Newbie - Showing Check Marks on Visited Slides

Report · Apr 06, 2017

I have a slide that has 5 different tabs of content and shows the check marks a tab selected.

Because of the timing in the audio and the effects I have to put on some of the content, I wanted to put the tab content on separate slides instead of ONE slide but have the same functionality of the check mark showing if they've already visited that slide. I tried looking on you tube and the forums and I know it has to do with variables and conditions, but I can't figure it out. PLEASE HELP.

Report · Apr 06, 2017

Which version do you use? This is important, because with CP9 you can use states, which is not the case for previous versions. Are those icons that you show on each slide or timed for the rest of the project, always on top?

On the timeline I don't see slide audio, why did you make that slide so long? Aren't those icons buttons to jump to other slides? Lot of questions indeed, but your set up is not making it easy at all. If you have copies of the icons on each slide, that means that they all have another ID, which makes the advanced actions to be used much more complicated.

The idea is to define a user variable for each 'chapter', which has an original value of 0, will be toggled to 1 when the slide has been visited (can be done with the back button on that slide). Then you'll need a conditional action On Enter checking the values of the variables, and showing the check marks if the variable is equal to 1. That is pretty easy if you have one set of icons, with states or with an extra checkmark image, but what I'm seeing in your filmstrip is many slides with those icons.....

Report · Apr 06, 2017

Hi Lilybiri,

Thank you for your response. I'm using Adobe Captivate 8. The icons are timed for the rest of the slide.

I haven't included the audio files yet, but there is a video for "tab1content" that is about 7 minutes long and that's why I wanted to separate them into their own slides instead of having groups within one slide. Would it be better to have the icons on the main slide and just use an x or close button? I just wanted the icons to appear on each slide and have the check mark visible, but you're right about it having different IDs for all of them. What would be your suggestion? Thanks!

Report · Apr 06, 2017

I asked if they can be set 'for the rest of the project', not 'rest of the slide'. If you have them on all those slides, you have to create that conditional action multiple times because the ID is different on each slide. Since you seem not (yet) very well versed in variable and advanced actions, I would certainly try to avoid that. Alternative: have them only on the 'dashboard' slide, because then you only need to check On Enter for that slide, or you can even show the checkmark with the action on the Back button of the different slides. That would make the use of variable superfluous. The advanced or (better) shared action would be reduced to:

Show CheckmarkX where this is the specific checkmark or image that has to be made visible

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If you want those checkmarks on all those slides it would be:

Show CheckmarkX_1 on the first of the slides with those icons

Show CheckmarkX_2 on the second of the slides with those icons

...... repeat this for all those slides

Jump to Dashboard

You don't have states in CP8, you'll have to do it with a separate checkmark, image or text, that is initially invisible.