Captivate project moves ahead when I click anywhere on slide despite next btn being hidden. Help!

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August 18, 2021
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Hi Team

I have created a simple eLearning course with next and back buttons, which are images as button, that I imported from my storyboard power point. On some slides the learner is suppose to go through all the interaction on the slide and upon the last interaction the next button appears. However, on preview when I click anywhere else on the slide, the project still moves forward skiping all the interaction.

How do I stop this?
What should my setting be On enter, On exit on the slide? And
When the next button is selected then what should be the setting on the Next button's Action tab?

So far I have tried using a click box but I don't find that to be a sturdy solution. Please help.

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RodWard

Community Expert

Just to clarify something that you said: "I have created a simple eLearning course with next and back buttons, which are images as button, that I imported from my storyboard power point. "

Could you please clarify:

Did you make these images from PowerPoint into buttons by using the Save as Image feature in PowerPoint before then bringing them into Captivate as a graphic to use as an Image Button?
Or did you import the entire PPT deck into Captivate expecting that the button actions you set up inside PowerPoint would translate over and work the same in Captivate?
If these buttons are actually image buttons that were added in Captivate, then did you set the On Last Attempt actions of the buttons to No Action so that clicking outside the button would not result in any action?

N

NJ24Author

Adobe Employee

Hi Rod

Thankyou for reaching out. So to your questions:

1. You are right, I made the images in power point and impoted the image and checked the use as button option to use it as a button and Action is go to next slide.

2. Nope, its what you said in Q1

3. Amm, I just checked and I had the 'Infinite Attempts' checked. So I unchecked it and the Last Attempts is on Continue.

Is that the issue? What is the correct setting? Please could you explain how these settings work ?

Many Thanks for your time 🙂

Lilybiri

Legend

Hi Both, thanks for your suggestions.

I am still trying to figure out Captivate. I feel like its too much of a code heavy and code specific soution that I dont understand. Kindly allow me some time to apply Rod's suggestion and preview my project. If I get stuck I will reach out on this tread. But thankyou for your time and solutions. I appreciate it!

Normally you do not need to code at all for the majority of interactions you want to achieve in Captivate. Some may try to persuade you that need JavaScript but I am personally not at all persuaded by that view.

May I use a comparison? If you plan to run a marathon next year, you will start planning a training schedule, and also buy the necessary equipment. Why do you expect to start using a feature-heavy application like Captivate without any planning?

I just popped in to ask you to post a screenshot of the timeline, and to clarify your goal. It may be possible to achieve it even in a simpler way than what Rod described. The Timeline is for sure a feature which can be used to avoid any use of advanced/shared actions and variables in some use cases. That was the reason I posted a link to one of the blogs about the Timeline. It is NOT the first blog post... If you did show the Timeline panel for the slide, it could be explained using YOUR timeline panel.

If you never opened the Timeline panel, look at the bottom of your screen. You should see the title 'Timeline' of that panel. Double-click that Title to open the panel.

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