Increasing the length of a variable to >50 characters

[NSteng2015]

Hi,

I'm developing some training where I'd like users to enter some comments, maybe give them up to 100 characters, and then allow them to review there comments against a sample. I would like to use a text entry box to capture the user's text, store it in a variable, and then display it on the next page. The trouble is that when the variable displays in a text box on the next page, the text is truncated.

I am aware of the menu for variables where you can specify a length, but whenever I do this, the value I select is not implemented.

Any help?

Nate

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

The only way I know is to change the length of the inserted variable, which can be done only when you insert the variable with the X button in the Character part of the Properties panel of the text container:

[paula.obrien]

This solution solved the issue for me in Captivate 2017. Thank you!

[RodWard]

Can you please show screenshots of your issue?

In current Captivate versions you can only set the length of characters up to a maximum of 150.

Have you made sure that the text container in which the variable is displayed is indeed large enough to accommodate the number of characters you have specified?

[NSteng2015]

Rod,

I worked on this again, it does seem that 150 characters are showing now. I felt I was able to get longer passages to show in a variable in the past, but I guess I was wrong. 150 is the maximum for now? Thanks for your help.

Nate

[RodWard]

In earlier versions of Captivate you could display up to 250 characters or so.  But since Cp8 this has been reduced.  Not sure why Adobe chose to do that.