Captivate Shared Reviews are based on Acrobat workspaces, right?

[T Rollins]

Since the very latest Captivate 7 publishes its shared reviews to Acrobat workspaces - and that is really the most effective way to use them, how will this feature be affected?

[Rebecca Staley]

The option to upload content and track results in Captivate with Workspaces [Acrobat.com] will be retired. At this time we have no alternative solution, but the Captivate team is actively looking for one. Stay tuned.

[Lilybiri]

Thanks, learned about that on Twitter and is very worrying. I am using workspaces all the time on acrobat.com. And have links to published files there all over my blog.

[RodWard]

Does Adobe have a timeframe for 'retiring' Acrobat.com Workspaces?  If they know they're going to do this then it would be a kindness to all the people currently using the service to inform them about by WHEN they need to have an alternate solution in place.

[Lilybiri]

All information about retiring workspaces 5th of January 2015 can be found here: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-4203   and questions in that forum.

As you can read near the bottom of those FAQ: the Captivate team is working on a solution, but no time frame mentioned.

Lieve

[T Rollins]

I think the Captivate team was taken by surprise as well. Adobe can be like that. Too big to even know what is going on with their products (which aren't a part of Creative Cloud) - otherwise, why would the Captivate team not have sent a message to their users? Captivate even has a built-in window for "News about Captivate", so it isn't like they don't have a mechanism for that.

Of all the features in Acrobat.com, shared reviews was the only one that really had much (unique) value, and it is a critical functionality when it comes to producing elearning. It is also one of the things which brought value to Captivate. I hope the team there comes up with a solution which corrects this significant oversight.

Ah, Adobe. What that we rely on shall you kill off next?

[PvH]

Any word on what the Captivate team has come up with if anything at the moment. We have 50 courses with 4 reviews and 6 different reviewers.  it is a big headache for us.