Advanced Action to Reset Animation

[Tom_Janus]

HI,  I have a slide where the learner will click on a button and the advance action (AA)for the button will show an object (Red Arrow), and after a brief delay the arrow will move from Right to Left.  Then, after the arrow has completed the move, the  next AA will hide the arrow.  I want to program an AA to reset the arrow to its original location so the person can replay the action again.  Is this possible?  Thanks.

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Can you show the advanced action? Which version do you use and which output do you want?

The easiest way that will work in all versions and for both SWF and HTML5 output is to 're-enter' the slide. That will reset the effect, because you don't have to hide the arrow since you already did it with an action. Either you use the second scenario described in this blog post:

Replay (slide) Button - Captivate blog

Or if it is not working (HTML5 output in CP2017 has some issues with On Enter), you insert a short dummy slide before this slide (0,1sec) and use the command 'Go to Previous Slide'. I have described that in several more recent posts.

[Tom_Janus]

Lilybiri,  Thank you.  I put a blank slide after the one that I need to reset.  I put an invisible button over the button that needs to reset the animation.  At the end of the animation, the AA shows the button, the user thinks their clicking on the same button, but the reset button jumps to the next page, and on the next page is an AA to go to previous.  

[Lilybiri]

Just be careful to have two interactive objects in the same location! That can cause problems, especially for HTML5 output. You have to disable the button that shouldn't be active (the first one) when putting the transparent button on top of it.