Can you set a project wide time limit?

Hi there

There is nothing inside Captivate that will do it. But as I understand it, this is something you are able to configure within a Learning Management System (LMS).

Cheers... Rick

What do you want to happen when time limit is reached? Although I totally agree with Rick, that normally a LMS has the 'power' to set time limits and to act when time is over (messages), you could insert a learning interaction Timing or Hourglass, and have it execute a "Jump to" action after time expiration. If that jump to slide is the last slide and you turn off the playbar on entering that slide, the user will be 'trapped'. Sorry to sound bit rough.

It will start counting when it appears, put it where you want the countdown to start.

That variable has really no sense. First of all, you have to create it and it will just be toggled when time is over. I think it is just taken over from the former Timer widget (Timer widget... to stress your learners - Captivate blog) where it had sense, because it didn't have the same functionality of jumping to a slide when time was over. Beware: the timing is not very accurate, it will start with a delay of about 1 second if you put it on the first slide (display for rest of project), and when time is over the message (you cannot escape from it) will display for 2 seconds. Had planned to blog about Timing/Hourglass interactions, but have too many plans that I didn't realize.