Is there a way to create a menu in Captivate 9 that operates across all the slides

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September 12, 2017
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I'm currently creating a tool to simulate a piece of software. I can't record the software because I only have the software users guide to build this from. I'd like to have a menu across the top that simulates the software's menu, without having to copy and paste it to each slide. Is there a tutorial or some advice someone could share. How I'd like this to work is that the menu appears across the top of the screen and no matter what the slides content is when an item in the menu bar is clicked the appropriate menu and sub menus open.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Susan

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Mejor respuesta de Lilybiri

Did you perhaps forget to activate the option 'Place object on Top' in the Timing Properties panel?

MikeC_CBP

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I used this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm3qOekdsZ4 by Paul Wilson to create a Table of Contents menu to jump to any section of the project and I finally got everything to work with one exception that is actually quite problematic and am praying someone here may have an answer. The slides with embedded video always appear on top of the TOC drop down menu. I have the video object sent to the back and the drop down menu set to always on top and brought to the front but the embedded video is still on top and the menu appears behind it. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!

Paul Wilson CTDP

Community Expert

Try this...

Exit Adobe Captivate
Navigate to the folder where Captivate is installed and copy the AdobeCaptivate.ini to your desktop
Open the file with your favourite text editor
Change the value of UseWidget7 from 0 to 1
Save the file and copy the ini file back to the original folder
Open Captivate and republish your project and test it out to make sure videos will appear on lower layers.

Paul Wilson, CTDP

MikeC_CBP

Participant

Thank you, Paul! I followed said instructions and it resolved that issue while causing another. I lost interactivity within the web objects. I am now attempting to add a script to the index.html file as recommended in this thread Make WebObjects Interactive when using UseWidget7. Once my admins make the change, I will see how it goes. Thanks again for the resolution!

Paul Wilson CTDP

Community Expert

Maybe you can use this for some inspiration. https://youtu.be/pm3qOekdsZ4

Paul Wilson, CTDP

RodWard

Community Expert

I have done something like this in the past but there's not really any easy way to do it if your software triggers the menus to open on mouseover. This is because Captivate doesn't have many objects that will trigger advanced actions on mouse over. Menus that have secondary flyout menus just make it even harder.

It's a lot easier to make things work if the first level menus are opened by clicking them. This gives you On Click events to work with. Captivate interactivity is always event-driven.

Gray SusanAutor

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I plan on the student having to click on the menu option on the menu bar then to click on any items in the menu for the new window to open. I also plan for them to click on any sub menus. No mouse overs. I am using smart shapes with text as the menus. I've tried putting their timing for rest of project but you can't see the dropdown menus after the first slide.Susan Wright (Equilady) Remember, the mighty oak was just a nut that held its ground.

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Did you perhaps forget to activate the option 'Place object on Top' in the Timing Properties panel?

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