CP8: Pausing the timeline

[emilywood02]

I keep making advanced actions to do everything and I feel like I'm making this far more complicated than I need to.

On my slide, I have a sentence that is color coded. When the learner clicks on part of it, a box comes up showing more detail. I have these set up so that the pause button is before that of the "next" button to advance the slide. I also have the actions setting to go to "pause" if clicked a second time. No matter what I do, it keeps advancing. How can I have the slide stop until the learner literally clicks on next?

[RodWard]

More recent versions of Captivate (AFTER Cp8) now have an extra check box in the Properties for interactive objects when you select a SHOW or HIDE action that allows you to DESELECT the behaviour for Continue Playing the Project. 

This checkbox means you don't need to resort to using a Standard or Conditional Advanced Action to perform some simple Show or Hide action without having the timeline continue.

Unfortunately, Captivate 8 didn't have this option and the workaround is to use the Advanced Actions. So if possible, I recommend you look at upgrading your Captivate version.

[Lilybiri]

What Rod tells, I have explained in an older post (has a link to a YouTube video as well):

Why choose Standard over Simple action? - Captivate blog

But you were already telling these were advanced (or shared?) actions, so I'm wondering how the actions do look (to show the popups). Difference between pausing points and absolute pauses is explained in this more recent article:

Pausing Captivate's Timeline - Captivate blog