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ericaverza
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January 8, 2019
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Which function should I use to create an interactive selection and print the result?

  • January 8, 2019
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Hi everybody!

I am here again with a question that might change everything that I did until now in my current project. I will try to briefly explain what I am doing and which are my goals.

Project: I have a project that consists of a central mind map with several options in the shape of little square images. When you click in one of these images, you are redirected to a fact sheet page, with information about it. In this page, you can choose whether this option is relevant or not to you, by choosing YES or NO. If you click YES, you are redirected to the mind map and a positive tick will be present on top of the previously selected little square image. If you chose NO, you are redirected to the mind map and a cross will be showing on your little square image. Ideally, you should be able to click on this square again and decide again YES or NO how many times you want (until you are satisfied with your choice). In the end, you should have the initial mind map with either positive ticks or crosses on the square, depending on your decision about each option.

How I did: I did this by creating 3 buttons for each option (one of top of each other): in the bottom, a button with the square image with a cross, on top of it, a button with the square image with a positive tick and on top of all the previous two, a button with the original square image. I added to each button the action to 'jump to slide X', being X the number of the slide with the fact sheet of the specific square. In the fact sheet, I created a button YES and NO.

The button YES has the shared action to:

1) hide the button with the square image with a cross;

2) hide the button with the original square image;

3) show the button with the positive tick;

4) jump to the initial slide of the mind map.

The button NO has the shares action to:

1) hide the button with the square image and the positive thick;

2) hide the button with the original square image;

3) show the button with the cross;

4) jump to the initial slide of the mind map.

What I want: Once the person decided about each option (YES or NO) and has the final mind map with her/his choices made, he/she should be able to generate a PDF with this final screen. I want the person to take home the result of her/his choice in a beautiful mind map. For that, I do not know if I should change my entire way of structuring the project or if there is a trick that I can use to allow this type of action.

If you read until here and understood everything I said, I am already thankful. I am not a good writer and I think that the explanation may be quite confusing.

In any case, I would like to thanks in advance for any help!

Erica.

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RodWard
RodWard
Community Expert
January 8, 2019

You don't seem to be aware of how Object States work in Captivate. 

You don't need to create three buttons for each box.  You just need to create three custom states for each button and set them up as needed.

There is no default option in Captivate to generate a PDF output of a single slide.  The best you could hope for would be to suggest that they print out the final slide.  But that also usually comes with some complications because the default print options are often not suited to the orientation of the slide.

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ericaverzaAuthor
Known Participant
January 9, 2019

Hi! Thank you for your reply! I do not know much about the Object States in Captivate. I would like to explore it but, unfortunately, my Captivate is not working properly anymore. I will open another discussion topic in the forum, so other people who have the same problem can see it also.

Once this problem is fixed, I will explore the Object States in Captivate and, probably, I will return to this discussion with some questions.

Thank you one more time!

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ericaverzaAuthor
Known Participant
January 9, 2019

Spreek maar Nederlands, zou voor mij ook veel makkelijker zijn.

You can change the state of objects which are located on another slide than the event triggering the action only with an advanced or a shared action. In this case you could use the two buttons on the second screenshot to trigger the same shared action, or it may be easier in your situation (newbie) to use advanced actions. Een voorbeeld:

Voor de Ja-knop creëer een advanced action met twee commando's:

     Change State of :Image_1 to Ja

     Jump to slide....    where you indicate the slide with the image_1

Voor de 'Misschien later' knop

      Change State of :Image_1 to Nee

     Jump to slide....    where you indicate the slide with the image_1

Je kan van mij zelfs training in het Nederlands krijgen.


Hi RodWard, thank you for your message. My sincere apologies if I am being inconvenient with so many questions. I understand that you all also have deadlines and I truly appreciate your time and help offered in this forum. I am reading about the concepts you've explained and I think I kind understand it! Thank you so much for suggesting the Object States!

Hi Lieve! After RodWard's message, I sort of figured it out the exact procedure that you described above! It is, as you said, an easier solution to use advanced actions, but for now it fits perfect. Later on, when I have more time, I will figure it out better the concepts and functions of captivate. Thank you so much!

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