Does anyone know how to replay a video or slide using a button in captivate 8?

[petec98481658]

I have tried tutorials for older versions but to no avail in version 8.  I know it is possible with the advanced actions but cant get my head around it.

Cheers Peter

[Kurrykid-jzpfVq]

Create the button and then add an action to it: On Success, Jump to slide" and select the slide.

Is that what you're looking for?

HTH

Dave

[petec98481658]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply,

Unfortunately that doesn't work as it wont let you select the current slide.

I have also tried putting a slide in previous for .01 of a second but when it goes onto the next slide the slide will play instead of pause as it has been commanded on enter.

Thanks anyways

Peter

[Lilybiri]

To replay a slide you need this advamced or shared action:

Expression cpCmndGotoSlide =cpInfoCurrentSlide - 1

Continueo

The reason for the minus 1 is that index of the first system var starts

with 0, whereas the info var starts with 1. You need to add Continue to let

the playhead proceed

[DieterVR123]

Great answer Lilybiri!

petec98481658​ asked to replay slide or video. So what about slide with video?
Any solution when having a event video that plays (and loops) separately from the timeline?

[DieterVR123]

The answer to my question concerning event video was easier than I thought:

Comment (moderator): this work flow is only for SWF output, and in certain circumstances. It will not work for HTML output, nor responsive projects. That is the reason why I even didn't mention this old work flow (I used it before HTML hype started) in my article:

Replay (slide) Button - Captivate blog

@DieterVR123: Wanted to add this to your answer,

[DieterVR123]

For HTML we found some kind of "workaround":
This is not 100% perfect, since jumping to a blank slide (for example; a white slide, or same background as your slides) and waiting 0.1 second to jump back results in a little flicker.

[Lilybiri]

I have a blog post about two scenarios for a Replay slide button. Can you

search on the blog: http://blog.lilybiri.com

[fjsphuynh]

This guy has a video on how to repeat a slide and surprisingly this made a video replay too. I'm not sure what version AC he was using. I am using AC 9 and it did not work for me.

Captivate 6: Slide Mute and Slide Replay (without a playbar) - YouTube

[Lilybiri]

It is in the title of that video CP6. That guy used to produce videos with some bugs in it (I warned them about it but he ignored that) and lacking information. That seems to be the case in many YouTube videos, sorry to tell so. This video was "inspired" on my article about MicroNavigation.

[fjsphuynh]

For some reason I missed seeing the words Captivate 6. Anyway, navigating within the timeline reminds me of Flash. I tried to nest two slides into one using frame navigation. It worked fine with web browsers and ipad. However, this became a big hiccup for ipad when I inserted a video in the timeline. I learned how to use Frame Action from:

http://blog.commlabindia.com/elearning-development/go-to-frame-action-in-adobe-captivate7   

[Lilybiri]

What about Micro-Navigation in Adobe Captivate - Captivate blog  

[Kurrykid-jzpfVq]

I didn't realize you were trying to replay the same slide even though you said you were 😉

I did some basic testing and this worked:

We can use the action on the slide to set a variable when the slide is entered which will help:

1. Create a new variable that gets assigned when the slide is entered. For example, Slide2Status and set the default value to 0.
2. Now go to your slide, select Action, Assign, select the new variable you created and put a 1 in the With field (we are changing the value from 0 to 1)
3. Create a conditional advanced action and set it up so that if Slide2Status = 1, them jump to Slide 2 (screen shot attached)
4. Assign the Advanced action to the button

It worked for me...hopefully this will work.

Dave

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

That is very complicated, Dave. Did you try my solution that I have posted

multiple times?

[Kurrykid-jzpfVq]

That solution works as well (with less steps).

Thanks.

[petec98481658]

Thanks Lilybiri, that worked great for me.

[petec98481658]

Hi Dave, thanks for your reply.  I have tried it and have had success thanks again

[petec98481658]

Thanks for your help everyone I was stumped with this and I appreciate the solutions.

Enjoy the Weekend

Cheers

Pete

[Sherry0570]

I've tried this solution without success. I also tried the more complicated solution where you set a variable on Enter and set the expression based on the variable. Both solutions cause my basic animation to fail, meaning the audio plays but the animation does not. If I click pause and play a couple times, it works. I'm on a PC using 9.0.2.4. Can anyone help?

[Lilybiri]

I answered in your thread, please don't do double posting, it is just more work for me.