Transitioning from Captivate

Feb 01, 2018

I haven't used Storyline in a few years and my first 360 project has landed on my plate. While there are a lot of reasons I am excited to get back to Storyline, I can't help but miss the Captivate feature of showing an object (or playing audio) across multiple slides or for "the rest of project." I am a little disapointed to see this feature is still missing in 360. Does anyone have any work arounds that they use?

Here's an example. We are doing 15 languages of our project so we will make custom Closed Captions by using States and variables to call the correct states. If someone wants to "turn off the closed captions", we would prefer to just cover them (and not change my variables). If this was captivate, I would make an object on the first slide, set it to "show for rest of slide" and then turn on and off it's visibility with a button. Simple. One button, one code, one object.

Is there a simple way to do something similar in AS that I have missed? Thanks for your help.

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Jesica Garrou

Boo hoo. I don't think the closed captioning works for us because we have to have it in many languages. But there are other similar places we would use it. For example, we want to put "Breadcrumbs" across the top. In Captivate, I would put them on the first slide, show for project, and then forget about it. In Storyline, I have to put copy that object on every slide? Meaning if I change one, I change all? I really had hoped there was a solution for this by now. Oh well.

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