Action calling action

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
August 4, 2016
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Does Captivate 9 allow you to call and action from an action? The forum responses say it can't be done in Captivate 7 and below and I was wondering if today it can be done in 9.

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Paul Wilson CTDP

Community Expert

If I'm not mistaken, Infosemantics Cp Extra widget can do this. Rod Ward if you see this can you weigh in on this?

Paul Wilson, CTDP

RodWard

Community Expert

Yes it can. But only if you are on Cp9 and only if you are publishing to HTML5.

AP_AWAuthor

Inspiring

It's your choice what you do.

But I don't understand why you think the widget won't run correctly on their system. If their system already runs Captivate 9 and can play HTML5 output then it will work.

Yes a license is required by each separate developer using the widget, but if YOU have a license, you can use the widget as many times as you want in as many projects as you want that are seen by any number of end users.

This widget is not difficult to insert into a Captivate project. It's really no more difficult than inserting an image. (Only more advanced developers might want to take advantage of the headless-loading feature that removes the need to insert the widget in each project because it automatically gets added.)

If you don't want to take responsibility for training other developers in how to use the widget, then just tell them to either read the comprehensive HELP files free online, or else buy the video tutorials that are available. Then they can teach themselves. That's what all the other CpExtra users are doing.

If the client wants to use the source files I give them then need to buy a license for the widget as well. I doubt I should say "By the way I used this great widget in your project and now you have to buy a license for it."

I'm not saying it won't run correctly but if it doesn't because, say, they mis-installed it then it would probably be my responsibility to address because I was the one that "made" them to get it.

No, it cannot work that way where I give them the source files and then I tell them that they need to train themselves on the widget. My gosh I can imagine the phone call I'd get if I told them to pay to watch some videos on how to use a widget I "made" them buy.

I guess it could work if they gave me approval to use the widget beforehand but certainly not after the fact.

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