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Captivate cannot do (with default functionality) what you are hoping to achieve in this case because you want the student to be able to type in any combination of letters that obeys the required password rules and be marked correct.
Captivate's validation options on normal quiz questions with fields (e.g. the Short Answer Question) are limited to matching the learner's answer to specific correct answers that you have to supply beforehand.
To achieve what you're looking for you would need to
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I found this to be an interesting question - so I decided to explore it a bit.
Here is what I managed to come up with.
As Rod stated - we will need a text entry box for the participant to enter some characters.
This TEB is set to a variable - in my case - called myPass
I have some JavaScript placed onEnter to the slide to help prep things for the validation.
// declares a variable called checkPass to later use as an array
var checkPass
// This array stores the various values we will accept as a special character
var specials = ["<",">","@","!","#","$","%","^","&","*","(",")","_","+","[","]","{","}","?"];
// This function checks to see if the password meets our criteria and resets the flags
function verify() {
if (num + spec + upper + lower == 4) {
console.log("Valid Password");
}
else {
console.log("Invalid Password");
}
num=0;
spec=0;
upper=0;
lower=0;
}
// This function checks each type in order of number, special, upper, and lower case
function checkCase(item) {
if (!isNaN(item * 1)) {
console.log(item + " is numeric");
num = 1;
}
else if (specials.includes(item)==true) {
console.log(item + " is special");
spec = 1;
}
else if (item == item.toUpperCase()) {
console.log(item + " is upperCase");
upper = 1;
}
else if (item == item.toLowerCase()) {
console.log(item + " is lowerCase");
lower = 1;
}
}
Then we have some JavaScript on the button to check to run things.
// This splits what the leaerner entered into individual characters for examination
// Values are placed into the checkPass array
checkPass = myPass.split("");
// For every item in the checkPass array - run the checkCase function
checkPass.forEach(checkCase);
// in a half second - check if the password meets criteria
// This allows time for the function checks on the password to complete.
setTimeout(verify, 500);
I chose to log to the console to verify all was working as you can see below but you could have whatever else happen instead.
If I change one to be capital (the W) - it returns valid.
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