From the course: Adobe Captivate: Advanced Actions

Introducing advanced actions - Captivate Tutorial

From the course: Adobe Captivate: Advanced Actions

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Introducing advanced actions

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- [Instructor] Let's take a moment to discuss what exactly advanced actions are and how they can improve your Captivate prowess. You've probably used the simple actions in Captivate before. For instance, maybe you've created a button that takes a user to a certain slide when clicked. When you use simple actions, only one thing can happen and that would be, one of the actions such as go to the next slide, play audio, or show or hide something. Advanced actions allow you to string two or more simple actions together when an event occurs. One advantage of using advanced actions is that when the action is executed, the play head is not released. That means the project doesn't just continue on down the timeline and dump your user on the next slide. This means you have more control over how the timeline behaves. You control when advanced actions are triggered by attaching them to user-driven events. Examples would be when a user clicks a button, types something into a text entry box, or enters or exits a slide. There are three types of advanced actions in Captivate: standard, conditional, and shared. Standard actions allow you to execute multiple actions at a time. They're performed in a linear fashion from top to bottom. So for example, when the user clicks a button, make an image visible, make a piece of text visible as well, and play some audio. Conditional actions are if-then-else statements which allow learners to go down a different path depending on their decisions or conditions that exist. For an example from everyday life think if you've eaten all your dinner, then you can have dessert, else you need to eat five more bites first. As a practical example in eLearning, you could ask a user what role they play? Maybe manager or technician, and which department they work in and then in a single conditional action, determine what section of content they should be directed to. The third type of advanced action, a shared action, is derived from a standard or conditional action. The advantage is they can be saved and or used in the same project or across projects. They're powerful because they can help reduce redundancy in cases where you need to reuse the same advanced action over and over. We'll use all three of these types of advanced actions in this course.

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