capturing the hostname to be recorded as a variable in Captivate

[richardb42202707]

I am looking to record which PC a training was taken at. Is this possible? Thanks

[BDuckWorks]

Yes, but it will be invasive to the trainee. And monitor live for odd-keyboard combinations that my interrupt their flow.

Will they know they're being recorded?

You'll need to have Captivate installed on the PC, setup a recording session, have them start training, and when they're done, switch back to Cp to end the session. Hoping the whole time that they don't switch to Cp on accident, as it will end the session.

If you're only wanting a movie of what they did, you might want to use a screen recorder rather than Cp.

[richardb42202707]

I am only looking to capture the pc name. I don't need to record a session. I am looking to use a variable that will be recorded to capture the pc name only of which machine training was done on, if that's possible. there are many pcs that can be used and I have noticed two individuals seem to always finish their training at the same time. every month. that is almost a improbability.

[BDuckWorks]

My apologies, I focused on the recording keyword and missed the 'capturing the hostname.'

You'll likely want to look at the Common JS interface and research capturing that information in JavaScript and returning it to Captivate.

BTW, you're looking to populate a captivate variable with (PC OS) system information. There's no recording involved.

[richardb42202707]

ok I will look there and see if I can figure it out.

[TLCMediaDesign]

It's not possible with JavaScript due to security reasons.

[richardb42202707]

is their a way to capture it then?

[TLCMediaDesign]

You may be able to use server side scripts to get the info.

Can I ask why you need the computer name? Maybe there is another solution that is more feasible.

[richardb42202707]

there are quite a few pc's that the training can be taken at and I was asked if we could  capture which pc was used when an employee takes a training. I am currently deploying the monthly training as individual modules that record to their own spreadsheets. It was asked if we could also capture the pc used to take training on the spreadsheet as well.

[RodWard]

You might have more luck trying to capture the IP address of the computer instead (unless of course it's a dynamic IP).

[richardb42202707]

ok that works for me. is there an easy way to do this? thanks in advance

[TLCMediaDesign]

Again, I think you'll need third-party server side scripts.

You may be able to do it with activeX but those computer would need to be setup to allow the script. I don't think it would be across browser compatible.

[RodWard]

Dave is correct that it usually involves server side scripts.  But there are some web services that advertise ability to do these things, but it would appear that you still need to have some good technical skills to get what you want.

Some info here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391979/get-client-ip-using-just-javascript