Reset slide when returning to it

[juanita-y]

Hi

I have a Captivate 8 file with a slide that has an image and audio. As well as that there are two buttons - each button stops the main slide audio to play a separate audio. (it's a safety course, so the main audio explains the alarms, while the buttons play samples of both alarm types). It used an advanced action to show the grouped items on screen, one of which is the separate audio file.

This is all working fine until I return to the slide by clicking the Next and then the Back button.

When this happens, I am hearing the main slide audio, but I can also hear the audio from whichever of the buttons I clicked just before leaving the screen.

How do I 'reset' the screen so that upon return, the buttons/actions performed on that stage return to its original state?

Thanks

Juanita

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

You'll have to use the On Enter event of the slide to trigger another advanced/shared action that will reset everything in its original state. Mostly that means hiding the objects that have been shown by an action, disabling/enabling interactive objects that have been enabled/disabled, stopping audio objects (if you used those to play the separate audio clip) or using the command Stop triggered audio if you started the clip with 'Play audio'. You didn't specify how you played the audio clips.

Audio Objects: Control them! - Captivate blog

[juanita-y]

Thanks Lilybiri.

I added the advanced action On Enter and it did the trick. I changed the way my audio clips were playing (ie used an advanced action to play the clips instead of playing them from the timeline).

Thanks for your help.

[juanita-y]

Hi again Lilybiri,

I have found that on screens where there is a little more interactivity than a typical screen which just plays through audio, it seems to be better to play this audio using an advanced action rather than play it through the timeline. Is this your recommendation for audio generally?

Thanks

[Lilybiri]

If you want more control, slide audio is not the best choice. Of course, if

you need CC you need slide audio for the default work flow.

[Lilybiri]

I am glad you could solve it.

[hcmjames]

I've encountered a similar problem, but the solution above didn't work because I don't have any images or audio on the slide.

I have 3 smart shape buttons that appear when the next button is clicked. When these buttons are activated an Advanced Action (AA) reveals text boxes.

When I return to the slide for a second time the text boxes and button are still showing.

If I add an AA on Enter to hide the button & boxes they don't show at all.

I'm using Captivate 6 and any help would be really appreciated.

[Lilybiri]

Very confusing question, why do you post this in an old thread. The principle is always the same: to reset a slide you use the On Enter action to hide, disable, show objects like they appeared the first time. If clicking on the Next button on that slide is executing an action, that is not changed by the On Enter slide action, will be the same.

Since I don't have CP6 anymore bit difficult to offer more specific help.

[hcmjames]

Thank you for your reply. I posted to this thread because it seemed to be the most relevant. I'll rephrase the question and post it a new thread.