This is only an issue if you are trying to serve your content from an internal networked LAN drive.

If you serve your content from a web server, Flash Global Security is not an issue.

Are you saying you have set up a webserver on your PC to test the content via HTTP://Localhost/ and Flash Global Security is still preventing it from working?

OK.  That's what I thought.

What I have to tell you is that if you are trying to run Captivate content on your hard drive or a LAN drive or a USB drive or a CD ROM drive using a web browser, then you MUST have Flash Global Security set up to trust that location, otherwise links to other URLs or files will NOT work.

If you are trying to deliver content that will call URLs, you MUST find a way to serve that content from a web server.  Your clients and end users are definitely NOT going to like being told that they have to mess with Flash Global Security to get your content to work properly.

There is no way around it that I know of.  Use a web server is your best option.

I have tried server2Go and it's a good solution if you are distributing CD ROMs or USB sticks, but it doesn't work out quite so well when you want to run something from a LAN drive on a corporate server.

Actually, it occured to me that perhaps my last post was not complete enough.  I didn't explain WHY server2Go doesn't work out as a good solution in a corporate LAN environment.

The reason is that server2Go requires the course participant to launch the server2Go application to fire up this standalone web server so that it can deliver the content.  However, this means they need to execute an EXE file on the network.  Most of the time this is NOT going to fly with the corporate IT department because their internal antivirus software will kill EXE files or prevent them from working.

In a CD ROM or USB delivered course situation, the user has more permissions.  You can launch and EXE file from a CD ROM using the Autorun files.  Similar with a USB.  You can just tell the user to double click a file that will start server2Go and then have the index.htm file either be the opening page of the course or else redirect to it.

So while server2Go is a great little tool for some situations, it doesn't cover every need.

Hi there

What do we think about this?

We think that you are basically reinventing the wheel. Captivate Click Boxes and Buttons already allow you to open a URL. Using JavaScript is ignoring that functionality and creating your own. Actually causing you more work in the end.

I sense that you likely feel that by using JavaScript you feel you are being clever and somehow bypassing or escaping the Flash behavior. The problem here is that even if you use JavaScript, you are STILL bound by the confines of the Flash Player security settings because it's coming from the Flash Player. So while I applaud your thinking outside the box, it still isn't going to help you overcome this limitation. Sorry.

Cheers... Rick

Hi there

I'm not sure how well it may or may not work here, but I do see mention of something known as a "trust file" that you might be able to use in order to overcome this.

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Cheers... Rick