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I am using Adobe Captivate to create an online learning course.

An abbreviation is broken down into 6 buttons, each with an action to bring you to their respective slides. Once the slide is complete, you are brought back to the original.

The ask: the original slide with the abbreviation should only display a 'continue' button once the user has visited all 6 slides.

Is there a way to do this with ActionScript?

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  • AFAIK (and my husband is on the advisory committe for Captivate), you can't directly use Actionscript in Captivate. You have to use "[Advanced Actions](http://lilybiri.posterous.com/tag/advancedactions)" instead – Amy Blankenship Apr 15 '13 at 19:00
  • So these advanced actions are just limited Actionscript functions? Do you think this functionality is just not doable? – user1380540 Apr 16 '13 at 14:07
  • It's doable, but not with Actionscript. Go ask on the Captivate forum at forums.adobe.com. I could have once told you how to do this off the top of my head, but not today. – Amy Blankenship Apr 16 '13 at 15:51

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You can hide or show buttons in Captivate. You can also change whether or not they are shown using Advanced Actions (you'd probably need to use the conditional actions).

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I'm not familiar with ActionScript, but there's an easy way to do this using the Advanced Actions in Captivate. Here's how I would approach it. First, create six variables, one for each of the six respective slides, so you could create variables called v_slide1_viewed, v_slide2_viewed, v_slide3_viewed, v_slide4_viewed, v_slide5_viewed, and v_slide6_viewed. Set their default values equal to 0 (I usually prefix my variables with v_ to distinguish from the inbuilt Captivate variables).

Now on slide 1, set an On Enter property to assign the value 1 to the variable v_slide1_viewed. This means, that when slide 1 loads, the variable 'v_slide1_viewed' will be set to 1. Similarly do this for each of the six respective slides.

Now on the abbreviation slide, create a SmartShape (Continue) button and uncheck the 'Visible in Output' so that by default this button is not displayed. Now you can write an advanced actions (conditional) script that says if 

v_slide1_viewed = 1 AND 
v_slide1_viewed = 2 AND 
v_slide1_viewed = 3 AND 
v_slide1_viewed = 4 AND 
v_slide1_viewed = 5 AND 
v_slide1_viewed = 6

Then Show and select the smartshape ID or whatever you named that object.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

-Sean

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