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September 12, 2012
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Help with Multiple Options on a slide

  • September 12, 2012
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We are currently trying to create a portion on our captivate that lets the associate select two options then the will click submit and it will take them to a certain slide. It will go something like this: "Step 1) Select the month in which you were hired. (They obviously have 12 possible answers.) Step 2) Pick the number of days you will work during the week. (They have 4 answers to choose from)" Once they choose both the month and number of days, they will be taken to a particular slide. I figured there are 48 potential slides they could go to. I need to know the best way to go about this. Thought I figured it out....but nothing. Any help would be awesome!

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September 12, 2012

btw I'm using Captivate 5.5

Lilybiri
Braniac
September 12, 2012

Whow, again I regret so much that one of my feature request, to be able to concatenate text strings in Advanced actions never makes it on the priority list.

Perhaps (very late here) I'll have a creative idea this night but cannot promise anything.

Lilybiri

Lilybiri
Braniac
September 16, 2012

Hello,

I figured out a solution, where the conditional action needs only 12 decisions, but....

  • the slides to jump to have to be in a specific order, because I have to calculate the slide number (label cannot be used with cpCmndGotoSlide)
  • I didn't know the exact options for the days/week, presumed it was 1,2,3 or 4; slight change needed if those are other numbers
  • once on the correct slide, if there are more slides to follow that specific slide, you'll need another navigation button to jump outside of the sequence of slides

It would have been easier if the user can choose a number for the month, but I did go with the month identification.

Here is the idea (and I checked it out on an example):

  1. I presumed the slide to choose was slide 1. Next slides are Jan_1, Jan_2, Jan_3 and Jan_4; because slide numbering starts with 0, those slides have number 1,2,3,4; slides 5,6,7,8 are for February etc
  2. Created three user variables:
    1. v_month linked with a dropdown list (widget) in which the user can choose the month
    2. v_days linked with another dropdown list (widget) in which the user can choose the number of days
    3. v_slide which will store the slide number (index starting with 0) to navigate to; this will be calculated in the advanced action
  3. Created a conditional advanced action with 12 decisions (no other way to transform the month into a number, hence my second alinea, if you can cope with that you'll need no 12 decisions); I tried to make the decisions very similar so that the editing process is easy. Here are some screenshots:

If v_month was a number, v_slide could be calculated this way:

I created new variables, because realized it in the same file. The dummy variable is not really necessary, could have done the 3 calculations with v_slide, but thought it was less confusing.

Lilybiri