Skip to main content
D
davidg51249733
Known Participant
November 12, 2015
Question

Can't get spaces to work in a concantenated string in an Advanced Action

  • November 12, 2015
  • 1 reply
  • 515 views

I'm just trying to take a text entry box variable and add some plain old text to it. I've succeeded in doing that but separating the text strings with spaces is stumping me. I tried putting spaces between quotes (e.g., "    ") and without quotes but neither seems to work. Just wondering if this is possible. I can't believe it isn't so maybe I'm missing a simple solution. Thanks.

    This topic has been closed for replies.

    1 reply

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    November 12, 2015

    Sighing...concatenation is an old feature request, wonder if it ever will work as expected. You can put the text string (space added) followed by a variable in a text container, but if you want to use an advanced action to concatenate you have problems. Captivate doesn't distinguish numbers and strings, the number 0 is the same as an empty string.

    JS is a workaround. Why do you exactly need to concatenate, can you explain the goal?

    D
    davidg51249733Author
    Known Participant
    November 12, 2015

    Wow - thanks for that quick response. I just want to reproduce something like this: "Willis,Sam  11/10/2015 08:12:59 AM EST > Suggested the patient call for an appointment as soon as possible."

    The text following the > symbol is a text entry variable, the rest will be plain old text, I guess I could use a date system variable, but the time system variable doesn't seem to give me anything that looks like this. My problem is the spaces between the variable and/or text. I know this is pretty easily done in Javascript and I could probably handle it (although I'm not a programmer), but I still don't understand how to get a Javascript result back into Captivate. I've seen a few other instances where Javascript would help me solve some relatively simple issues - I just wish I could find more information about how Javascript can be made to work with Captivate.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    November 12, 2015

    If you want to show this in a text caption, just add the spaces to the text itself?

    As for the date system variable, did you ever try cpInfoCurrentLocalDateString: it will look like the date you set up on your system. You'll have to combine it with a time system variable.

    As for JS: https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/using/common-js-interface.html

    Jim Leichliter was the expert to go to, but he left

    Maybe TLCMediaDesign, (David) will pop in?

    Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
    Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices