Check learner internet connection?

[jwessmiller]

Hi Experts! Does anyone know of a way to make a conditional action based on whether the learner has an internet connection?

Basically I want the module to display one thing if there is an active internet connection, and something else if there is not.  Is this possible?  I have both Captivate 8 and Captivate 2017.

Thanks so much for your help!

[Lilybiri]

???? How do you deploy the course without an Internet connection?

[jwessmiller]

Hi Lilybiri,

The learners are issued laptops with my modules pre-loaded on them.

[Lilybiri]

Are you aware of the fact that courses not deployed from a webserver will not have all functionality? Unless you create an app of course. Which output do you use: SWF or HTML5? Esoecially HTML5 is very sensitive.

There is no system variable AFAIK that you could use, probably will need a JS solution

[jwessmiller]

Thanks for the heads up- I haven't run into any functionality issues yet (most of my stuff is pretty simple).  I generally publish in HTML5.

[TLCMediaDesign · Accepted solution]

This JavaScript will do the trick:

var netConnected = window.location.protocol.indexOf( 'http' );

netConnected will be -1 if not connected and 0 if connected, so you can build your logic and use cp.show() to show what you want.

[jwessmiller]

Thanks for your reply, TLCMediaDesign.

I'm trying to implement your code, but it always seems to be coming back as -1 (whether I'm connected or not).  I'm new to javascript; is there any additional guidance you would be kind enough to give on this?

[TLCMediaDesign]

Try this:

if(navigator.onLine) {

cp.show("online")

}

else

{

cp.show("offline")

}

[jwessmiller]

I need to do a little more studying to understand how cp.show works- but your code worked great as an alert.  Thanks so much!