hide intro slide

[justinm53961168]

I want to show the Intro slide (which is the 1st slide), but NOT show it again after it plays.

I was trying to 'Hide Slide' (the Intro slide) but when I select 'Hide' within Advanced Action it doesn't list slides as an object to hide.

How would accomplish hiding the intro slide after it plays one time?

[Lilybiri]

Hiding slides can only been done while editing, and its consequence is that the slide will not be included when published.

You'll have to create custom navigation, to prevent that the user visits that intro slide again. This means: no default playbar, taking out the visibility of that slide from the TOC if  you allow TOC for navigation.

[justinm53961168]

that is unfortunate - seems like a common thing to do.

I was doing this without a TOC.

Intro slide -> main slide-> then video content slides.

When I 'Go back' from video content slide I wanted it to skip Intro via variable 'If 'vidslide=1' skip intro'

not possible?

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

It is possible with an advanced action On Enter for the Intro slide as well. I used such an approach in:

Limit Review to Incorrect Answers (Captivate 6) - Captivate blog

When the user presses Back on the video slide just after the Intro slide, the playhead will re-enter that intro slide. This could be a work flow:

• create a user variable v_intro, with default value of 0
• create a conditional advanced (or shared) action to be triggered On Enter for the Intro slide, with two decisions
  1. IF v_intro is greater than 0
         Go to Next Slide
     ELSE
          Continue
  2. Increment v_intro

Sequence is important of course

[justinm53961168]

exactly what I needed!:) it worked:) thank you!

[Lilybiri]

You're welcome!

[TLCMediaDesign]

For html5 we have developed an add-in that will disable Any of CP's playbars back button. It could easily be customized to have it work just on slide 2.