D&D sequence action

I just made something along the same lines. Your idea can work if you have

1. A target drop zone around the original word location - I call mine "origin"

2. Separate drop zones for each word - space them out equally like in your drag source example. It won't look as nice as when tiled in a single drop zone, but it makes your exercise possible.

3. Variables

• for each word: correct, with 1 = correct and 0 = incorrect (v_word1_correct, v_word2_correct ...), initialized to 0
• v_numberOfWords, initialized to the number of words in the exercise
• v_totalCorrect, the sum of all correctly placed words

4. A Check button

5. Advanced Actions -

• For each drop zone you need an action for each word. Each action assigns either 1 or 0 to v_wordx_correct
• In dropZone1, if word2 is the right one, assign v_word2_correct = 1; assign 0 to all other words (remember to uncheck Continue Playing the Project!!)
• In origin, make actions that assign 0 to all words
• The Check button adds up all of the word_correct values and assign this to v_totalCorrect. If v_totalCorrect = v_numberOfWords, everything is in the right place; else give an error message. Because each word has its own correct variable, you can get fancier and have a message saying which word(s) is/are correct or not correct!

All words can be re-draggable. You can add a Reset button to start over, but you will have to make a custom one to reset all the v_wordx_correct variables to 0 again. It will also have to go to a blank page in front of this exercise that has a duration of 0.1 seconds or an On Enter action to go to your exercise page so that the drag sources will all go back to their start positions (as if the page was entered for the first time).

Layout

Variables

Drop actions

Check button - add values

Check button - all is correct

Check button - else incorrect

Feedback shape states

Game in progress - incorrect placement (I used a text caption to show the variable values)

Game correct - Next button appears!

Enhancements

• Use Advanced actions for each drop action so you can make the feedback shape disappear (normal state)
• Add a transparent smart shape that is hidden initially, but appears to cover the interaction when the game is complete to prevent more dragging
• Add a variable that counts all drop actions - after a set number of drops, Feedback displays a "too many tries" message and the correct answer, covers the interaction, and shows the Next button.
• Use states on the drag objects to have them change colour when they are in the correct spot
• I'm sure you can come up with more.....

Good luck!

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Bonjour !...

So... I try again this morning all your solutions... again without any success !

Captivate takes into account the order of the drag movement instead of the final position of the drag items.

So I think it's not possible to allow the possibility of re-drag the items for this purpose... (unless using the undo buttons... )

I will do that way so... Even if I'm not 100% pleased with this solution !

Thx for your help !...

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First of all, thanks for your answers !...

And here are some screenshots to clear what I need :

(Sorry Paul it's in french !... I know Lilybiri has no problem with it ! Hi hi !...)

So here I have a few words (my drags item). In this example there are just 7... So it's ok even if I don't need them to be re-draggable...

And here is my drop area... With tile selected...  And I select also Sequence in the Set correct answers type...

But in other exercises, I will have more than 7 items to drag... So it would be cool If the learners could re-drag them if they think they have made a mistake... But after, even if the order is finally correct, the submit message couldn't be the correct one !...

So I want Captivate to validate the right answer even after re-drag the words... (without submit before !)

Don't know if it's crystal clear now ^^ !!... Hope so !...

Thx anyway !...

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I don't really understand your question. Could you insert a screenshot of what yuo want on the stage 'words in correct order'?

You want them to be able to redrag items without having to reset all the drag sources?

Yes, I believe you can achieve your goals with the following steps. I created a drag and drop with five shapes all required to be dropped into a single drop target. I selected Reset All so that failed attempts would return all the shapes back to their original position, and I also added an Undo button to undo the last move if it was incorrectly selected.

I selected a Tile Snap behaviour to ensure the items are readable once dragged over.

Then I went to the Options tab of the Drag and Drop panel and clicked on Set Correct Answers. This opens the Correct answers window. From here you can change the type from Combination to Sequence. This will enforce the order of the items which you can use the up and down arrows to reorder if necessary. You'll see that labelling your objects becomes important when conducting this sort of work.

I did select Redrag the dropped source but I'm not sure this is really necessary. I only find this useful if there are other drop targets that might get drag objects accidentally dropped on them. In this case, the Undo button will cover off correcting the last mistakenly dragged items.