If you subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud I would highly suggest you use Adobe Premiere or Adobe After Effects. You can even create an animation using Adobe Animate and export it as a video. I don't believe Adobe Captivate is the tool for your question. However, it really depends on what you're trying to do. ... View more

Stagprime  wrote OK - I did a little write up with an example. Hopefully it helps. Branching Navigation - eLearning Wow! Awesome blog post! Thank you so much! I have to come up to speed with using variables and advanced actions. I have in the passed, but I would not say I am an expert in this department.  Thanks again for taking the time to create this blog lesson. ... View more

Thanks for taking the time out of  your busy schedule to write this awesome blog. I'm studying it now.  I'll get back on my thoughts. Thanks again! ... View more

Stagprime  wrote One might give an example of  both the manager and non-manager being on slide 9 and the manager pressing the next button and going to slide 10 because they are a manager but the non-manager goes to slide 11 because they do not need to see slide 10. All from hitting the same button. The key is that we need to tell Captivate who is a manager and who is not. This is where the actions placed on the button come in and the need to differentiate between the two come in. If you want to explore this idea further - just let me know. This sounds interesting. ... View more

Stagprime​ thanks for taking the time to show me this. However, I might be at fault, because I did not correctly communicate the issue earlier in the thread. Once the user chooses the Managers and Non Managers button, they will will go to the next slide. However, I want the Non Managers NOT to go to some slides. Both Managers and Non Manangers will be using the same Next button since they will both be on the same slide.  I think I have drawn this thread far too long with no results. I apologize to everyone. I will just make duplicate slides for now. ... View more

I know this thread is probably ended, but I think I might understand the error in my original diagram. There is only one path, (manager and non manager) sharing the same next button. That's the problem for me. The next button that is shared by the Manager Path and Non Manager Path has to show all of the slides for the Manager Path while eliminating slides for the Non Manager Path. However, they are the same Path.  Hope this is a little clearer. I thank you all for trying to help.  ... View more

Lilybiri  wrote Please, try to answer the questions.  Can you create those three groups I was talking abut, maybe there are only two groups from what you wrote. Forget about those buttons for a moment: you can have a Next button that is jumping to a totally different slide than the Next slide. This is what you have to do, but you must have a proper flow chart, not the one you showed with duplicate slides. Have no duplicate slides, but all the slides. Put them in the right sequence. Indicate on each slide whether it has to be visited by the Non-manager group or not.  You can even use a table, no need for a flow chart. If you can show that table, will be able to give you the actions you'll need. For the first slide you have to capture indeed a value for a user variable. How did you set it up? Do you ue a Text Entry Box or do you want radio buttons? Lilybiri​ your conditional actions above make a lot of sense. Now I have to learn how to create them. ... View more

I apologize for this long confusing thread. I do understand Branching. My explanation was confusing and I'm sorry about that. From what I believe some of you were trying to explain (and correct me if I am wrong), was that if I used actions it would allow the next button to jump to a slide. Is the bottom diagram correct in explaining this? If this is the case that sort of action is above my skill level right now. ... View more

Do I start a new thread? I'm more confused than ever now. ... View more

I do not need to leave the playbar. I do not believe you can find that in my previous post. ... View more

Stagprime  wrote I am not confused by this at all, really, but the unknown is which slides share the same content and what order they are in. This will affect the logic. As such, I have a picture in my head where all the first 30 slides are shared except the end six ones. In this scenario we really only need a couple button tweaks. At the end of the shared stuff, the next button will need the advanced action for variable check. If the value is zero, they are a non-manager and we take the learner to the end. If the value is one, we just continue to take the learner to the additional manager slides. The manager button on the intro slide can be an advanced action to set the variable to 1 and go to the next slide. The variable can default at zero for the non-manager. If the slide path is non-linear, I would need more detail. Below is a rough, condensed sketch of my brain. If you're feeling leery about using the variable and advanced actions, Rod provides a nice explanation for an alternative. Thanks for this info. Unfortunately, I am not at this level of actions within Captivate yet. I am using Captivate 8 at work and Captivate 2017 at home. It's time to come up to speed with advanced actions. What makes this even  more difficult is there are going to be quizzes coming up!!! ... View more

Stagprime  wrote If that means the first four slides are shared and the last two are not - it simplifies things a lot. The validation does not have to be anything fancy and when it comes time to end the non-managers and keep the managers going - all you need there is a quick variable check. If varManagers == 1 then gotoSlide x Else gotoSlide y The variable being set at the beginning with the validation. @Stagprime I'm not up to speed on my variables. In one slide I am going to have a Manager Button and a Non Manager Button. The Manager Button will go to one slide and the Non Manager Button will go to another slide. From there on in, each of those buttons will have a previous button and a next button. There will be 36 slides. The Manager Button will go through all of the slides. But the Non Manager should only go through 30 of the slides.  How do I make this happen with a Next Button and Previous Button that shows up on the slide for both Manager and Non Manager? I really apologize this is so confusing. ... View more

Lilybiri  wrote Please, try to answer the questions.  Can you create those three groups I was talking abut, maybe there are only two groups from what you wrote. Forget about those buttons for a moment: you can have a Next button that is jumping to a totally different slide than the Next slide. This is what you have to do, but you must have a proper flow chart, not the one you showed with duplicate slides. Have no duplicate slides, but all the slides. Put them in the right sequence. Indicate on each slide whether it has to be visited by the Non-manager group or not.  You can even use a table, no need for a flow chart. If you can show that table, will be able to give you the actions you'll need. For the first slide you have to capture indeed a value for a user variable. How did you set it up? Do you ue a Text Entry Box or do you want radio buttons? Okay great! Tomorrow when I get back to work I will create a table and post it here. Thanks for your patience. I still don't know how it can be done since one slide with one button is told to go to another slide... unless if through an action it goes back to another slide.... I'm blabbering on... sorry. ... View more

Lilybiri  wrote I have been using tons of apps, not only from Adobe but eLearning is somethiing totally different, which is the problem. There are no slides to be visited by both instead of the first and the last slide? What is the meaning of that four-arms cross in the middle? Don't understand its meaning. Each of the slides for the Manager and Non Managers will have a Next button and Previous button. This is the problem. Both Managers and Non Manager slides will share the same slides. The problem is, the Non Manager slides should not visit a few of the slides that the manager slides visit. That's the problem I'm having. That's why I have to duplicate the slides. ... View more

Lilybiri  wrote Maybe you could ask to have a proper training for Captivate   I have tried to help you with questions multiple times, but that is not the most efficient way of learning an app that has so many features and possibilities. You cannot combine the two scenarios without having conditional shared (will be better than advanced) actions, based on the value of a user varianble that is populated when the choice has been made. To make that choice on the first slide, you could go with what StagPrime suggest, but honestly I believe that is way above your present skills. It would be much easier to use the approach I explained in the Blog post 'Branh aware'. The try to group the slides. You may have 3 types of slides: Slides to be viewed by both groups of learners Slides to be viewd only by the first group Slides to be veiwed only by the second group. Group those 3 types of slides. That will make the branching easier. Since I don't know anything about the sequence of those slides, cannot explain more at this moment. THe first group of learners should skip all slides of type 3, the second group should skip all slides of group 2. I'm afraid you misinterpret my questions. I have been using Adobe products for many, many years and I am quite competent in all of them. Adobe Captivate is my newest tool and I do admit I ask many questions here.  Sorry for being somewhat frustrating with my posts.   Perhaps the diagram below might help. ... View more

Stagprime  wrote A thought... As far as the branching goes, this might possibly be accomplished if, on the first slide, you ask for some sort of validation. This may or may not be practical depending on how you validate or if the number of individuals is too great. 10,000 foot view... For example, suppose I have some sort of employee number that the user is supposed to enter. When they submit the information, validation determines if their number is on manager list or not. If it is on the manager list, we branch in one direction, if they are not on the list, we go down the other branch. You would need a unique identifier for this purpose (preferably unknown to the others like a password). You would not want the non-managers accessing the manager side. It could be something that already exists or something you generate. There would be no need to  duplicate slides but you would have to labor over the logic a bit. If the information is not sensitive in nature, you may not need to worry about that. That's a good suggestion but I doubt my supervisor will want to use it. But thank you for your suggestion. ... View more

Lilybiri  wrote No, why should you need that? Create two files, please. I still don't know how you will ask the learner about their function. I will read your blog when I have the time. I'm creating this captivate file from HR's PowerPoint presentation. I am recreating the content in Captivate. HR wants to combine the two together and have it branch. ... View more

Lilybiri  wrote I give up. Why did you ask about branching if you don'gt want to branch reallkY I don't even know how you ask the learner for his function? It has to be easy: create two courses, and ask them to choose the appropriate one. Do not try to do it in one course if you don't want to use branching. Then I should have a button for managers and non managers on each slide correct? I apologize for being so slow to grasp this. ... View more

  wrote NOT AT ALL!  that is what I grote. Why duplicate slides and increase file size, while you can define the action for each button. You can skip slides. Based on the answer which defines the role, you create condtitional actions where necessary. Understood. But I merely have a next and previous button going from the manager and non manager's slide. So unless I am going to create some advanced actions I don't know how to work around this problem. ... View more

Lilybiri  wrote I never duplicate slides at all to achieve branching scenarios. It is possible to skip slides, to jump to slides, why do you have to duplicate slides that are used in both scenarios? Can you please first read those blog posts? Yes I will go through your blog, I promise. But right now I have to get this done so I will have to read it later. If each button has a next and previous button I will have to duplicate slides for manager and non managers, do you agree? ... View more

Thanks. So for now I have to duplicate certain slides as well correct? ... View more

Lilybiri  wrote Have no CP8 anymore, but I used to crop characters for having half)size. I did that tool with Photoshop. However, the realized I imported them again into Captivate at a much larger resolution. NO doubt that was because of the resolution I had them export from Photoshop. ... View more

I'm at work using Captivate 8. Captivate 8 does not import OAM files. It's too early a version. I'll try it with Captivate 2017 at home. ... View more