13 Replies Latest reply on May 3, 2012 5:46 PM by mandrill22

Creating a Quit Button

kim.g Apr 20, 2012 1:37 PM

I have been trying to find a way to create an interactive button in Captivate 5.5 that will allow the learner to exit my project. Today I came across the Rapid eLearning / Adobe Captivate Blog titled "Creating Custom Adobe Captivate 5 buttons". This question was asked and the response was that there is a workaround.

Create a blank slide as the last slide and give it a duration of 0.1 sec.
Set the action for the Quit button to Jump to slide and link it to the last slide.
Click Edit > Preferences > Project > Start and End
For the Project End Options, Select close this presentation.

Has anyone done this and been successful? I've tried this and can't seem to make it work. Either nothing happens or for some reason it just advances my presentation to the next slide. I would really love any help I can get to make this work. Thanks.

1. Re: Creating a Quit Button

RodWard Apr 20, 2012 6:59 PM (in response to kim.g)

Can you show us a screenshot of the Properties > Actions accordion of the button?
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2. Re: Creating a Quit Button

kim.g Apr 20, 2012 7:51 PM (in response to RodWard)

Here are screen shots from the Actions accordion for the page with the button along with the Actions accordian from the last slide and the Properties window.

Thanks for your help.

Kim
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3. Re: Creating a Quit Button

RodWard Apr 20, 2012 8:52 PM (in response to kim.g)

Does it work if you change your button type to an ordinary text button and make your final slide a little longer duration, say 1 second?
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Captiv8r Apr 20, 2012 8:57 PM (in response to kim.g)

Hi Kim

I think it might behoove you to read the link below.

Click here to view

Cheers... Rick

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Captivate Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
Adobe Certified Captivate Training
SorcerStone Blog
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5. Re: Creating a Quit Button

kim.g Apr 22, 2012 7:47 AM (in response to RodWard)

I just tried that and it didn't work either. So far nothing I've found seems to work. I may just have to use the exit button that the skin provides when It's published.
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Captiv8r Apr 22, 2012 8:05 AM (in response to kim.g)

Hi Kim

If you read the link I pointed you to, you will discover that the Exit button on the playback control will most likely also fail.

Cheers... Rick

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Adobe Certified Captivate Training
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7. Re: Creating a Quit Button

Tom Tantalus Apr 26, 2012 5:20 AM (in response to kim.g)

How do you publish the project? Would it be an option to publish to PDF?
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8. Re: Creating a Quit Button

james.star215 Apr 27, 2012 8:00 AM (in response to kim.g)

Can you assign JS to the button?

javascript:top.window.close();
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9. Re: Creating a Quit Button

kim.g Apr 27, 2012 8:14 AM (in response to james.star215)

Can you tell me how to do that and I'll give it a try. I'm using version 5.5
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10. Re: Creating a Quit Button

james.star215 Apr 27, 2012 8:22 AM (in response to kim.g)
Here's how I did mine.

On the last screen of my course I inserted a button. The button type is Text Button and the caption I chose was "Close". The caption is just what text you want to display on the button.
Under the action, On Success, I chose Execute Javascript.
Click the script window button.
Copy and paste this code: javascript:top.window.close();

That's it. You can publish and test it locally on your computer.
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11. Re: Creating a Quit Button

Captiv8r Apr 27, 2012 4:05 PM (in response to james.star215)

Hi James

And are you saying that this works 100% of the time in all browsers regardless of how the window was opened?

Cheers... Rick

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12. Re: Creating a Quit Button

james.star215 Apr 30, 2012 8:18 AM (in response to Captiv8r)

I wish that was the case. This was tested using Internet Explorer. Our courses are opened in their own window when being launched from the SkillSoft LMS.

Therefore, I cannot say for sure if this works for Safari, Chrome, FireFox, etc...
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13. Re: Creating a Quit Button

mandrill22 May 3, 2012 5:46 PM (in response to james.star215)

It works in Chrome too.

But only when I do "Preview in Web Browser" from Captivate.

Published file does not work in Chrome, or Explorer for that matter.
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