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Skin Editor Options Greyed Out

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August 3, 2012
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I am trying to update the skin for my Captivate 6 project, but all of the options are greyed out no matter which skin template I select. This appears to be an issue with just this one project, but I have no idea why they have become greyed out. Likewise, In the Table of Contents tab of the skin editor, I am unable to enable navigation and deselect the option that prohibits users from moving to a slide they haven't yet viewed. So, when I publish the project, there is no navigation bar nor is the table of contents active for navigation - even for slides that have been viewed.

I need to get this project done today and just realized this was happening late yesterday. Please HELP!!!

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rebeccal42625238

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I did both. I don't have any pretests OR don't have branch aware checked. I still have it greyed out. Is there any other advice. I really don't want to copy everything to a new project for a simple skin editor thing. I have version 2019.

Lilybiri

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Not a good idea to paste this to such an old thread because so much has changed.

Are you perhaps busy with a Fluid Boxes project (responsive)?

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Nutley

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I just spent the last four hours googling the issue of why my TOC was unable to forward to other parts of the course.

Turns out it was because I had three pesky PreTest Questions in the module. Not sure what the point of having a Pretest questions option is now. I just recreated them as three more Test questions with no reporting and zero points instead now everything works as it should.

But thankyou for solving my issue anyway

Lilybiri

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Pretest and Branch aware disables navigation.

RodWard

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If you can manage to upgrade to Captivate 9 you may find that the new Knowledge Check slides are more like what you wanted.

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Anonymous

I had checked the Branch Aware box so that users could go back to review material before answering question (otherwise the question Submit button doesn't work after going back). But that knocked out being able to edit the skin (i.e. add closed caption choice). Unchecking the Branch Aware box didn't help. I had to copy all the slides to a new project. (Clearing preferences didn't work).

RodWard

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Branch Aware is not used to allow users to "go back to review material before answering a question". It's used to allow learners to take one of two or more branches through a quiz but then only be scored according to the quiz slides actually visited.

The 'feature' I believe you are thinking of is Remediation. This is where you configure the On Last Attempt action of a quiz slide to jump back to a given content slide. On that slide you set a button with Return to Quiz action so that clicking this button will return the learner to the quiz question they failed.

Either way, I agree that making it mandatory for the skin to be disabled when using any similar feature is just asking for unhappy users.

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Anonymous

Remediation isn't exactly what I'm looking for. I'm looking for the user to choose from slides to go to. I don't want the user to get a wrong answer and be sent to one slide. There are still 3 more answers I'd like the user to look into. Also, when a question has multiple answers, being directed to one slide isn't a help.

Yes, Free the Submit Button!

AnitaHorsley

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Please make sure that in Preferences/Quiz/Settings the Branch Aware is NOT checked.

IndoorsDave

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The "Branch Aware" button is also greyed out. I think I've narrowed the problem down to my questions in my file. As to whats wrong with them, who the hell knows.

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Waterlily1000Author

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Just wanted to let you know this is the response I got back from Adobe so if you have done any of the below two things then the Skin Edito will be grayed out:

Skin Editor Not showing:

We (adobe) disable skin editor in the following scenarios:

a) Project has Pre-test question OR

b) Branch aware in selected in quiz preferences.

Do you have any of them in your project?

The help link related to play bar is hidden for pre-test question is at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/captivate/cp/using/WS6029a80579ffffcd5a87e66f135bd55f8cc-7ffc.html

Thanks for following up. We did figure that out, but it then makes those features worthless if you want to have control over the skin of the project. I don't know what Adobe is thinking by disabling that functionality. Nor do I understand the limited control the program gives you over how quizzes run in general.

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