From the course: Adobe Captivate: Advanced Actions
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Reducing redundancy with shared actions - Captivate Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Captivate: Advanced Actions
Reducing redundancy with shared actions
- [Instructor] Writing multiple advanced actions that do similar things can be redundant and time consuming. Happily, there's a better way, and here's an example. So in this project, on the first slide, the user can choose between two characters. If you click on the character on the left, you can see a variable called which character is set to the value of Mark. Likewise, if you click the character on the right, the variable called which character is set to the value of Claire. So now on slide two, images of both Claire and Mark appear, and notice that the image of Claire has been assigned the name Claire Slide two. It's also not visible in output. The image of Mark, similarly, has been assigned the name of Mark slide two, and it's also not visible in output. So clicking off to the side of the slide in order to look at the properties for the slide, the on interaction has been set to execute advanced actions, and we're…
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