How to display elapsed time / total time on published Captivate tutorial

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March 17, 2021
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I am trying to display the elapsed time / total time on my published Captivate tutorial and can't figure out how to do it. Like you see on a YouTube video, for example 1:31 / 5:30. I checked the skin editor and don't see it there. I checked the list of variables, and only see an elapsed time in milliseconds. Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you!

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Lilybiri

Brainiac

You are confusing two different times. I label them as:

Developer's time, which is what Rod points out as appearing in the TOC
Learner's real time spent on the course; the system variables you are referring to are from that category. The timer and hourglass interactions also show that type of time

I have created several blogs about showing time. Here is one link:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/display-time-cp2019

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sandy.pflugAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you for the response! I guess it's developer's time that I'm looking for, but there is no need for a TOC on these small projects. They only cover one topic each, so it's irrelevant. I'm just looking to turn on a simple timer like you see at the bottom of YouTube videos.

Lilybiri

Brainiac

Hi, I'm looking for progress in the overall course / total time of overall course. It is more than one slide.

Apparently you do not understand what I explained. Nor did you look at those blogs.

Typically a slide without audio has a duration of 3 seconds. But that slide may have a pausing point, because you want the learner to click/reveal several buttons and read/watch all what is popping up. It may take the learner 1-2 minutes to do that. Which time do you want to show???? What is the progress of the learner at that moment if your complete developer time is only 2 minutes but they already spent two minutes on one slide????

Both blog posts talk about time display for a complete project, never for one slide. Even the expression:

cpInfoFrameCounts/cpInfoFPS gives you the complete project time in seconds.

RodWard

Community Expert

It appears at the bottom of the Table of Contents, not on the playbar. Do you have the Table of Contents on?

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sandy.pflugAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you for the response. I really don't want a TOC on my project. It's a 2 minute training about one topic, so a TOC is irrelevant. There's no way to display this like Youtube or all other video players? That's really what I need.

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