Need some guidance - showing an image on slide revisit

Report · Nov 27, 2024

Hello everyone,

I'm using Captivate 2019 and am struggling to create an advanced action that does what I need. I hope that someone here who has more experience with advanced actions can help. Here is what I am trying to do:

-establish a slide that will be like a "home" page, in the sense that the learner will return to it a few times throughout the training

-on the home page, start by showing one image, which I will use as button

-when the learner clicks the button, they are taken to a software simulation

-at the end of the software simulation, they click a return button that jumps them back to the home page

-when they return to the home page, the first button should show but now a second button should also show

-the second button takes the learner through a second simulation; again, they return to the home page and a third button now displays

My buttons are not displaying when I return to the home page after a simulation. Can anyone help me understand how the script should be structured?

Thanks,

Jennifer

Report · Nov 28, 2024

You need to have a custom user variable for each of the destinations your user will jump to from the home page. Call the variable something that clearly indicates what it is tracking. (E.g. Sim_01, Sim_02, etc). Set the Default value of each variable to 0.

When the user clicks your home page button and jumps to the destination page, set the ON Slide Enter action to Assign the relevant tracking variable to 1, this indicates the user has visited that destination.

One the home page, you need to have a Conditional Advanced Action that gets executed by the On Slide Enter event of the Home page. It should have several Decision Blocks in this Advanced Action, each of which checks the value of the tracking variables and if they are set to 1 they will SHOW the relevant image button, ELSE the action HIDEs the same image button. So if the user has just visited Simulation 1 and the Sim_01 variable is now set to 1, then your Conditional Action should SHOW the second image button, etc.