Captivate 7 - Hide / disable 'next' button until queston is answered

[ali_bongo_]

We're trying to make it compulsory to answer a question before advancing to the next slide.

Ideally we want to hide / remove the next navigation button until the question is answered.

Any help would be appreciated

P.S. I did check the Adobe forums and it suggested putting the next button under the clear button - which works....but not if you navigate back to the slide - you cannot then go forwards

Many thanks

Al

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

You found my suggestion to put the Next button, that is meant as a Skip button during Quiz, under the Clear button, which has also the advantage that there cannot be a confusion between the Submit and the Next button Indeed, it was certainly also mentioned that it is supposed you don't allow Backwards movement and hide the playbar in that case.

http://blog.lilybiri.com/question-question-slides-in-captivate

The buttons on question slides cannot be controlled like other buttons. They are embedded in the question slide. If you want total control, you have to create custom question slides (lot of work).

Another approach with the default question slides is to check the Required option 'Answer All' in the Quiz Preferences, Settings. Or you can use Submit All, which allows backward movement and will pop up a warning if not all questions are answered, but will alow to submit even in that case.

And you could try, if you feel comfortable with advanced actions, to create a conditional action On enter for each slide, that shows a shape button that will be Next button in case of backwards movement..

Lilybiri

[ali_bongo_]

Thanks - i will give those a go

[Vision Sound Creative]

I do not see a way on slide or on master to put clear on top of skip/next to hide next until user answers knowledge check. I do not see clear or skip on master either.

[philcarlson]

You need to use an advanced action to put in a clear button on top of the next button. There needs to be a variable that counts whether you've been on the slide and then hides the clear button.

Moderator comment: this is not true at all. You don't need a variable, you cannot change the stack order using any action. If the normal stack order is not changed, the Clear button is on top, you just have to move the Next button. If you changed the stack order, you need to use the Arrange option in the right-click menu

[Lilybiri]

@philcarlson Not true at all, there is no way to change the stack order with an advanced action, how do you do that? I added a comment on your answer.

The normal stacking order of the buttons on the quiz master slide is Clear on top, Submit at the bottom, and Next is in between. If you did delete some of those buttons, maybe you'll have to use the Arrange right-click menu to change the order.

[philcarlson]

@Lilybiri Good point. I've done this by not showing the Next button, but putting a continue button that shows when they go through again.

[Lilybiri]

Why make it so complicated? At least you should mention that this means using a shape button, and not a normal button (which is still the rule on Question slides) and that you need a conditional advanced/shared action On Enter for the question slide.  That action is NOT changing the stack order at all, as you seem to say in your first answer. Moreover you don't need a 'variable', you need to use the cpInReviewMode to check if the question slide is in Review status.

[philcarlson]

My understanding is that the cpInReviewMode is used when you get to the quiz results slide. If you don't use the quiz results slide, then it wouldn't work. Is that correct?

[Lilybiri]

Even if you don't SHOW the Quiz results slide, that doesn't mean that it is not functioning. But the functionality to have the Review indicators added to the question slides is in the Review button of the quiz results slide. Why not use it? You can customize that score slide as much as you want, even take out all the fields and just keep the Review button.

[philcarlson]

My concern is that the users can go back by following the TOC. Then, go forward to my survey slides and redo them. This is where the Next button comes into play.

I have a menu selection that allows them to go through the material in the way they want. Each of the sub sections has a survey question. If I force them to answer all the questions, then it won't "jump" over the survey questions in the menu.

If I don't require them to answer all the questions, then the next button shows and they can skip a question. If they have answered the question, the Submit button on the survey slide is missing and they get stuck.

So, I put in a variable that shows that they have completed a section and then a button on the survey slide that Continues. It only shows when they have completed the survey already. There is no stacking.

I'm not sure if this is the best way to do this. I'm open to suggestions.

[Lilybiri]

It is possible to lock navigation by TOC as well...which you can do On Enter for the Quiz.

[Jabir]

Hi Ali,

As Lieve suggested Answer All should work.The option will be grayed out until you hit Submit.You can as well navigate back and forth with next button enabled after you have answered the question.

[delasoup]

I was under the impression that if I put the Clear button on top of the Skip button, that the first time through the Clear button would be present, and upon returning to that slide, the Clear button would be gone, and the Skip button would be shown. This is not what I am experiencing. Upon revisit, the slide resets and the Clear button is there each time. I am using Knowledge Check slides. Am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to function?

Thanks,

J

[Lilybiri]

Are you on CP7 or 9? KC slides are new in CP9, they do not have Review mode

but are reset immediately after leaving the slide.

The tweak to hide Next button under Clear button was valid for previous

versions, because Next doubled as Skip during Preview. In CP9 this is no

longer the case: Review can have dedicated Next/Back buttons.

[delasoup]

Hi Lilybiri, thanks for the clarification. I am on CP9. That's unfortunate that the KC slides are reset after they are left. The client wants users' answers to persist while jumping around through the course. We are not using the Review feature. Is it possible to achieve what I am trying to do with regular quiz slides? We have a final quiz at the end that reports to an LMS, and wouldn't want the practice quizzes to be tallied along with those.

The main objective is to have Back, Next and Submit buttons on all quiz slides, with Next being hidden or disabled the first time through. Then when the slide is revisited it would allow the Next button for forward navigation.

Is this possible?

[Lilybiri]

You will have to use a custom shape button in that case. The Skip button in CP9 (there is no Next button by default during Quiz) is an embedded object, which means you cannot control it at all. You'll need an On Enter action to make that custom Next button visible when getting to a quiz slide, not coming from the previous slide. That could be achieved using the system variables cpInfoLastVisitedSlide and cpInfoCurrentSlide. Beware! They do not have the same numbering flow: cpInfoCurrentSlide starts with index=0, whereas cpInfoLastVisitedSlide starts with index=0.