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January 8, 2019
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Which function should I use to create an interactive selection and print the result?

  • January 8, 2019
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Hi everybody!

I am here again with a question that might change everything that I did until now in my current project. I will try to briefly explain what I am doing and which are my goals.

Project: I have a project that consists of a central mind map with several options in the shape of little square images. When you click in one of these images, you are redirected to a fact sheet page, with information about it. In this page, you can choose whether this option is relevant or not to you, by choosing YES or NO. If you click YES, you are redirected to the mind map and a positive tick will be present on top of the previously selected little square image. If you chose NO, you are redirected to the mind map and a cross will be showing on your little square image. Ideally, you should be able to click on this square again and decide again YES or NO how many times you want (until you are satisfied with your choice). In the end, you should have the initial mind map with either positive ticks or crosses on the square, depending on your decision about each option.

How I did: I did this by creating 3 buttons for each option (one of top of each other): in the bottom, a button with the square image with a cross, on top of it, a button with the square image with a positive tick and on top of all the previous two, a button with the original square image. I added to each button the action to 'jump to slide X', being X the number of the slide with the fact sheet of the specific square. In the fact sheet, I created a button YES and NO.

The button YES has the shared action to:

1) hide the button with the square image with a cross;

2) hide the button with the original square image;

3) show the button with the positive tick;

4) jump to the initial slide of the mind map.

The button NO has the shares action to:

1) hide the button with the square image and the positive thick;

2) hide the button with the original square image;

3) show the button with the cross;

4) jump to the initial slide of the mind map.

What I want: Once the person decided about each option (YES or NO) and has the final mind map with her/his choices made, he/she should be able to generate a PDF with this final screen. I want the person to take home the result of her/his choice in a beautiful mind map. For that, I do not know if I should change my entire way of structuring the project or if there is a trick that I can use to allow this type of action.

If you read until here and understood everything I said, I am already thankful. I am not a good writer and I think that the explanation may be quite confusing.

In any case, I would like to thanks in advance for any help!

Erica.

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RodWard
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Community Expert
January 8, 2019

You don't seem to be aware of how Object States work in Captivate. 

You don't need to create three buttons for each box.  You just need to create three custom states for each button and set them up as needed.

There is no default option in Captivate to generate a PDF output of a single slide.  The best you could hope for would be to suggest that they print out the final slide.  But that also usually comes with some complications because the default print options are often not suited to the orientation of the slide.

Known Participant
January 9, 2019

Hi! Thank you for your reply! I do not know much about the Object States in Captivate. I would like to explore it but, unfortunately, my Captivate is not working properly anymore. I will open another discussion topic in the forum, so other people who have the same problem can see it also.

Once this problem is fixed, I will explore the Object States in Captivate and, probably, I will return to this discussion with some questions.

Thank you one more time!

Lilybiri
Legend
January 9, 2019

Each button: text button, transparent button, image button, Shape used as button has by default 3 InBuilt states:

  • Normal state: shows up when you don't hover over the button
  • Rollover state: shows when you hover over the button
  • Down: shows when you press the button

There is a 4th InBuilt state, 'Visited' which is not automatically created but when you create it,, it will automatically appear after the button has been pressed.

You can add Custom states as well. All states are visibel in the Object State panel which you open with the State View button in the Properties panel of teh button. It will appear in the left docking staton where normally you see the Filmstrip. You leave that panel with the Exit State button in the Big Button Bar (last button).