Creating advanced navigation in Captivate 8

[mattycole022]

Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with this issue.

I will give you an example to explain,

I have a button that is shown and active on every page of my project, when a user clicks on it, they are taken to a slide that helps understand what different acronyms mean within the business (call it a help page). The issue i have is that the user has to be able to return to the specific page that they were on before they clicked on the help page button.

Obviously, because you can access it on every page within the project, i cant just get the user to click on a back button to return as this wont return to the slide they were on before asking for the help page.

Are there any actions, conditional or otherwise that i can use to enable me to make this work the way i would like?

I would really appreciate any help, if anybody could give me any advice that would be great!

Thanks

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Create an action to trigger by that (shape) button so that it returns to the last visited slide:

There is some danger however: if they can navigate freely by any means from that menu slide, it is possible that they get lost.

For that reason personally I prefer to have such Help content grouped on the first slide (all objects), timed for the rest of the project and make it appear/disappear with a toggle button.

I hope this 'menu' button is also only one shape button timed the same way, not an instance of a normal button on each slide.

[mattycole022]

Thanks for the reply,

This seems to work great for my example, until I encounter any problems that is! ha

Just to clarify, I wouldn't be able to use this method to create my own custom TOC or Menu slide for example?

Thanks again,

[Lilybiri]

Which method? I told you that I prefer to have such Help content available everywhere using a toggle button and timed for the rest of the project. Same can be used for a menu, as I explained today in another thread (by you? maybe someone else).