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MaileMan
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August 18, 2009
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How to restart current slide in captivate?

  • August 18, 2009
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Hi All,

I have a slide in captivate 4 that contains several boxes that display in the same location as the last when an 'ok' button is clicked (I use the timeline to fade in/out relevant captions). The client has asked that when you get to the final one, that a restart button shows that will reload the current slide, so you could read it again, should you have the (bizarre!) urge to.

Im sure the answer is glaring in the face but can find a relevant action for the button. Could somebody help please!!

Thanks in advance

Chris Maile

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    Hi Chris,

    Try this out to solve your issue:

    say slide1 is the slide where-in you want a button that takes to the start of slide1.

    1. Have a dummy slide(say slide D) just before slide 1.

    2. Have a button on slide 1 which would have "jum to slide" action and would take the user to slide D.

    3. Have " jump to slide" action on the OnSlideEnter os slide D and jump to slide 1.

    Do let me know if this helped you resolve the issue.

    Manish

    http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate

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    Anonymous
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    August 18, 2009

    Hi Chris,

    Try this out to solve your issue:

    say slide1 is the slide where-in you want a button that takes to the start of slide1.

    1. Have a dummy slide(say slide D) just before slide 1.

    2. Have a button on slide 1 which would have "jum to slide" action and would take the user to slide D.

    3. Have " jump to slide" action on the OnSlideEnter os slide D and jump to slide 1.

    Do let me know if this helped you resolve the issue.

    Manish

    http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate

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    MaileManAuthor
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    August 18, 2009

    Hi Manish,

    Thanks very much, that worked a treat! I had to just have a very short (0.1 of a second) dummy slide that had nothing it. Then just setup the navigation either side to use 'jump to slide' instead of 'go to next slide/previous' slide method.

    I can assure you that there cant be many people in the world who would want to read this stuff twice, but for the strange people that do, they now can!

    Thanks again

    Chris Maile

    leonardo_portillo_contractor
    leonardo_portillo_contractor
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    December 18, 2019

    Please, don't get me wrong... I don't mean to be hypercritical but, it just seems absurd to me that we need to use this kind of workarounds with Captivate, which is not cheap BTW. Would it be that hard to make it possible to reload a slide with its actions? I just can't even conceive yet that the Javascript windows don't have scroll bars, let alone syntax highlighting or code completion, which is not that hard to achieve either. I hope my comment will not be taken as pure criticism but as one more cry for improvement. I'm in need to use it because the company I'm working for already paid for it. Best regards!


    P.D. I know this is a very old post by the way. But it's still valid, as much as my comment, 10 years after this question was asked.

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