Captivate v12.5.0.35 - Interactions Issue

[Janice27927268d6c9]

Hi All,  

I am relatively new to Captivate and am working on a project, but I have a few issues.  I hope someone can share some insights into where I have gone wrong or what I have missed. I have included images below. There are a few issues I am having:

1. I have added a quote that appears centered in Captivate, but when I preview it, it is off-center. I have tried the other quote defaults, and none appear to center the quote. 
   
   
2. I have added a button bar, but it is left-justified, and I don't know how to space it evenly across the button bar.
   
   
3. I have set up custom interactions on the media image block below the button bar so that each button opens a different image, title, and text. I have the interactions set with no problem, but I can't figure out how to hide or remove the default image title and text so that when users go to the slide, there is a blank area below the buttons.
   
   
4. When I click on each button for the set interactions, the image, title, and text appear one after the other, and I have no transitions set on the interactions. How can I get them to appear at the same time?

Sorry for all the questions. Any direction or assistance on this would be greatly appreciated.

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Janice

[kdmemory]

Hi Janice279..

to 1) Select a Text Block Paragraph and uncheck under COMPONENTS the Title, so that only the Body remains. Next replace the default filler text with your short quote. This makes it easier to see whether the text is centered. Now make sure to select the text block (by default called Paragraph_1) and under DESIGN OPTIONS select a design option which centers the text. Then start to set the details of your quote, like font, size, style and so on.

Alternatively you can add a Media Block Quotes. Here a quote is centered with the default DESIGN OPTION. Just remove all unwanted Components.

to 2) After inserting a button block and setting it under COMPONENTS to the desired number of buttons hover your mouse over the greyed out TICK Button bit and this reveals four alignment options. To space them evenly select the fourth option Distribute the buttons uniformly.

to 3) Select the entire Image Block and in the Visual Properties panel on the right there's right on top this tiny monitor icon that when clicked activates Hide during publish. So when you publish your project the Image Block will be invisible at first and needs to be made visible through some interaction. Now with the buttons your need to make sure that not only the right state is selected, you also need to set the SHOW action first before SET STATE.

Of course if you want to be smart you create a variable like harassmentExampleIsVisible and set it at first to false or 0 because its not visible. Then with your buttons you create a condition which basically goes like

if (harassmentExampleIsVisible == 0) {
	show harassmentExample;
	harassmentExampleIsVisible = 1;
}

This way you make sure that the SHOW action is executed only once and not redundantly repeated on each button. Well you'll have to fiddle that one out for yourself.

to 4) "How can I get them to appear at the same time?" - Hm, the funny thing in Captivate is that you can hide and show the entire Image Block at once, but when you want to change (set) the states for your different harassmentExamples you have to do that with the image, the caption and the subtitle seperately. A certain delay between the different instances .. you probably have to live with that.

[Janice27927268d6c9]

Worked perfect.  Thanks for your assistance. 👍