search for text in a published file

[Hector1]

Is there any way to perform a text sesrch in a published file?

[StevePixel · Accepted solution]

Hi Hector,

There is, as long as you are using the Table of Contents. If you enable that, preview, click the magnifying glass, enter a word or phrase, it will search the entire project for that word and display only those TOC items that contain the word.

Obviously this isn't ideal, for example if you have pages not in the TOC, it won't show them and you have to go into the page to actually find the word or phrase, but if you don't require a robust search function it works pretty well.

Cheers

Steve

Moderator: read the whole thread, because this is only functional for HTML output, not for SWF output.

[RodWard]

Steve,  are you sure the search function in the Skin is actually searching through the entire project?  My understanding is that it only searches the wording of the TOC items, not the wording on slides that are reached by TOC items.

[Hector1]

Thanks everybody for the responses As usual Rod you are the Captivate Guru.

Thank you

Ali

[StevePixel]

HI Rod,

That is what I thought at first too, but then I checked on a project I was working on and it found search terms in documents that weren't in the TOC but in the item connected to the TOC. For example it highlighted pages that contained the word Risk, but were called Summary in the TOC. It would only highlight terms that were originally in the TOC, it wouldn't highlight pages that weren't in the TOC,  but if those connected terms had the search word in the page it showed up..at least on my test,

Cheers

Steve  

[RodWard]

Were these modules published as HTM/SWF or as HTML5 or as HTML5 Responsive?  I could understand this being true of HMTL5 Responsive courses (because the on screen text remains as text), but I'd be surprised if it were true of SWF content where the text only exists in images within the published output.

[StevePixel]

Good point Rod, They were HTML5 that I tested in. Never tested in SWF, so you are probably right. 

Cheers, 
Steve