How to apply effect to one object after another is clicked..

[ryan schar]

Hello,

I have a smart shape button.  Advanced action on success.  The advanced action is : 1 show another smart shape.  2. apply effect to this smart shape.

It doesnt work.

I dont want to put the effects on the time line because the time line is typically at the end when the user clicks on the button, so I thought advanced actions would be my only hope.  Also, under "animation trigger", there is no "click event of a different object."

Any Ideas?

Any Lieve blog posts I can read? ; )

Using Captivate 9

- Ryan

[Ashish.K]

Hi Ryan,

I tried the same workflow you have described and it worked fine. Check the actions I have used:

https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/d9a9b9f3-f82f-42ef-9fa9-df2427a2822e

Can you show me your actions?

Regards

Ashish Kumar

[ryan schar]

Hi Ashish,

Actually, the only problem was that I could not see the effects in "Preview".  Once I published the project, I could see the effects.

Thank you!

[Ashish.K]

I didn't notice any issue with preview. Please make sure you have latest version of Captivate installed. You can always check for updates under Help>Updates.

Glad to hear that issue was resolved after publish.

Regards

Ashish

[Lilybiri]

How did you test? All functionality, especially for HTML output will only be visible after publishing and uploading to a LMS or webserver.

BTW, wished I had more time to blog about Captivate's many features that are not (always?) well documented.

[Ashish.K]

There is no need to upload HTML output to webserver or LMS in order to test the content behavior in Captivate project. Captivate provides you HTML webserver environment while previewing it from "Preview>HTML5 in Browser". SWF can be tested from "Preview>In Browser" in the same way.

Both of the above previewing option creates virtual environment on your computer same as a webserver and there is no need to test it on webserver until, you want to test any specific functionality.

Regards

Ashish

[Lilybiri]

Sorry, Ashish, both Rod and me have experienced that just previewing HTML in Browser will not always give the full functionality of a course. Why should that be?  A responsive course preview with Edge Inspect on a device seems to work better in most cases.

[Ashish.K]

Ideally previewing HTML5 in browser and Edge inspect should show same results until there is some difference in Desktop or tablet/mobile version of responsive output. Do you have any project you can share with me, I can take a look and check the problem?

Regards

Ashish

[Lilybiri]

Not at this moment but I have sent files over to the team in the past, and got that recommendation to upload to a server or a LMS. I cannot send client's files of course. Especially Learning Interactions cause issues when not uploaded after publishing.

[RodWard]

I think one of the most common problems I have seen is that for some reason the Captivate developer's system doesn't allow the built-in 'web server environment' to work.  There may be aspects of it that are getting blocked by the way their IT system is set up in a corporate environment where they're not expecting people to need to run their own web server.

Many of the people that log issues on this forum with non-functioning HTML5 content are claiming to be using the Preview in Browser options.  So I don't think it's safe to say that it will never give problems.