope this helps someone!

Hello,

I am using Captivate 8 and I too am getting the frustrating error message "Swf compilation failed. Note: Please verify if any of the actionscript keywords is used as user variable name."

I have no idea what this is about and it started happening on my 37th slide when I went to "preview next 5 slides"

Based on all of the suggestions in this thread I have tried:

-Changing my file name to exclude any special characters,

-Removing compression options

-Hiding, Un-hiding the quiz results slide

-Updating my folder location and cache location

All to no avail =( And it is weird because it lets me preview the project from any point before slide 37 but when I try to preview from that point forward I get the error message and now when I play my project, it doesn't show all of the playbar options to advance forward. One other thing not sure if it helps but this slide has many applied effects on it and when I tried to preview those before it wasn't working. I tried removing all effects and see if that would help but it didn't.

I am VERY far along in my project and can't afford any major issues for preview or publish. Please help!!

Captivate version 8 - Windows 7

After my pulling my hair out about this error for most of the day...   I thought that I had finally figured out my issue.

My project info did not contain any "     So I tried various other things...  copying and pasting slides to a new project etc.

I finally discovered one slide that had " in slide properties.    I thought this would fix...   but nada.

I have run into this on various versions of Captivate. Apparently, you can only have maybe 120 variables. I create some pretty lengthy captivate learning modules. Using a previous module, I rename it and delete most of the slide. Then I record the new content. What I find is that this does NOT remove the variables for objects like text_box_entry_1. Even if you go to the broken or unused items in the library and delete them, the variables remain. When you get to around text_box_entry_120, you can no longer compile. If you are not using the variables in the current project, you may delete them. I go thru the project and rename my text boxes to something less generic and delete the generically named entries. I can then successfully compile.

Well, this issue persists in Captivate 7. I received this error message for the first time today when I tried to preview a section I had just finished. I have a project with multiples slides, interactions, quizzes, video, audio, etc. I tried some of the solutions with no luck. Then I took the suggestion to hide slides in batches and eventually narrow down the culprit. For me it was the Quiz Results slide causing the issue. As I had added in some quiz slides today to work on later (templates I had already created), but am not working on that area today, I just deleted the quiz and results slides. When I actually need to finish the quiz and produce the project, I'll have to figure out what exactly it is about that slide that is causing this issue. Unfortunately, there seem to be so many different issues causing this error. Anyhow, of everything here (with so many people getting this error in so many different situations), the best suggestion so far seems to be hiding and unhiding slides to find out where the offender is, and then trying to figure out which one of the many possible issues is causing the error. I am rather frustrated to discover this issue has been ongoing since at least 2010 (with Captivate 5) and that it is still happening now, with no real fix.

Just had (and resolved) the same issue on Captivate 7 and OSX (latest lion).  In case it helps anyone.

Mine was a simple project, series of slides with mouse animations.  No quiz, TOC, etc.

So then worked through most of the previous suggestions:

• Text captions all include numbers in square brackets.  No issue as published multiple projects with the same.
• All text captions had a space between the square bracket and the text content. 
• Text captions did include some text in regular brackets as well.  Removed the round brackets just in case but still failed
• publishing and cache defaults were local drives
• I had no project variables.
• filename did not have an extra '.' or .cptx
• All captions had a blank name (or so I thought....)

So to narrow the search I did as was suggested earlier and hid batches of slides and kept trying to build the project until it let me. This allowed me to narrow the search down to 1 culprit slide.  Looking at the name of that slide and while blank it appeared corrupted.  Hard to describe but when selecting its content it was like selecting 6px text in a 12px box.  Only half the box changed colour with selection.

On recollection I do remember on one slide pasting the text content for a caption and it appearing as the caption name, not the caption content.  So probably when it went awry.

Guessing something corrupt so deleted that slide and recreated.  Project then compiled OK.

So in a nutshell:

- error appears to = dodgy character anywhere in the project

- show/hide slides until you narrow it down

- kill that slide and rebuild

Good luck!

Steve

I had this problem today with Captivate 6 running on OSX Mountain Lion. I probably had slide titles that were too long. I deleted all of the titles and it now publishes. Which brings me to another point...Why in the heck don't slide titles stay with the slides when you move them around and delete other slides. Man, this is very annoying. Captivate is coming a long way over the years. I look forward to less bugs in the future.

Oh yeah, bring back the stinking multi-scorm and roundtripping to those of us who own the master collection and captivate. I'll blow this trumpet until I get an email with exactly what I need.

I put together a whole project in (64)bit and got the actionscript error message when I tried to export it.  Tried the majority of fixes listed in these replies with no solution.  Installed the 32 bit version loaded the project and exported without problem.

Had this problem at work after we converted to Cp5. It is fixed for us now - here is what we noticed and how we fixed it.

1. We noticed that the error would only appear if the TOC was turned on. We would turn the TOC off and the file would publish without any issues. Which is great if you don't need the TOC, which we do. (so thinking mabye someone could work with that bit of information)

2. We use alot of text captions in Cp files to indicate a keyboard shortcut e.g . After reading about the problems with " and [] in this post, i went and removed all [] brackets in the Cp file, and sure enough, it published.

3. What we now do - for the existing files using [] brackets, we have merged them into the background - which works. For new Cp we are now using other methods, such as () and other common characters.

Another thing to note is that only captions with a square bracket followed by a letter cause the corruption, and to add to that, only if that same caption appears in more than 1 slide. e.g [Enter] appears on slide 1,3,6, etc... Numbers in square brackets have been working.

Hope this helps.