Cp6 - Reusing advanced actions?

Shawn,

If you knew how many times I have been pleading, begging, to have a solution for this problem since advanced actions appeared in CP4.... But apparently it never made it on the priority list for the team. Other features were more important and nobody regrets that more than I do. Do not know if you once visited my blog... it is focusing for the most part on advanced actions.

With Captivate 6 one small thing has changed: you can save a file immediately as a template, and a template will have all the variables and advanced actions. Then you'll just have to clean it up. That is the way I'm reusing variables and advanced actions since they appeared. But in previous versions the save as a template were not available.

If not enough users ask for improvements about advanced actions, they'll never make it. I have introduced long lists with possible improvements, only the save as a template has made it up till now.

Lilybiri

You did not tell what the differences are between the templates, but you can use the same dummy project to create several templates, not?

Every time I look forward to a new release, with the hope that we'll get improvements to advanced actions, but up till now have always been disappointed

Lilybiri

Yup, print possibility was one of my requests on the lists. And also being able to add comments.

Apparently not enough users are suffering or willing to enter requests.

Lilybiri

Oh my gosh, consider me in on this one!

I am just getting back into Captivate again and I am running into all kinds of gotchas. I dislike advanced actions and avoid them when possible because you can't copy them, print them... or anything.

Also, I think there is a bug in Captivate 6 because using the USAGE option doesn't work. The window that opens is always blank, even where the advanced action is clearly in use.

Can someone please post the Adobe Captivate wish list (or whatever it is called) address and I will immediately send my request.

Glad to find three people who care about this.

Here is the link to feature request form:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=5

BTW Usage button is working fine for me in the Advanced Actions dialog box, use it all the time. One other request I filed several times is to have a similar Usage button for the variables, so that it will be easier to delete variables that are no longer in use.

Lilybiri

I would like to add my voice to the request for increased reusability in Captivate, particularly the re-use of Advanced Actions. I work at a large company with well over 50 designers. Once Captivate was our standard design tool. Today we use a much less powerful tool because that tool allows for complete reusability of any portion of the course (our current tool is DITA compliant).

I would love to see the Captivate team focus on reusability. Many large companies are moving towards reusable training content, and Captivate has fallen behind its competitors in this respect.

Posting something like this on the User Forum is not the best way to "add your voice".  You should log a feature request using the form page that Adobe provides on their website.  Those requests get tracked.  User posts like this one don't.