Captivate 9 Linking projects together going both directions

[wdolphin]

I have created 6 Adobe Captivate Projects.  I can get the project linking to work going one direction but not the other.  Sample below on how I set them up.

Main Menu - Shows name of each course and links to each of the projects listed below - This works

File A - Cannot get this file when they click on the button to go back to the main menu 

File B-Cannot get this file when they click on the button to go back to the main menu 

File C-Cannot get this file when they click on the button to go back to the main menu 

File D-Cannot get this file when they click on the button to go back to the main menu 

File E-Cannot get this file when they click on the button to go back to the main menu 

I placed a copy of the Main Menu published folder into each of these published callees folders - 

Not sure what to do .  - I am publishing at HTML5  and not using a LMS

Thank you 

[sdwarwick]

can you please provide more information?   when you say "click on the button to go back"  which button exactly?  what action has been set up with that button? what actually happens with you try to go back?   

There are a few different ways to make this happen,  typically you would set a "button" in the chapter file that has an action to "open a file or URL"  with the location set to the main menu file you are trying to open.  The file specification is relative to the location of the chapter file you are displaying.  The "back arrow" and "forward arrow" on the browser should also work.    If you are trying to serve this to others,  you would need to have a webserver of course.

[wdolphin]

I am using the Open new project in the Properties and then chose the file location.  I have placed all published files in the Callees file.  It works when I go from the menu to the project and then when I click the end of the project to go back to the main menu - Using th Open New project in the Properties it does not. - 

[sdwarwick]

This is likely a simple problem of setting the right file location.  Not sure what system you are using,  On windows, Captivate seems to want to use a very old way of referring to directory structures.  I've been able to get it to work by setting the urls in "open another file or URL" like this:

callee:  ../index.html

menu:  callee/index.html

a fully qualified file name from the top of the directory structure did not work.  

[wdolphin]

I know I getting closer still have some issues.  I am using Windows 7- Captivate 9 -Publishing as HTML5 - Not using a LMS.

I can have changed to using the -Propertines URL/File area instead of the Open Project. 

I have my file path from the main menu written like this  

C:\xampp\hdocs\captivate\TVEPP\index.html  - This is the file path to the first project outside of the Main Menu file.  (I can get this to go there when I click the main menu button for this project)  

Once I have completed the TVEPP project file and on the last page I have this button linked to this file path.

C:\xampp\htdocs\captivate\TVE Main Menu\index.html  - This works and takes me back to my Main Menu

-Now the Problems start 

-When I go to my next project from the Main Menu - Here is the file path 

C:\xampp\htdocs\captivate\TVETVE\index.html      - This does not work - (Note: This is the second button in my main menu - If I click this button after completing the first project and returning to the main Menu it does not work)  Although if I click this button the first time I enter the Main Menu before going to the first project then this button works.

-Not sure what to change -Any help would be appreciated. 

[RodWard]

These are NOT relative links.  Do some Googling on the web for basic instruction about the difference between a Relative link and an Absolute link.  Then you need to change the links.

[sdwarwick · Accepted solution]

Rod is correct,  please consider using the form I suggested in the response above -  it  doesn't include the full path.

callee URL:  ../index.html

menuURL:  callee/index.html

including the full path didn't work for me either!

[RodWard]

DON'T use the Open Another Project option in the Properties menu when setting up any kind of link.  That option works in a totally useless way (in my opinion) because it expects that your published output will be in exactly the same location as your CPTX project file is currently residing (AND it will probably only be expecting the file to link to should be an HTM for an SWF output, not an HTML file used in HTML5 output). 

Use the Open URL or File option and (as the poster above explained well) set up a Relative Link to the HTML file of the project output that needs to be called.