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

Lilybiri, my last response was answering Chris' question and I did read your blog. And I do understand that interactive tutorials take longer than the slide length when they are not linear and do not contain voiceover. This tutorial is linear and has voiceover, so it should be straight forward: it's the length of the complete project. How would I use the variables you suggest? I tried $$cpInfoFrameCount$$/$$cpInfoFPS$$ but just displays 1371/30 in my published project. Thank you.

Whether they take longer is not due to not being linear, but to interactivities. If you only create non-interactive tutorials, you have exact the same (lack of) efficiency for learning as a passive video. No need for an eLearning tool in that case. Use output to Video and put it on YouTube or another platform.

I wrote that you have to calculate with the Expression command, and that is also full explained in the blogs I offered. Maybe you never wrote an advanced action? You just displayed the variables, you didn't calculate the division result.

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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