Slide X of Y

May 13, 2012

Is there a way to use variables to show a caption with slide X of Y?  I tried using a counter variable but that gets messy when the Learner starts jumping around in a non-linear fashion.

Thx,

Jim Leichliter

2 Replies
Tracy Parish

Hey Jim

I think this may help. http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/building-a-simple-counter.aspx

Create a counter as you were doing adding one to variable 'pageX' (or whatever you name it). Then when you want to display it show it as a text box %pageX% of 15 ( or whatever Y turns out to be or is counted to be). 

Jim Leichliter

Thanks Tracy.  Is there a built-in variable that can tell you what slide number you're on?  I'm coming from a Captivate background and it has a system variable call cpInfoCurrentSlide that's basically a slide index.  The counter method is problematic because if you have a non-linear course, the Learner can jump to a slide and the counter number is off.

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