Drag and Drop Messages on DropFailure

Report · Dec 30, 2017

Hi All.

First post and a freshie, so please be kind. That said I have had some experience in other coding disciplines so I am not too dumb.

I am trying to create a drag and drop which gives feedback on a 'dropsuccess' and a 'dropfail', here is the scenario.

I have two targets a 'bin' and a 'safe'.

I have 6 sources, 4 are 'bad passwords' and 2 are 'good passwords'.

The idea is that if the user drops a bad password in the bin or a good password on the safe (i.e. a drop success) they get a message as to why it was the correct thing to do. I manage this by changing the state of a multi state object 'Feedback text box' to provide feedback and as the feedback may take some time to read then this stays on the screen until another password is dropped.

I want to also provide feedback when the user drops a good password into the bin (i.e. a drop failure) but I cannot figure a way to this for any significant period of time. I have tried the 'Display ... On Reject' but this feedback disapears very quickly.

I am reading about Multi state drop targets (I am using Captivate 9) but can't seem to find any information on how these can be set up or might work.

Any advice on any possible solution.

Mark.

Report · Dec 30, 2017

Can you tell what you have been reading already? Just a checkup: are you on the latest version of 9 which is 9.0.2.437?

Drag&Drop objects can have InBuilt states, not sure they can be useful, but I tried to give an overview in this article:

Built in States for Drag&Drop objects | eLearning

For the D&D slides you can use both the actions after Submitting (depends on the number of attempts) and the Object actions which will occur after each dragging immediately. I suspect you already discovered them? Another, older article:

Drag&Drop tips - Captivate blog

Be careful with the actions after Submit, because in case of multiple attempts, the wrongly-called 'Failure' action will be executed only after the Last attempt. This is an example of wrong wording.

More recently, ,I wrote this blog psot, based on a similar answer on this forum:

Custom Failure Messages/Attempts - Drag&Drop - Captivate blog

Sorry for all those links, some tell me that it is just noise,. At this moment I cannot really offer you a direct answer, needs some more information:

Is it a scored D&D or just a Knowledge Check?
How many attempts do you want to offer?
How did you set up so far the feedback with the multistate text container?