Using Conditional Actions for Forced Navigation

[jfoolkoaree]

Hi,

I want to use conditional actions to carry out the following: Display 'proceed' button on slides only once certain slide have been viewed by the user.

I have tried many variation with no avail and conducted many many searches online.

I am hoping that one of you will have the answer for me

Regards,

Jacqueline

[Lilybiri]

Do you mean that you want a Next button to appear only after everything has entered on the slides and/or the audio clip has played? Why not just use the Timeline to achieve that? This means not using a default playbar Next button.

If you want to allow 'second views', without that forced navigation, have a look at this blog post:

Force first view - Captivate 8 - Captivate blog

[jfoolkoaree]

Hi Lilybiri,

Thanks for your response.  It is not that straightforward.

To give a little additional context, the module is composed of a number of sections which the user has control of navigation (which topics they view first and in what order). As an example, one section has 3 separate content slide whcih users access via click boxes.  The user must view all 3 slides, but can choose whcih order they view them in.  What I am attempting to achieve is to have a proceed button appear on each of the 3 slides once all 3 slides have been viewed by the user. The proceed button wil bring the user to the next section using a jump to slide action.

Regards,

Jacqueline

[RodWard · Accepted solution]

Perhaps this is similar to what you are trying to achieve:

Create a Dynamic Menu Slide in Adobe Captivate | Infosemantics Pty Ltd

[Lilybiri]

You can read Rod's approach, but I suspect it is not totally this what you want neither since you want to have the 'Proceed' button appear on different slides of the section once all slides of that section has been viewed. Can you first read Rod's article, before I spend more time trying to help you?

[jfoolkoaree]

I will review Rob's approach now and come back to you.

Thanks

[RodWard]

If you watch the tutorial video and understand how the User Variable is used to control the Conditional Action triggered ON SLIDE ENTER of the menu slide, then you should be able to apply that same technique to have buttons appear on any other slide.  You just need to create similar actions that are controlled by the same variables.

[jfoolkoaree]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your support with this.

I have reviewed your tutorial and applied a similar approach: creating conditional actions with an assign and show decision for each slide. This has done the trick!

Thanks again

[jfoolkoaree]

I have managed to it out using Rob's approach as reference.

Thanks for you help!