Conditional Actions

[beanie_star]

Hi there Captivate collective.

I'm using Captivate 9.

I have 7 headings on a screen. When you click on any of these headings, the blue check mark should appear next to that heading.

After you have clicked on, let's say two or three of these headings (and see the check mark), the text 'Correct! Any of these may be appropriate...' should appear (I currently have this text set up as a button)

Next, I need for either that 'Correct' script, or some other button to appear which will allow the user to click and continue the presentation.

I simply cannot get this to work.

Please let me know what variables, and actions to create.

Thank you!

[RodWard]

Take a look at this tutorial.  It explains how to do this.

Create a Dynamic Menu Slide in Adobe Captivate | Infosemantics Pty Ltd

[Lilybiri]

Since you are on Captivate 9, I certainly would use states and shared actions in this case. You can take the approach explained by Rod, have several examples on my blog as well but it would save time and make management easier if you used the new features. I plan to write out a blog post, but it is not yet written, sorry.

Will you allow the user to click several times on the same header or not? That is pretty important. If you don't allow multiple clicks, one variable v_counter will do the trick. If you allow multiple attempts you'll need a user variable for each heading.

You have to turn each heading into a button (use a shape button that has that text as label), and that button should trigger a shared conditional action.

[beanie_star]

As educational as that link is that you shared Rod, it unfortunately didn't help.

I am definitely making use of Advanced actions and variables. The problem is I cannot figure out the right construct of variables and advanced actions to make this work.

To recap the issue:

Of the 7 headings (the ones that have checkmarks), any TWO of those should be clicked before the user sees the text "Correct! Any of these may be appropriate..."

Of the 7 headings, the checkmarks should appear on click.

After the "correct" text appears, the user needs a way to navigate to the next slide.

If someone has a sample slide that contains these advanced actions, or can help me set it up, that would be appreciated. Here's what I had done.

and the second screen of the advanced action

[Lilybiri]

Rod will certainly help, since you don't want to use states, I'll keep away. I just want to ask one question: the button (click box?) has the same label as the variable it is associated with? Don't do that, each label should be unique.

[RodWard]

I gave you that tutorial link because it shows something similar being done with Conditional Actions.

But your case is a little different because you basically want the Next button to appear when ANY TWO of the menu items have been clicked, not when ALL of them have been clicked.

Your current second decision block is only going to show the extra button when ALL of the other buttons have been clicked. 

You need to use a counter variable that will be incremented when any of the menu buttons have been clicked.  Then your decision block that shows the extra button only needs to check that this counter variable has reached a value of 2 before it will show the extra button.

[Lilybiri]

Rod, what if the same menu button is clicked twice? In my first answer, which didn't get response, I asked if a menu button could be clicked multiple times or if it could be disabled? If they are not disabled I think that v_counter should be calculated by summarizing all the user variables instead of incrementing. Of course it is a bit cumbersome because there is no SUM function in Captivate, you have to create a sequence of 6 Expressions for 7 buttons. Alternative is a more complicated conditional action, testing if a button variable is already set to 1, in that case not to increment the counter.