Can I use the forward key to advance to a new point (action), not a new slide?

[RobertAHS]

When a user clicks the forward arrow on a Captivate presentation, they jump to the next slide. Is it possible to set up Captivate so that, when the user clicks the forward arrow, the next action occurs instead?

Right now, if a user clicks the forward arrow after one item has come in, they miss everything else visible on the slide.

I suppose a work-around could be to remove actions and add additional content to each progressive slide -- but I just want to see if I have any other options.

Thanks for your insight!

[Lilybiri]

I'm not sure to understand your question, have problems with the terminology (being not a native English speaker).

When you say 'forward arrow', are you talking about the Next button on a default playbar? Such a playbar is like a control panel, Next means going to Next slide, Previous means going to the previous slide. If you want another way of navigation, you'll have to create it yourself. Or you can split up a slide in several slides.

What do you mean by 'next action'? To me 'action' means one or more commands that are triggered by an event. Events are the Success actions of the interactive objects, or the On Enter and On Exit actions of a slide. You certainly don't talk about the latter, but can you explain what you mean by 'action' because it seems to be something different from the normal meaning in Captivate. Here is an article explaining 'action':

Events and (advanced) Actions - Captivate blog

[RobertAHS]

Thank you for the response Lilybiri,

Let me clarify.

You are correct, I was referring to the "Next" button.

My hope was that I could have the next button move to the next transition (for example, if I have 5 bullet points coming in one at a time, the "Next" button would bring in the next point on the list).

It sounds like this isn't possible if the Next button on the default playbar can only move to the next slide.

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Indeed, that playbar just has its 'stupid' buttons, and without a programmer nothing can be done about that.

To bring in bulleted lists one by one (I try to avoid bullets as much as possible however) I use a multistate object: each state adds an item. Then add a (shape) button to the slide and set its action to 'Go to Next State...'.  If you need slide audio, with CC you would have to use click boxes (that was the old way...), staggered on the timeline, and each bullet in a separate text container, staggered as well. The action for all the click boxes would have to be Continue.

[RodWard]

If you want the Next button on the playbar to move the learner to a different 'transition' then you'd just need to divide your current slide that has several such changes (transitions) into multiple slides with one transition on each.  THEN clicking the Next button on the playbar would take them to the next slide and transition.  If you set up the slides properly, it should work seamlessly.  However, in HTML5 each slide loads separately, so there might be a slight pause.