Aggregator EXE files won't run

Report · Nov 26, 2012

Hi,

I'm new to using Captivate and I recently created my first Captivate-based lesson. I have 5 discrete learning modules each with their own multiple-choice quiz, so I decided it would be best to make 5 different projects and then stitch them together using Aggregator. I want to publish both an APP file for Mac users and an EXE file for PC folks. The APP file I create in Aggregator runs just fine, but the EXE file won't run. There are no error messages, it just doesn't do anything when you try to run the file.

Here is what I have tried (without success):

Both XP and Win 7 (won't run on either)
Installing newest version of Flash Player
Running the EXE file as an Admin

Oddly enough, if I publish each of the 5 projects as an EXE separately, they run just fine. My back-up plan is to make the PC users open each of the 5 modules separately, but I'd prefer to avoid this if I can.

Am I doing something wrong in Aggregator? It seems pretty simple and the APP file works...

Thanks for any help!

Jess

Report · Nov 27, 2012

Your issue may be in one particular project. Try removing ONE of the projects in turn to see if you can successfully publish without one of them. If so, investigate that project to see if you can isolate a slide or object on it that is tripping up the publish process.

Report · Nov 27, 2012

Hi Rod,

That was a great idea. Unfortunately, none of the 5 Aggregator EXE files (each with one of the 5 projects missing from it) worked. I double-checked the 5 EXE files that I published individually directly from Captivate (without Aggregator) and all of them work just fine. It's looking like I need to go with plan B and just force my users to return repeatedly to the CD-ROM to open each subsequent module.

I asked a friend to run the Aggregator-created APP file on his Mac and it wouldn't run for him even though it will run for me on my Mac. So I'm thinking I will need to publish each of the 5 projects as separate APP files as well and the Mac and PC folks will be in the same boat.

Thanks,

Jess

Report · Apr 14, 2013

Jess, Did you ever get this resolved? I'm in the same boat.

Report · Dec 17, 2013

I have the same problem. I think that it may have something to do with ActiveX controls or Windows security but I haven't found a solution yet.

Report · Feb 06, 2014

I'm having this same problem too! Mac app from Aggregator runs fine, the Windows exe one just sits there and won't run.

Somebody must have solved this apparently common problem, right?

Report · Feb 07, 2014

Well, please tell me this, has anyone ever created a .exe file from Aggregator with a Mac that worked on Windows? If I were to try creating the same Aggregator file on Windows is it possible it would work?

Seem odd, at least to me, that Adobe can produce these applications that are just non-functional. (?)