From the course: Captivate 9: Drag-and-Drop Interactions

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Executing advanced actions with drag-and-drop interactions

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From the course: Captivate 9: Drag-and-Drop Interactions

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Executing advanced actions with drag-and-drop interactions

- In this exercise we will learn how to run an Advanced Action on the drop of each draggable to show a description of the related term. We are in the Advanced Actions_Start project. You can open it from the Exercise Files folder, under Chapter 09 folder. In this project, I have added four terms on the left. And on the right, there's an empty shape. On top of this shape, there are four text captions for the description for each term. Let's select all the description captions and make them invisible in the output. So that they are not visible upfront, and we can trigger the visibility of the caption based on the drag action. To do so, let's go to the Timeline. Let's make it a little taller to see all the objects. Shift-select D1, D2, D3 and D4 captions. Go to the Properties Inspector and turn off the Visibility. Let's also group these captions. With these four captions selected, right-click and select Group. Name the group as All_Descriptions. Now, let's write the Advanced Actions…

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