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Publishing to Google (Cloud)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 03:04:16 GMT

Hi,

My department have moved over to Google Enterprise which allows for the development of simple websites and the use of Google Drive. Does anyone know of a way to publish to Google that keeps all of the files related to each other?

Thanks,

Greig

TRIM, LiveCycle and PDF forms

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 03:37:37 GMT

Hi,

I am using LiveCycle Designer ES3 to produce a form to which I then applied reader extensions through Adobe Acrobat Pro XI. The users of the form have been using Adobe Reader 9 to fill out and save the form. The form is loaded into TRIM (a records management system. See http://www8.hp.com/au/en/software-solutions/software.html?compURI=1173707) and via a TRIM workflow various users fill it out as required. This was working okay in TRIM until a recent network changeover and this is where the explanation gets complicated.

The form hasn't changed but some users are now on a different network from the TRIM server and these users are also using Reader XI. When trying to get the form out of TRIM to work on it they get a message "This document enabled features in Adobe Reader. The document has been changed since it was created and use of extended features is no longer available. Please contact the author for the original version of this document.". Upon opening the form they find it locked down and they cannot make any changes, let alone save them. The thing is the document has not been changed. What has changed is that the document is in TRIM. TRIM is on a different network and the users have to log into it to access it.

I sent a Reader XI user a form via email and they were able to edit and save it. When the user uploaded it to TRIM and tried to open it they received the errror message and were unable to edit the document at all.

Any suggestions or thoughts are much appreciated.

Thanks,

Greig

Import slides from one project into another

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:00:37 GMT

Hi,

Apologies if this is the wrong forum. I am using Captivate 7 and am trying to import slides that I have recorded in one project into another project. I have a 800 x 600 project and have reduced some recordings to 640 x 480 in another project. I now want to bring those small slides into the 800 x 600 project so I can add notes and logos to the top and bottom but can't work out how to do this in Captivate 7. This is something that I used to regularly do in Captivate 4 so I am sure it can be done. I just can't find out how nor can I seem to ask the right question in help or these forums as I can't find any answers there. I don't care about doing it via importing if there is a better way.

Thanks,

Greig

Captivate 7 Crashing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:59:17 GMT

Hi,

I have recently installed Captivate 7 and am having some crashing issues.

I converted an old project to Captivate 7 and was able to open it, edit it, save it and close it. I then tried to create a blank project and Captivate crashes. Captivate puts a template slide in the blank project for me which looks like a PowerPoint slide with instructions to "Double click to add title". Being new to Captivate 7 I have tried to do this only to end up with the following error messages:

"A fatal error has occurred and the application is being terminated. Adobe Captivate has tried to save all your work in the respective project folders as ".cpbackup" files.

Please restart Adobe Captivate."

A randomly named backup file also appears (the randomness coming from the fact that I have not saved the new blank project I guess, although I did try a save and got the same issues with crashing).

As the blank project is still opened I have tried to go back and double-click to add a title only to be told:

"Placeholder_1 is either a reserved keyword or is already assigned to another item. Provide a different name for the item."

This is a bit odd as it is Captivate doing the naming, not me. I suspect that it might be in conflit with the cpbackup file?

Anyway, has anyway got any ideas before I blast it all away (not an easy option as I have to get ICT support to do this as I am not allowed to be an administrator on my machine) and reinstall or get my money back and go to an earlier version of Captivate that I know works?

Any help or suggestion is appreciated. I have tried renaming the resource folder in Application Data\Adobe but this did not seem to work.

Thanks for your time,

Greig

Text field in table not overflowing onto next page!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 01:38:43 GMT

Hi,

I have set up a table with a text field in the first row, added buttons to add and delete rows, set to allow page breaks and made the text field to expand to fit and allow multiple lines. The problem I am having is that if I put a lot of text into the text field it will not expand on to the next page so not all of the text is visible. If I just set up a 1 row table the expansion works as I would expect and takes up as many pages as needed. Somewhere along the line the add, remove buttons or their associated javascript or the Repeat Row option seems to be having an effect.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Greig

Dynamic page order

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:32:37 GMT

Hi,

I have a page that shows two pages but has the option to add further pages such as a diagram page. I have set up two diagram options - portrait or landscape - using master pages to control the orientation. I have ticked reapeat subform on the diagram pages and they are turned on via the buttons I have set up on the first page - one for landscape diagram and one for portrait diagram. What I would like to do is that, once a portrait diagram has been chosen, have the landscape diagram appear after it, or vice versa. So, for example, the resulting form could have a layout that goes landscape, portrait, portrait, landscape, depending on what order the buttons are chosen by the user.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for your help,

Greig

Date formats and rawValue

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:03:41 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to change the default rawValue of a date field. It seems to be my locale (Australia) default of D/MM/YY. I would like to make it appear as DD-MMM-YYYY.

I am also trying to add it to a Text Field, with a view to inserting into the middle of a sentence once a date has been chosen, using the datefield.rawValue. The Text Field seems to want to only display it as YYYY-MM-DD.

Thanks in advance for any help with or consideration of this problem.

Cheers,

Greig

Move table rows up and down

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:28:11 GMT

Hi,

I am creating a dynamic table that will, depending on how many options are chosen, have Row1[0], Row1[1], Row1[2], etc. When a row is created I would like to put a button on the row to allow users to move the row up or down in the table order. I have been trying to adapt a bit of JavaScript from the help files which moved a subform but I have had no luck. The JavaScript was based on the index but my index kept turning out to be 0 no matter how many rows I put in. I feel that I am missing something simple about how to capture the index number of a particular row.

Does anyone have any ideas or do I have to explain myself better? Or, should I just give up on the idea?!?!?!!!

Thanks for your help,

Greig

Dynamically add data to a table field from a drop-down?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:35:44 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to create a drop-down to dynamically populate a table based on what drop-down option is chosen. I can get it to work for adding a row at a time, which is fine, but I want to add text related to the chosen option to a field in the newly created row. I can get this to work using Row1.Field.rawValue = "blah blah blah" but when I want to get dynamic and call the row being created by using something like resolveNode I can't get anything to be entered into the field. Can this be done at all?

Here is my script:

==================

topmostSubform.Page1.tabletest.DropDownList2::exit - (JavaScript, client)

if (this.rawValue == 1) {

Table4._Row1.addInstance()

Page1.tabletest.Table4.Row1.Identity.rawValue = "Easement for Transmission Line"

};

if (this.rawValue == 2) {

Table4._Row1.addInstance()

Page1.tabletest.Table4.resolveNode(Row1[Table4.Row1.instanceManager.count-1]).Identity.ra wValue = "Easement for electricity and other purposes"

xfa.host.messageBox("Ausgrid");

};

===================

The first part, for this.rawValue == 1 works okay for one instance of adding. The second part, where I have tried to do a resolveNode, adds a row but does not enter any text.

Thanks in advance for your help with, and consideration of, this problem.

Cheers,

Greig

Search Highlight in Merged WebHelp

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:33:43 GMT

Hi,

I have created and published a Merged WebHelp Project. I have used the highlight search script as outlined in Method 1 on Peter Grainge's pages. When I search for a term in the default topic and click on the search results list to see the page I get a pop-up error message stating "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site 'drive/startpage.htm'". Nothing drastic happens when I click the message but it is not nice for the users!

Any thoughts? Does it matter that the search JavaScript is in a folder on the parent project and is called from there?

Thanks,
Greig

SWF animation not appearing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:10:44 GMT

Hi,

I downloaded the textInput.swf and textOutput.swf and put them into a Captivate 1 movie but they don't appear when I play the movie!

Any ideas?

Thanks very much for your help,
Greig

RH8 Repeated topic name in TOC

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:00:35 GMT

Hi,

I have a project that mimics and online procedure that has a repeated step in it. I therefore have the topic appear twice in my table of contents (ToC). Even though I used two different topics and, therefore, html pages to represent each occurrence of the topic the ToC would still highlight the first topic name in the list even though the user was on the second one.

E.G, suppose the ToC listed Topic1, Topic2, Topic3, Topic4, Topic3

When going to the first Topic3 RH highlights the Topic3 in the ToC. When I click on the second Topic3 it opens up okay but RH8 highlighted the first occurrence of Topic3.

To get around this I put an extra space at the end of the ToC entry for the second occurrence. Has anyone else had a similar thing happen in the table of contents and, if so, how did they get around it?

Apologies if this has been posted before but my search didn't turn up anything. I thought it was worth posting as the solution seems to work and someone else might be having a similar issue.

Greig

Variables in email reporting or quiz variables in captions for captivate 4?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:49:48 GMT

Hi,

Captivate 4, cp4

I have been all around the forums without getting an exact answer to what I want to do. Perhaps there isn't one but, anyway...

I am trying to collect quiz information. I just want a simple collection of data that shows that someone has completed the quiz, which just a set of multiple response statements, and who that someone is. I have started by using Text Entry Boxes (TEB) to collect their name and assigned a variable (v_Name) to this to reuse the information in a certificate. So far so good and this works. I have set up email reporting on the quiz and, providing users actually hit the button and accept both messages, the email gets sent. All I am looking for in the email is that a user has completed the quiz. The score and results do not matter. Now, here comes the issue. I would like to record the user's name (v_Name) in the quiz results that are emailed in. No matter how many reporting options or marks I give the TEB or what options for reporting I select the information will not appear in the emailed report. I can set up a question slide to ask for the name and this will appear in my emailed report but will not appear in my certificate.

Any ideas?

I have tried to play around with padMail in the resulting HTML to try and draw out the variables but had no luck (I am a JavaScript novice).

Is there a way of emailing a slide view? Or a widget to do this (I have been unable to find one).

LMS is not a solution at the moment and upgrading is unlikely to happen as I am still trying to get all Captivate users in the office up to 4 from 3!

Is it possible to take a quiz answer and use it like a TEB variable and put it into another slide via a caption? E.G., $$Interaction1234$$ or some action script to make v_Name = interaction1234?

I am looking for a simple solution. I have looked into all of the post to database articles and they have been somewhat helpful but I am only trying to capture simple data so as the users can just be ticked off as having completed it.

I am not holding out much hope. It seems quizzing in Captivate is good for self-assessment and to provide branching but the reporting feature is a bit of a failure.

Thanks very much to anyone who just reads this and gets this far!

Even more thanks to anyone who is willing to share ideas.

Greig

Text entry box (TEB) in and out (and in and out) of focus

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:59:47 GMT

Hi,

I am using captivate 4 and publishing to Flash (SWF) with Export HTML.

I have created a text entry box (TEB) to capture the users name at the beginning of the simulation/assessment. The problem I am having with it, however, is that when I click in the text entry box in the published flash file on a server (seems to be okay run from my local files) to enable entry the focus is lost before I type, meaning that I have to click in the text entry box again to regain focus. It usually loses focus again before I get to type. Third time seems to be lucky. If I wait a while then click and type seems to work on the first attempt. I have the TEB appearing after 0.0 seconds.

I don't mind having to click and then type but doing it a couple of times is quite annoying!

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time,

Greig

catalog index pdx could not open

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:55:56 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to create a catalog (Acrobat 9 pro extended) for about 540 PDF files (and growing weekly!) and often see in my log that the index process has failed to open certain files. There is no security on these files and when I do a search it seems that they have been indexed but as it is skipping about 50-odd files each time I build/rebuild the index every week I can't be sure I have actually managed to get them all included in the index.

What could be causing the "could not open" errors?

Any help/ideas is appreciated.

Thanks for your time,

Greig

Why has searching the forums been made so difficult?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:39:04 GMT

In the old forums the search defaulted to the forum you were in. Now it searches across all forums and one has to then go and refine the search to the forum that one wants. Frustrating in the extreme.

New forums pages annoying you?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:05:34 GMT

I have bookmarked the RoboHelp Support Forums so I come straight to the home page for them. In the old style forum I was then able to search these forums directly. I find now that when I am doing a search it searches across ALL adobe forums and only when I get the results am I able to restrict the search to the RoboHelp forums! Even then I have to scroll through a huge list in a small box. I have tried to report this but am unable to find out how. Is anyone able to suggest anything?

Thanks for your time.

Greig

Improving WebHelp search results

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:01:40 GMT

For those who are interested there was a recent article about altering the way WebHelp presents its search results by tweaking the JavaScript. See http://www.helpscribe.com/2008/10/improving-webhelp-search-results-in.html.

Any thoughts, comments or related ideas?

Captivate Updates

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:26:45 GMT

Hi,

I have seen mention in the forums of a couple of updates to Captivate 3. I would like to know how to get hold of any updates without having to go through Help > Updates...

I am running Captivate Version 3.0.0 Build 580. I also need to know what is included in any updates as I have to make a case for installing the update.

I am not the administrator of my own computer. I have to log any installs and updates with my ICT Help Desk. When programmes such as Captivate are installed they are usually done when I am not around and the installer likes to turn off features such as checking for updates. I have similar problems for the whole Technical Communication Suite. In fact, I didn't even get the latest version of Acrobat 3D as the installer decided that, seeing as though I had Acrobat Professional 7, I didn't need it!

I looked at the downloads section for Captivate on the Adobe website to find that it had an update for Version 1.01 - http://www.adobe.com/support/captivate/downloads.html

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions anyone can provide.

CatBandit v Captiv8r

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:35:01 GMT

A place for Larry and Rick to discuss their differences without it impinging on those of us who use the forums as a way to share knowledge and work collaboratively.

TOC not opening up

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:07:46 GMT

Hi,

My programmer is calling a merged WebHelp Project from Oracle forms. When opening the WebHelp the TOC appears but doesn't expand to show the current page. I am using the format published/startpage.html#mergedProject/child_1/overview/overview.html to call a particular section of webhelp. I have tried generating to Local PC instead of Web (Thanks RoboWizard) and I have added the lines of code suggested in Section 8 of Merged WebHelp on Peter Grainge's excellent site.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Greig

The path "d:" is too long

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:46:03 GMT

Hi,

When opening a particular project in RoboHelp I get a message "The path "d:" is too long and will be deleted from the project." The delete doesn't seem to work as I get this message every time I open the project. Has anyone else come across a similar error message? It doesn't seem to be causing any problems but it is annoying.

Thanks,
Greig

Rollover Pop-ups

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:01:28 GMT

Is there any way of making pop-ups (including text-only) open and close via a mouse rollover rather than relying on them being clicked. My problem is that I am using text-only pop-ups in pages that are already pop-ups and clicking to close the text-only pop-up closes the whole window! My hope is that by using a roll-over the user will still have the original pop-up page when they move away from the text-only pop-up and, also, to make the text-only pop-up appear via a mouse rollover as a click is not necessarily intuitive for the user.

Thanks for your time,
Greig

Adobe Community : All Content - All Communities

Publishing to Google (Cloud)

TRIM, LiveCycle and PDF forms

Import slides from one project into another

Captivate 7 Crashing

Text field in table not overflowing onto next page!

Dynamic page order

Date formats and rawValue

Move table rows up and down

Dynamically add data to a table field from a drop-down?

Search Highlight in Merged WebHelp

SWF animation not appearing

RH8 Repeated topic name in TOC

Variables in email reporting or quiz variables in captions for captivate 4?

Text entry box (TEB) in and out (and in and out) of focus

catalog index pdx could not open

Tag Cloud in RoboHelp 8 WebHelp

Why has searching the forums been made so difficult?

New forums pages annoying you?

Improving WebHelp search results

Captivate Updates

CatBandit v Captiv8r

TOC not opening up

The path "d:" is too long

Rollover Pop-ups