start and end of a project

[mathijssen]

I use Captivate 9. I had a project, made for teachers, and I wanted to end the project at a certain date.  In 'Project info' I put the date to end the project, after which should appear: "the project has expired'. But after that date I did not get a response from the teachers to tell me the project had expired. They just continued with the project without problems!

Is it possible that in some forms of publishing a Captivate project this marking of an end date does not work, possibly, has disappeared totally? If so, which method of publishing has the best results?

[RodWard]

Are you talking about the Project: Start and End > Project Expiry Date field?

[mathijssen]

Yes, indeed!

[RodWard]

Did you use the Calendar control to select a date that appeared in the upper field, or did you just enter the date in the explanatory field underneath?

If you are quite sure you have entered the date correctly, do some more testing on your own system to verify the expiry date functionality does not work and then log a bug with Adobe if you confirm it.

[mathijssen]

I used the Calendar control to set the expiration time.

I will test, as you suggested, to verify the expiry date functionality.

Thanks

[mathijssen]

As you suggested, I have tested the possible options:

• Exporting as a movie - the expiry date function did not work.

• Exporting as html5 - the expiry date function did its job.

• Exporting as executable - the expiry date function also did its job.

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

To my own knowledge, there would be no way to force an expiration if you are simply creating a video output.

In addition to no expiration, there is also no interaction available in this format. Things such as playback pausing until you click a button or other object or quizzing. All you end up with is a file suitable for uploading to YouTube or Vimeo or other such delivery service.

Cheers... Rick