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Copy pasting objects renames them

Community Beginner ,
May 12, 2020 May 12, 2020

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Hello, I am working in Captivate 2019 version 11.5.1.499 and have written a Javascript with a For Loop running through 30+ objects by name (Is there any ID system that can be used besides the actual object name? These objects are not TEBs, they are text captions/images.) and it works perfectly fine.

The problem occurs when I try to copy and paste the slide with all of its content into another project (which does not have any objects with the same name as the ones I am pasting into it). The Javascript comes in fine but the objects are all renamed, and for the code to work, since it is based off of the object names, I will have to rename every single object. Is there a way to force Captivate to keep the same name of all Objects on a slide when copying and pasting them into another Project (or anywhere for that matter)?

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May 12, 2020 May 12, 2020

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Here is a thought...

What if your named all your objects that you intend to reference using a common prefix?

That way you can use the JavaScript to find all objects with that prefix and when you copy/paste - the prefixes will remain.

myPrefix_object1 when pasted might become  myPrefix_object1_2 ...  myPrefix_object1_270

But you should still be able to find them.

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That's a great solution however I do have a second problem I should have mentioned (my fault), I am also using the specific numbers in the loop to reference the named objects I need to show/hide.

For instance, Letter_03 when, the loops reaches that letter I concatenate "Letter_0" with the number the loop is at "3" to then hide/show that object. Is there maybe a better way of doing this? Or better yet a way to copy/paste without Captivate renaming?

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Unfortunately, you're stuck on the copy/paste renaming.

I just know that if I need to do what you are doing - that I append a prefix prior to copy/paste because Captivate will constantly change the suffix. Then you just find all the objects with the prefix and there is no need to concatenate at all.

I know it is not much help in the moment - just some advice going forward.

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There is no way to prevent the renaming. This happens both within a project as between projects.  I already logged feature requests to prevent this from happening when pasting into a new project, but to no avail.  Because of the requirement of uniqueness of names within one project, I understand that renaming.

Rename consists of adding one number at the end. To restore the original names, you have to delete that last number.

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