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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 Build cutting edge professional SCORM compliant and interactive eLearning content with Adobe Captivate

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789803051
Length 770 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Dr. Pooja Jaisingh Dr. Pooja Jaisingh
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Damien Bruyndonckx Damien Bruyndonckx
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 2019 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Standard Objects 3. Working with Multimedia 4. Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools 5. Developing Interactivity 6. Crafting the Graphical Experience with Styles and Themes 7. Working with Quizzes 8. Capturing Onscreen Action 9. Producing a Video Demo 10. Creating a Responsive Project 11. Creating Virtual Reality Projects 12. Using Captivate with Other Applications 13. Creating Accessible eLearning 14. Variables and Advanced Actions 15. Finishing Touches and Publishing 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Step 2 – Creating the Shared Action

You will now create the actions that will update the value of the Variables that you created in the preceding section to 1 and jump the playhead to a different slide when the student clicks the buttons on slide 13.

If you think about it, you have three Buttons on slide 13 to which you want to apply a similar behavior (changing the value of a Variable to 1 and jumping to a slide). The only differences between the actions you'll create are the specific Variable to update and the specific slide to jump to. Thanks to Shared Actions, you will create a single Advanced Action that you will reuse multiple times, only changing some parameters each time you use the action.

In this exercise, you will use the following steps to create an Advanced Action that updates the value of the v_standardTicket_visited variable to 1 and jumps the user to slide 14:

  1. Still in the Chapter14/takeTheTrain.cptx file, use the Project | Advanced Actions menu item to open...
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