Back Button
May 09, 2011
Does anyone know how to (if even possible) create a button that will take the user to the previous page viewed in their web browser's history? Here is the scenario.
The user comes to our website and has a list of Articulate courses to choose from... The user will click on the course they want to view first. Then on the last slide of the course. They will have a button in the center of the screen that, when clicked, will navigate them back to th page they were on before the Articulate course opened. We have used javascript in Captivate to accomplish this in previous courses we developed; however, I am not sure if this is even possible in Articulate.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Blake
8 Replies
should be able to do this with a flash object. i'll look into it and see.
Hi Blake,
I asked a similar question a while back here for a slightly different usage. In the end the solution I settled on was indeed a Flash object to call the JavaScript. I simply inserted the button created in Flash into the final slide of the Articulate presentation as a swf.
I am no coder (by a long shot!) but the various online tutorials available taught me enough to be able to create a simple 3 layer button and tie the "onrelease" action script to the JavaScript call I needed.
Note: Just remember to put the actual JavaScript in the head of your html launch page doc!
Note 2: If you have the newer versions of Flash like CS5, remember to code/publish in AS2 to ensure compatibility; not AS3.
Quick back button. You can edit the look of the button as it's just a big grey rectangle right now for testing. ActionScript is AS2. Just a basic javacript history.back() call. Place on last slide of your course after republish as swf.
hth
Dwayne, That's great, not much use for me but great all the same
thanks for sharing
Phil
I think that is what Black wanted, just a back button to go back to the previous webpage from the last slide of the presentation. Maybe i missed something.
Dwayne,
That is exactly what I wanted... I am going to test it right now... Thanks so much for your help with it.
Blake
I think its great, and will file it away, you never know when it might come
Phil
I just finished testing it out Dwayne... It works perfectly... I really appreciate it. Thanks again!
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