How can I make slides NOT advance automatically in Captivate 6?

Hi there

Not sure what you mean with Smart Caption. There are Text Captions and there are Smart Shapes.

Typically, if you want a slide to pause, you insert a Click Box or a Button object and playback will stop until some action is performed by the viewer.

Cheers... Rick

Hi there,

Welcome to adobe Community.

You can use the Pause project until user clicks option. Select the smartshape and on the right side properties pane you will see this under Options

Hope this helps!

Thanks!

I am sorry but I did not completely understand what exactly you are trying to say.

When you insert a smart shape on a master slide and use it as a button and choose that option and apply that master slide to your project then the project content plays and then the slide pauses.

Thanks!

Hi Bill,

Thank you for explaining the issue in detail. In that case you can insert a SmartShape Placeholder on the Master Slide by going to Insert > Placeholder Objects > Smart Shape.

This way the smartshape will be there on the Master Slide but you can configure it according to every slide. You can make it appear after any number of seconds.

Thanks!

This looks great, but my adobe Cp 6 does not show "Pause project until user clicks".  Does anyone know why not?  Thanks in advance.

Have you placed the smartshape button on the normal slide or the master slide? You get this option when your smartshape button is on the master slide.

Sreekanth

Excellent!  Thank you!

Thanks for many useful tips Sreekanth,

Now I have also run into problems trying to prevents slides from advancing.

I have a slide with a complex drag and drop "game" and the user should be allowed to try and drag and drop things back and forth between the different drop targets until he clicks submit and the result is calculated.

However, if I try to move the same drop source around 3-4 times, the slide automatically starts advancing to the next slide.

I have tried to create a click box that pauses the project, I have tried with a button - but nothing seems to work

It is so frustrating that such a simple thing should be so complicated.

After working on this for a few hours I realized the solution. When assigning variables I needed to execute an advanced action so that I can put a pause after each action.

I didn't think there was a "pause" option under advanced actions.

You can use Advanced Actions to pause the timeline, but for a given number of seconds.

How do you do that? (Use advanced actions to pause the timeline for a set number of seconds, I mean.)

Sorry, my apology.  There should have been a NOT in that sentence above.  (Typing without caffiene in the bloodstream is not recommended.)

So it SHOULD have read: "You can use Advanced Actions to pause the timeline, but NOT for a given number of seconds."

You can use the Pause action to stop the timeline, but Advanced Actions are event-based.  Which means they need something to kick them in the ribs to execute and do their stuff.  Usually this is something like the entry or exit of a slide, or the user doing something like clicking on a button.

You might be better off investigating using JavaScript for this.  It seems to be the answer to everything nowadays.

I have the exact same problem and exact same complaint.  Did you ever get this to work successfully?  If so, would you mind saying exactly how you did it?

Have you tried the solutions provided in this thread?

Sreekanth

Sorry I didn't reply.  It worked.  Thank you so much for your help.