Adobe Captivate 7 - How can I create a Pop Up Window which I can use as an imprint, disclaimer or something else?

[Guest]

Hello,

I have produced an e-Learning in Adobe Captivate 7, which consist of a vertical menue and a horizontal menue. The vertical menue on the left side of the screen is the table of content of the e-Learning. It consists of all the learning themes of the e-Learning.The horizontal menue is located on the upper side of the screen. This menue consists menue points like "imprint"and "disclaimer". They are textlinks / Hyperlinks. How can I reach, that it will open a Pop up window over the e-Learning after clicking of the menue point "imprint" or "disclaimer? The Pop up windows should have the same design as the e-Learning for itself.

Thank you for your answers!

[RodWard]

Probably the easiest way to do this is by creating your 'popups' as rollover Shape objects placed on one of the first slides of your project and timed for REST OF PROJECT.  Then you set the rollover hit area of these objects to be positioned over the top of your hyperlinks so that rolling over the hyperlink will make the popup appear, but moving the mouse away will make it disappear again.  You can of course also use Advanced Actions and mouse clicks, but that's more complex and you don't sound to be an experienced Captivate user so far.

[Guest]

Thank you RodWard‌.

I have read that this will work with advanced actions but during my research in the Internet I didn't find some instructions. Can you nevertheless explain how to create this actions step by step? I prefer this solution instead of reoll over Actions...

[Lilybiri]

Is it just being able to show the same popup on each slide when the menu item is clicked? How do you want it to disappear?  Do you allow the user to come back to the slide (maybe by navigation by TOC)? You will want to have the slide reset to its original setting I presume, which will need another advanced/shared action using the On Enter Slide event§. You have always to take into account every possible situation, before writing out the advanced (or shared action). On my blog you'll find a lot of examples of advanced/shared actions. But I will not upset Rod, he published a book about Advanced actions.

Shared actions are more limited in CP7 then in CP8, but this example (look at the movie) could offer you some inspiration:

Dare to Share - part 1 - Captivate blog

[RodWard]

Lieve is correct.  In order to give any instructions, you need to specify HOW you wanted these 'popups' to work.  Can you be more specific?

[Guest]

Hi Lieve, Hi Rod,

Here is my description of including the pop ups in my e-Learning:On each slide the same pop up should appears when the user is clicked on it. The pop ups should be closed by a cross like you know it from pop ups in the internet. The pop up should be opened in the foreground above the slide. The slide on which the user has clicked on the hyperlink to open the pop up ist still in the background. After clicking the cross of the pop up window the user Comes back to the slide.

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

This would be my approach:

• Create all the objects for the popup on the first slide, group them (Gr_Popup) and time them for the rest of the project, Place Object on Top checked. Do not forget to include the X button, ,which should be a shape button because a normal button cannot be timed for the rest of the project. Since a shape is also a text container, this cannot be a problem.
• Create an advanced action 'HideGroup' that you'll execute On Enter for each slide to Hide Gr_Popup, same advanced action can be used for the X button. You could create a shared action as well, with as only parameter the group. Depending on the setup of the slide, maybe it can be necessary to add the Continue statement for this action if used On Enter. No need for it for the X-button action.
• Use another shape button for the 'to be clicked to show the popup' action. For this one you have the choice:
  • either on the main master slide (be sure to have master slide objects on top for the daughter master slides), since you don't need to control (Show/hide) this button by any action
  • or also on first slide and timed for rest of project
• Create another advanced (or shared action) with statement 'Show Gr_Popup'

[Guest]

Thank you very much! Your description was very helpful! I could program the pop up function correctly. Now I came to the idea that using advanced actions could be a solution to program a TOC for my own, also to show the working progress of the chapter with symbols (3 symbols: 1 = chapture not started, 1 = chapture - work in process, 1 chapter is finished, which are shown or not shown depending on the Status. The names of the chaptures could be hyperlinks to the first slide of this chapter to make it possible that the user can navigate for his or her own. What do you mean? And where do I have to place this actions because now there are already defined actions on the slides when they were reached e.g the title of a slide fades in when she is reached. So would it be the best solution to create this function in the .cptl-file?  

[Lilybiri]

I have marked this thread as 'Assumed Answered', did't want to mark any answer as Correct or Helpful, because that is your responsibility.

Personally I almost never use a template file (cptl) anymore, since Themes arrived in Captivate (including Object Styles, Master Slides and Skin) and with the new functionality of shared actions that has been improved in Captivate 8.

Isn't the Captivate TOC sufficient for your goal? If not, I would put the TOC on the main master slide. You can have shape buttons on master slides, and shared actions that Jump to slides and show the symbols will do the trick. Slides will be parameters, and you have to put the symbols on the first slide, timed for the rest of the project because on master slides they don't have an ID to allow to control them by a shared/advanced action.

This is really a new subject. May I invite you to start a new thread, for the sake of other users looking for a similar solution? Title of this thread (you didn't enter any tags) is not relevant for a custom TOC.

[RodWard]

Take a look at this tutorial:

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate/template/03-dynamic-menu-page

[Guest]

I placed the layoutet pop ups on the first slide. I acitvated for them that they are visible for the rest of the project, so the black double arrow appears in the timeline for zhese objects.

Now I recognized that after exporting I can open these pop ups correctly and click through it (the Help PopUp considered out of 4 different popups) only on the first slide, On the other slides there a kind of different problems. Sometimes the pop ups could not be closed, the help pop up isn't shown correctly. The buttons on the help Pop up are disapeared and so on?  I have already a look at the master slides whether the hyperlinks are linked with the correct advanced action but this seems to be correct. What could then be the reason for this not constant display and function of these programmed Pop ups?

[Lilybiri]

Did you check the option 'Always on top'? Maybe they are covered by other objects?

[Guest]

Hi,

I have checked this option. All the buttons to click through the four help pop ups are visible now. But unfortunately to Close and navigate through the pop ups doesn't works correctly on all slides. the pop ups can not be closed on some slides.   What could despite the check box you named be the problem of this?

[Lilybiri]

Do you have shape buttons in exactly the same location?  In that case you don't only have to show/hide them but also to enable/disable. Be careful about the sequence: first disable 1st button, then hide 1st button, then show 2nd button, then enable 2nd button.

[Guest]

Hello,

I thought I have posted this in this forum but I couldn't find the answer anymore .

What was the solution to stop the playing audio of the slide during the pop up is opened?

Thanks,

Erika

[Lilybiri]

You can use Pause (or set cpCmndPause to 1) to pause everything while the popup is opened (in the same action). Do not forget to use Continue when it closes (or use cpCmndResume).