Multiple Text Entry Boxes

[BetsyNovice]

Can I get some help with text entry boxes?  I have a slide where I want the student to enter some of the multiples of two numbers.  On my slide I have put five text entry boxes.  I am asked what values are correct for the boxes and I have put 8,12,24,12,18, respectively.  I don't know how to proceed after that.  Do I put a single "Enter" button so the answers get checked?  If any of the answers are wrong, will it tell the student which ones are wrong?

Should I use user-created variables for the answers - like v_8, v_12, v_24, v_8, v_18? 

Does using user-created variables allow me to activate Advanced Actions, depending on whether the answers are right or wrong, and take them to the next slide in the series if they are correct, or have them redo this slide or review multiples if they are incorrect?

I just want to understand how this goes together.  Thanks.

[Lilybiri]

All can be done with advanced actions. A variable cannot trigger an advanced action, only these events: Events and (advanced) Actions - Captivate blog

You'll need a Submit button that can trigger the action that will check the entries, that are stored in the variables associated with the TEB's.

Don't remember if I told you already, but you cannot delete the entry that is displayed in a TEB by changing the value of the variable (with an action), unless you use the widget by Jim Leichliter.

[BetsyNovice]

I can put a button on the page with the text entry boxes, but how do I get that button to trigger the checking of the answers in the text entry boxes?  I see where it says "On success go to the next slide", does that mean that it is checking the entered answers?

I am confused by what you are saying about deleting the entry displayed in a TEB.  Are you saying that I, as the creator, cannot change the answer for a TEB that I have already entered, without using a widget?

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Indeed, the value that was entered in the TEB will remain displayed, even if you clear the value of the associated variable. You need a widget for that.

It is not possible to explain the whole work flow in a user forum, sorry.

Aggregating results TEB's in Captivate - Captivate blog

One Submit button for Multiple Text Entry Boxes? - Captivate blog

Maybe those posts can help a little bit.

Lilybiri

[BetsyNovice]

Thank you.

I'm still not clear on the widget thing.  Can you help me understand the "associated variable"?  If the correct answer for a given text entry box is 8, where is the variable?  Are you calling the 8 the variable?  So, if I enter 8 as the correct answer, and then realize that the correct answer is 10, I cannot change the 8 to a 10 in the box that opens that asks me for the correct answer?

[Lilybiri]

User will be able to change value, but you cannot clear the TEB for him

like a Reset.

[BetsyNovice]

I was reading one of the links that you put up.  It was the one with four text entry boxes.  I notice that in that case, the user is not told how many answers were wrong, or which ones were wrong.  Is that something that you are unable to do with multiple text entry boxes and one submit button?

If I want the user to be told which answers were wrong, do I need to go with submit buttons for each text entry box?

[BetsyNovice]

It looks like you are showing correct answers in the other link.  I will keep reading and try and understand it.

[Lilybiri]

That is all possible, but do not have an identical use case for each

question on this forum, where I spend a.lot of free' time. Close to

midnight here, tired,

[RodWard]

Lilybiri is correct.  All of what you are describing is possible to achieve with Captivate, but it requires some experience in using the application, especially working with variables, events, and conditional advanced actions.  Your questions indicate perhaps you are quite new to all of this.

If you consider it worth spending some money to educate yourself on this more advanced area of Captivate, you might consider this e-book:

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-advanced-actions

It has chapters that explain all the basics and then tutorial examples that illustrate how to do more or less exactly what you are describing with TEBs being validated via conditional advanced actions.  There are also bonus CPTX files for different versions of Captivate so that you can see exactly how the results shown in the book were achieved.

[BetsyNovice]

Thank you.  I will get the book.  I did get another e-book, but got lost in doing the exercises with their files.  This one appears to explain things well and has the user creating the files.

Yesterday, I spent quite a bit of time trying to put together a branching layout that I think all of the presentations will have.  In doing so, I used some images, like shown above, to appear on the slides.  I noticed that the resolution of the images in yesterday's slides was very poor.  Yet, the day before, when I used the same images, the resolutions was great.  I don't know what I did differently in creating the slides.  I have the images saved as .png in a file on my desktop.

Can you tell me what I did that might have caused this difference in the clarity of the picture on the slide?

[BetsyNovice]

Well, I tried twice to order the e-book.  My information kept getting erased and it wouldn't go.  Is the e-book available anywhere other than that website?

[RodWard]

Nope. Only on that website.  Try using a different web browser to perform the transaction.  Also, if you were trying to make the purchase from a corporate network, there might be some interference there.  Try making the purchase from your home internet account.

[BetsyNovice]

One additional question on the variable.  Is it the student or the creator that cannot change the answer without the widget?