Please help! I am creating a forklift safety training module. There are 12 buttons on the first slide (see screenshot 1); however, only 11 are visible at the start of the slide. The 12th button is a ‘continue’ button that appears only after all the content slides (slides 2 through 12) have been viewed by the learner. I used a conditional action to hide the button (something I learned from @Lilybiri) until all conditions have been met.
The Problem:
The ‘continue’ button does not always appear after the content slides have been viewed. I found that I can make it appear by going back into each content slide and viewing the slides a few seconds more before returning to the main slide—this seems to complete some condition that tells Captivate to show the ‘continue ‘ button. Of course, I do not want learners to be faced with the challenge of trying to figure out why they can’t continue. I simply want them to visit the pages related to each button to have all of the conditions met.
Screenshot 1: The initial screen (actions related to changing button color below)
Screenshot 2: Timeline of the main interaction page
Screenshot 3: Conditional Action to display the CONTINUE button (created as a 2nd decision off of the 'Carriage' action).
My expectation was that OnEnter, the slide view would be recognized as viewed and count toward the condition that all 11 content pages would be viewed before the 'continue' button appeared. I set the time to 3.0s (see screenshot above) on all content slides. No transitions, no effects.
Screenshot 4: Each content slide is returned to the main interactivity slide by an OnSuccess: Jump to Slide command. Nothing special here. I tried reducing all content slides to 1.5s to no avail.
Screenshot 5:An example of the interaction page BEFORE all content slides have been viewed and before the 'CONTINUE' button appears (ignore the footer buttons; that was just me experimenting with button styles).
That's a lot, I know. I wanted to cover all of the basis. I would really appreciate your thoughts and expertise. Thank you in advance!
Michael
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How about this which is probably really close to what you already did.... (After double checking all your advanced actions for bugs)
Each button on the main menu sets the "viewed" variable as 1, hides the active button, shows the visited button, then jumps to the content. Alternatively you could put the action on the close button for each slide like you did.
Then on your main menu you'll have the conditional action On Enter that checks that each "viewed" variable is 1. If it's true then it'll show
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Thank you for your reply, Lilybiri. My statement was directed at Advanced Actions in general. Until I recently watched a recorded Adobe webinar with you as the trainer, I didn't even know the difference between User Actions and System Actions. The webinar was from a few years back; you showed the difference between the action types and used music, drum icons, and a picture of your niece (I think that's what you said). I truly appreciated the insight provided through the webinar and your blog.
Concerning the actions for this project, I do not have a preference--I am just interested in creating the correct outcome on the interface. Here is what I did with your feedback:
1. I removed all instances of Execute Advanced Actions from OnEnter
2. I created a variable for each of the content page buttons that will return the learner to the main page (you said "I would have expected the action with the two decisions (Always and...) to be triggered by the On Success event of the button that is clicked")
example: v_returnfromCarriage; value=0
3. I created the following advanced action to be triggered by the OnSuccess event of the button for each content page:
This is the preexisting action to change the appearance of the visited button (next screenshot shows Action 2 and Action 3)
I added Action2 (see image below) to assign the 'continue' button on the main page with 1, theorizing if I do this with each return button, I could create a total value of 11 to display the button (see image 3/Action3). I then added the Jump to Slide action (which now does not return the learner to the first slide when I push it. I do not know if it is actually assigning the button with a value)
I also added a third decision to the action (Action3) thinking that this would make the button appear only after a total of 11 points (1 from each button click from the content pages) was assigned. I am not sure if this is what you meant?
That was my attempt based on what I understood from your reply. You did mention that "On Success event of the button that is clicked, but I miss the navigation statement in that case (Jump to slide...). That is mostly my approach." Am I missing something with your approach? How do you resolve the problem of Jumping back to the first slide without adding an additional button on the interface? I am pretty new to this and know I am probably missing something simple. All the tutorials make this look so easy. Thoughts?
Concerning Cp8, my company approved the upgrade for August, but we are trying to implement this training for our employees before that. I can't wait to try the new features like Shared Actions--I have been reading a lot about them.
John, I took the approach you recommended and all the pieces fell in place. I have much to learn to figure out exactly what I did wrong; however, I am now able to recreate the effect in a variety of conditions. Just in case it is helpful to others, here is the working solution.
First, I created the variable for every button (shown in previous posts of this discussion thread). I created an action for each content button (i.e. Carriage, Counterweight, Overhead, Forks, etc.). They were all written following the logic below (screenshot 1).
Screenshot 1
My next step was to create an action to make my 'CONTINUE' button appear only after all slides had been visited. This action told Captivate to verify that all the specified variables each had a value of 1. Of course, since they were assigned a value of 1 (see first action line in on screenshot 1) when the learner clicked the button on the main page, the only requirement is that the learner clicks the button that sends them to the individual content slides.
The magic (as you suggested), is in the action created to tell Captivate to check if conditions have been met each time the learner returns to the main slide (with all of the buttons on it). With nothing selected on the slide, I was able to add the action a_sysContVerify as an action On Enter. Once the condition was met (all 11 content slides had been visited and therefore each had a value of 1 added to the variable), the 'CONTINUE' button would appear.
Again, I am not certain what went wrong with my previous method; somehow all of the conditions were not met and variable were not being changed. This method works great for me. I hope your solution helps other novices like me in the future.
Thank you!
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