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Should be the easiest thing to do, right?....
I have an ordinary button labeled "Start" In the button's properties:
Action>On Success: Open URL or file
http://www.dgs.ca.gov/orim/Programs/DDTOnlineTraining.aspx
Attempts: Infinite
It won't do anything when clicked. No error, no nothing. The URL is good and works in my browser. I've tried the "Current, New and Parent" settings also, but no difference.
The published files are located on our LAN. Could that be an issue?
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thanks, I looked all thru that and it doesn't seem to have the answer I need. Anyone else?
And how the heck did Adobe get all the way to version 5.5 without fixing such a basic thing??
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Ummm, I pointed you to the exact section you likely need. The section that discusses Flash Global Security settings. The Flash Player often blocks links of this type until you configure your PC to explicitly allow them.
Cheers... Rick
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Thanks, I read that, but I don't see how modifying player settings on my pc will solve the problem for any of my users. The link doesn't work for me or for others who have tried it on different computers. What am I missing?
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Okay, first things first.
You are saying that you have adjusted the Global Security Settings for your PC, tested and it *STILL* fails? I'd have to say I've not seen that but it's possible.
Assuming you adjust the settings and it then begins working, the next task is how to address for your users. Certainly asking each of them to adjust their own Flash Player settings isn't optimal.
I'm not supposing that it's possible to host the content on a web server? (Internal or Intranet) If not, I'm given to understand that if you simply point the users to an HTML page that subsequently links to the HTML page hosting your Captivate content, that things may work. I don't have access to internal servers so am unable to test that.
Cheers... Rick
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yes this is correct:
"You are saying that you have adjusted the Global Security Settings for your PC, tested and it *STILL* fails? I'd have to say I've not seen that but it's possible."
I don't have any other place to host it. Our LAN was a last resort.
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Try enabling the Full Screen option and see if that makes a difference. When you use this option you get two HTML pages. One opens and has a link to open the other. If what Rod Ward suggests is true and I've understood his suggestions properly, I would expect this to allow the link to work because you opened the Captivate from an HTML page.
Cheers... Rick
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Can you show us a screenshot of your Flash Global Security settings where you say you've set your LAN as a trusted location?
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Just found something interesting.
We have a link from our intranet to the CP page I made on our LAN. The troublesome button link is on the CP page.
When I launch the CP page from our intranet, the path is this:
\\accounts\dars\ORPPA\Training and Program Development\Online Training\homepage.htm
If I open that exact same file in the same location, but go directly to the LAN instead of thru the intranet the path is this:
S:\ORPPA\Training and Program Development\Online Training\homepage.htm
It's a network location that is mapped on my pc.
My button link does not work when using the first method, but it DOES work when using the second method. Makes no sense to me because once you're at the CP page, you are viewing the same file in the same location, only the route that you took to get there is different.
Ideas?
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When you set up your Flash Global Security setting, did you enter the path to the publish folder in a particular format?
Can you show us a screenshot of your Flash security dialog?
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THe root of the C drive is also included at the top of this list. did i get it right?
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Enabling full screen mode seems to have fixed it! I still need to have other users test it tho to be sure.
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Well I've had some other users test it and it still does NOT work! Only works on my pc.
THe other users are getting the "Adobe Flash player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation" message. Clicking "OK" did not let the link work.
I can't have all my users change their security settings. THere is NO way they can handle that and management would get upset. My boss is pressuring me to make this link work. And we will have other similar links to add soon.
I have no idea what to do now. any help?
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In the screenshot that you included a couple of posts ago, which of the links shown was the one that was NOT working?
If it was the third one listed (...homepage.htm) this was on a LAN server. In this case all users WOULD need to add this to their Flash Global Security settings in order to work, which I agree is NOT going to happen.
If it was the last link shown (...DDTOnlineTraining.aspx), this is obviously a web server and end users would NOT need to make any changes to Flash Global Security to have the link work. If the link is NOT currently working then something else other than Flash security is likely preventing it.
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yes it is the last link shown. The users get the flash security warning.
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OK. Then something else IS definitely going on. My guess would be that the DDTOnlineTraining.aspx file is actually calling the content from a LAN server and not another page on the web server. That's the only reason I can think of that your end users would be seeing a Flash Security warning. I've NEVER seen this type of warning for Captivate content that WAS being served up from an actual web server.
Try to get someone from your IT department to investigate this ASPX file and see if it is pointing to content on a LAN.
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I had the same problem in the current version of Adobe Captivate and was able to fix it by making the link open in a new tab, as opposed to the current tab. The LMS likely does not want to open the link in the same tab as the course, so I think this is part of the issue.
When you add the link in the action (this is assuming you are using a button—I have not tried this with a regular hyperlink), click on the little dropbox next to the link. Click "new." Then unclick "Continue Playing the Project."
This worked for me. Let me know how it turns out for you.