Hello guy from NM,
You cannot create a new branch in the Adobe Captivate 2
Branching view. Branching occurs automatically when you insert a
new slide into your project. You can see this by opening up a
Captivate file created in demonstration mode. Here you will see all
the slides with the navigation option "Go to next slide" shown in
the Navigation menu.
In order to branch to a different part of your project file
you select the blue arrow that appears to the right of your
currently selected slide and then from the Navigation menu of the
Link panel located over on the left hand side of your screen and
choose another option such as "Jump to Slide". This will then
display a new menu underneath that enables you to specify which
slide you would like to jump to.
If you were then to switch back to the Edit view and choose
Slide > Properties and then look at the Navigation section of
the Slide Properties dialog you can then see the navigation option
and the slide number want to jump to.
If you want to add branching using an interactive object such
as a click box...Then you would start by inserting the said click
box and specifying which slide you want to jump to.
Again if you switch back to the Branching view you will
notice that now you have a a green arrow. If you roll over this
with your mouse point you will see that now the new options in the
Links panel which enable you to change the properties of the
interactive object, in this case a click box.
If you were to add another click box to this slide (in Edit
view) that on the last attempt were to jump to a slide much later
in your Captivate project then you would get another arrow, but
which will point to the slide you want to branch to.
Whilst I am talking about the Branching view, here is
something else to bear in mind. Let's say that for example I create
a slide navigation branch from slide 1 to slide 17 if I look in the
branching view I can see all the rest of the slides in my project.
However, if I then add a click box to slide 17 to Slide 30 and
again switch back to the branching view then I see the thumbnails
for slides 1, 17 and 30 and then 31, 32 etc.
This is because we now have a combination of both slide
navigation and object navigation and therefore this is the flow
learners will experience when I publish my project.
This can take a little getting used to be in a nutshell since
Captivate will ignore the
slides that the learner won't be able to jump to they are not
included in the Branching view.
Hope this helps
Regards,
Mark
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