How to Add a Free Form Simulation to part of the slides?

Report · Dec 09, 2016

I would like to have an overall training tool packaged as a free form solution that allows the user the click where they want BUT also has a "helper" on the same screen (next to the simulation) that talks them along. For example as the user clicks from screen to screen, the "helper" says (or written in text) the description of the screen and the options on the screen. I've been able to snip screenshots and paste them into Captivate, but my snips aren't entirely uniform and it doesn't look professional. Likewise, I am not able to utilize the simple simulation tool (which ironically gives me the perfect screen captures...) as it's just the simulation then and I want more on the screen. This isn't the easiest need to explain, I'm hoping this makes sense...

Bottom line - I am trying to provide my company with a sandbox type of tool for our CRM, without all of the development of the actual sandbox. So end result is an interactive dummy CRM with assistance from the "helper's tips" along side the simulation...and I need help! Haha! TIA.

Report · Dec 09, 2016

I don't fully understand, but why cannot you start with a captured simulation and add the features that you need to add? You can capture three or four files at once (demo, training, assessment, custom) adn copy/paste the slides you want to use to another project, then add static and interactive objects which you label as 'helpers'.

Report · Dec 09, 2016

Thanks for your response! I wanted the simulation to be on the slide but not the entire slide. It's an app simulation so the snips are small and there are many details that we'd prefer not to cover up with those objects. We'd rather have the objects to the side and the simulation next to it...I know it's unique, and confusing haha. Does this make more sense?

Report · Dec 09, 2016

Maybe the old work flow I explained in this blog post eons ago could help?

Create and Use a "Knockout" Master Slide - Captivate blog