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August 25, 2016
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Tabbed TOC

  • August 25, 2016
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I have another TOC question.  My client would like to have a tabbed TOC with tabs for overview, Search, and Glossary.  Is this possible?  I'm using Captivate 9.

Thanks again.

Tracy

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    Participant
    August 26, 2016

    Thanks for the help.  I am going to tell the client that it isn't an easy option at this time.  It's on their wish list but isn't a requirement so they may let it go.   As RodWard mentioned, they did refer to Storyline which does have the nice tab feature for the TOC.  Too bad this isn't available in Captivate. .

    RodWard
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    Community Expert
    August 26, 2016

    Your client has probably seen courses created with Articulate Storyline or similar.  It's player can be configured to have tabs in the TOC area for different requirements.  Unfortunately Captivate's TOC is much more limited and cannot currently be configured to have extra tabs.

    To achieve anything similar you would need to create your own navigation.  Would be quite a lot more work.

    Inspiring
    August 25, 2016

    Hi,

    Unless you understood what BDuckWorks wrote, I would say no. You may however offer them a compromise. You can have Search enabled outside of the TOC, you can create Glossary page with a widget which will show up in the TOC. So its not tabbed but they will get the functionality they are looking for.

    Cheers

    Steve 

    BDuckWorks
    Inspiring
    August 25, 2016

    You'd have to manage the links in a 'master' Cp file, and have each course link back to the master.

    You'll want to publish the Lesson files to a local webserver, build the 'master' file last, so that it can link to each of the lessons.

    You'll wind up managing the filenames and links, and you'll need to pass variables back and forth between the files using JavaScript to allow tracking of lesson completion within the course.