- Open the Actions Dialog – select Project Actions
- In advanced Actions tab, select the Choose an action to edit… drop down, and select Create a new action.
- Name the action – e.g. closePlaybar
- In the white panel below you should see the text Add Statement – double-click it
- Some new text will appear, and the text Statement will turn red. Doube-click the Statement text.
- Select assignment from the list that appears.
- Choose cpCmdShowPlaybar from the menu.
- You will be offered the option to choose variable or value – choose value
- Type 0 (zero) and then choose Save and then Close.
- Open the Slide Properties window for the desired slide by double-clicking the slide in the Filmstrip.
- In the Navigation section, choose On slide enter: Execute advanced Action.
- Select closePlaybar in the Action drop-down menu.
Watch the following demo to view the steps in Captivate 4.
For a better quality demo, click this link
[UPDATE]
‘cpuser’ commented on this on the Adobe Captivate General Discussion forum.
Assign standard action can also be used to achieve the same result. Follow the below steps –
1. Open Slide properties
2. Select “Assign” action from On Slide Enter event
3. Select “cpCmndShowPlaybar” from the list of variables
4. Enter “0” as the value to be assigned with
5. Preview the movie and observe that the playbar is not visible
And he/she is completely correct – thank you. However at least some of the purpose of my demo was to show more generally how you can get started working with Adobe Captivate 4 variables and Actions, so I’ll leave it up 🙂
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This is exactly what I needed. I appreciate the demo too.
Excellent tip! Thanks!
Thanks a million! I need this when creating a simulation assessment in SCORM reporting mode using Blackboard 9.
Thank you again :)))
Simple and effective. Many thanks.
Steve,
I am working on branching within captivate and I am trying to get the back button to jump to a specific slide based on a variable I stored during a choice a user made earlier in the training.
A. Is there an easy way to get to the back/forward button controls within captivate to alter their functionality
B. If not is there an easy way to disable buttons on certain slides, without hiding the whole playbar.
Thanks for the help
zcarr
I looked at modifying the behaviour of the Captivate controller, and could not see a way. I could not find the logic that performs the navigation.
‘Easy’ is really the problem here. I think those with great Flash skills can work this out, but mere mortals like you and I have a harder time.
You can create your own buttons to do something like you want using Captivate variables, but they will not be part of the Captivate controller.
Steve,
I ended up getting the branching working by adding multiple empty slides one the ends of each path that basically run if/else’s and check for the variable chosen initially by the user.
I am now past that and have built my own playbar which uses some of the accessible Captivate variables, such as nextSlide etc. I can then create user vars in cap and build the nav to do checks of the custom user vars. like if current slide is “certainValue” && userChosePathA then do this thing.
I hope to actually make a wrapper fro the captivate swf where I can access other swf’s within the captivate that hold my functions. Have you tried that approach at all.
Also, being new to Captivate, what is the plus to using the “widgets” over just placing blank swf’s with function calls?
Thanks for the response
This is FANTASTIC! Step-by-step gave me EXACTLY what I needed for a corporate exam. Many thanks! -Ron