Publish Captivate 9 to IE

Report · Apr 16, 2017

Hello, I want to publish my project to IE. I don't have an LMS. I just want an end user to be able to pull up my project on the web and use it.

I have a Google account, but most end users will have IE. When I try to copy and past my file path to IE it comes back to my directory and does not open in IE.

Please tell me how I can get my project so that it displays the way an end user would expect to see it.

Thank you.

Report · Apr 17, 2017

How are you planning on hosting it so people with IE can see it? You need to publish the file to HTML 5, if you do this locally you can go into the directory and find the index.html file that captivate generates and open that with the browser of your choosing.

Sounds to me though that you would like to share it via the web. Your options would be to host it on a server as a web page, or send the entire file to your users to open locally. I think you can stlll publish as an .exe for users as well, but I am not well versed with that option.

Hope that helps, I use captivate pretty much exclusively from a web host versus an LMS. It is a little quirky but for the most part works well.

Report · Apr 17, 2017

Hi. Thanks. I tried posting to HTML but I got an error message that said some of my elements were not supported in HTML, so I went with SWF only.

Report · Apr 18, 2017

Not a good idea at all, future of SWF is not very bright! Rollovers are not supported and mentioned in the HMTL5 tracker, but if using a desktop/laptop they will mostly be functional even though they are mentioned not to be. IE is end of life as well, replaced by Edge.

Report · Apr 17, 2017

You could publish the project to a webserver, and offer the link. However, know that some LMS's are free (Moodle) and could be a better option.

I would not use the EXE or interactive PDF solution, because both are Flash-based.

Report · Apr 18, 2017

Have you looked what the unsupported HTML was? If you got to project>HTML5 tracker. It will give you a list of unsupported stuff. It may just be a text animation, or something insignificant to performance.