Adobe Captivate
Adobe Captivate
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Ability to change the appearance of hotspots
Ability to change the appearance of hotspots' colours, shapes, and options for numbers and letters.
Thank you!
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Link javascript file to project
Include an option to link an external javascript file to a Captivate project. In Cp 12 in particular such a link would be good in the "Project properties" under PUBLISH SETTINGS. An external js file would allow a sophisticated use of moderrn JS within a project. It would also go along well with the concept of ADD JAVASCRIPT CODE TO THE PUBLISHED HTML AT RUNTIME, formulated on https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/captivate/help/javascript-interface-adobe-captivate.html.
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Button Disabled State is not working
If I select the Button and show states, it shows a 'disabled' state, though it is grayed out and not selectable. If I use any action to set the button to disabled - the 'Normal' state is shown, though the button is not selectable (it does not have a hand icon and does not react to clicking it).
Maybe I am not understanding how the disabled state works? Why can't I change the appearance, though there is a disabled 'state' when the button is set to disabled?
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Bug: Closed Captions Variable doesn't work
If you hide the closed captions by setting the variable $$Project.ClosedCaptions$$ to false, the closed captions can no longer be displayed even if you set the variable to true again. This means you cannot use your own button to hide and show the Closed Captions.
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More Question Slides, e. g. Crossword
Please more Question Slides, e. g. Crossword, Fill in the Blanks (Text), Select from Lists (Drop-Down), Drag the Words, Matrix
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Add Video demo workflow in Captivate
Video demo, cpvc file to add as project/slide background and publish as video are essential for our project.
Video demo, cpvc file to add as project/slide background and publish as video are essential for our project.Video demo to screen capture
cpvc file to embed in the project background or slide background.
Publish as video also required.
These two features are essentail for our project, Kindly add them.6 votesVideo demo is core to CP, its already in the backlog. thanks for reporting.
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{Bug} Random duplication of variables
I created 5 variables to test out the new variable system. I created these variables on a single slide and assigned them to buttons.
I then began programming advanced actions with the buttons on the same slide and I realized there was an entire list of duplicated variables all from the initial 5 that were created.
I did not duplicate the buttons on this slide, nor did I duplicate the slide itself.
- The variables couldnt be deleted until I saved the file and reopened it.
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Typewriter bugs
When applying an Entrance Typewriter animation on more than one text in a slide, and the texts are staggered on the timeline, only the first animation will appear. Sometimes it will only appear if the first text starts from the first frame. If you delete the animation on the first text, and keep it on the second text which appears later the animation never plays. It is a rather inconsistent bug, which I explored with multiple slides, Text Blocks and Media Blocks containing text components.
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Please include quizzes that
Please include the branch aware feature option for quizzes like in the Classic Captivate.
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Feature request: button status duplicable and preset savable
It would be great to duplicate save button status while changing buttons.
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Delete unused items
Deleting unused items keep the source files smaller and makes it efficient for the Captivate app to handle large projects. Please, bring back this useful feature from CP2019.
In the attached image, you will notice the significant difference between the file with unused items and without those items.6 votesThis feature is already available in 12.2 update. "Remove unused Items' option is available under File menu. Please try this & share your feedback. it will help us a lot. Thanks.
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Vimeo video and caption controls not available.
Embedded video from Vimeo using the video object has no controls. I'd rather not enforce the user to have to sit through the whole video again when returning to a slide to make a different choice. I'd also like them to have the option see the captions already uploaded and managed in Vimeo.
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brandon.wright@wolfspeed.com
Please allow the ability to have larger coverage area for photos.
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add Survey Question
Adding Survey Questions to record the User Feedback as per the Previous Captivate 2019
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[Captivate 13] Make widgets more useable, by treating them (and their components) as proper slide objects
Every Widget so far added to Captivate 13 has been a massive step back in terms of usability, customization and user-friendliness. It's like we traveled back in time to 15 years ago. Seriously, since 12.6+ Captivate felt like the worst way to do eLearning, everything is done in the worst, most obtuse way possible, and somehow we lost features that the software had since inception.
Right now, in Captivate 13, if you use a Widget, you're locked out of most actions/interactions/triggers that Captivate normally offers, because they are treated as entirely self-contained, separate feature. Objects within Widget do not qualify for any Slide triggers. Making using them a massive pain.
For example, take Hotspot widget - do you want to add some nice highlights or entrance animations to the Hotspot prompts? Can't do it. At best you can make them appear on timeline. But you can't highlight them for users so that they know they are a clickable item.
Within each Widget, you have exactly one single Trigger - Click/Tap and exactly a single Action - Play Media. Extremely limited. Media that is being played can also overlap with other audio if user clicks them fast enough, and you have no usual access to stop/pause timeline or stop media triggers.
Audio being played within each Hotspot overlay also doesn't have an option for its own captions/text to speech. Meaning you have to pre-record the audio somewhere else, on a blank slide, and then import it. I can go on.
Widgets, by virtue of being completely isolated from the rest of the slide structure, at the moment are immediately a very limiting experience. You lose so many features and capabilities in exchange for some basic animations. You can't do text-to-speech within them as they can only play pre-recorded audio, and that's the only interaction/action you get.
I am seriously going to petition our organization to roll back to Classic Captivate. Responsive Captivate (v12+) feels like a fever dream, where everything good from old Captivate versions has been stripped out, and replaced with frankenstein's monster of removed features, half-baked implementations, and terrible end-user and learner experience as a result.
I don't know, frankly, who in their right mind would chose the modern Captivate software over anything else on the market, unless you have no choice or say in the matter. In the end, this is all about the quality and speed of content you can create, and this modern Captivate is objectively one of the worst ways to create elearning right now. Yes its cheap, but you dont even get what you pay for - you get a barely functional piece of software.
Let's not even mention the constant crashing, the fact that the software still doesn't have auto-save feature in year 2025 and numerous bugs where you can never be sure what you see is what the end learner will see.
Every Widget so far added to Captivate 13 has been a massive step back in terms of usability, customization and user-friendliness. It's like we traveled back in time to 15 years ago. Seriously, since 12.6+ Captivate felt like the worst way to do eLearning, everything is done in the worst, most obtuse way possible, and somehow we lost features that the software had since inception.
Right now, in Captivate 13, if you use a Widget, you're locked out of most actions/interactions/triggers that Captivate normally offers, because they are treated as entirely self-contained, separate feature. Objects within Widget do not qualify…
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Allow us to change the color of a text hyperlink
In earlier updates I was able to manually change the color of clickable text links so that it matched my client's branding. It would be nice to have control over how these look, and it would be exceptional if the appearance of text hyperlinks was something we could add to the theme editor.
Not sure what changed, but now I have to explain to my clients that this functionality was somehow removed, and we have to deal with ugly purple links instead of sticking to our brand colors.
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Rename Text to Speech Audio Tracks
Would like to be able to give audio a custom name, both in the timeline and when exported. "Text to Audio1" not very helpful.
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Add speed adjustments to the AI voices
In other programs with AI voices, we can adjust the speed. The new voices are really good, but it would be nice to slow them down or speed them up depending on the need for a slide.
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Adding an Accessibility Checker
Having an integrated accessibility checker in the All New Adobe Captivate would be immensely beneficial for ensuring that content consistently meets accessibility standards. It would be nice receive actionable feedback based on key WCAG guidelines, allowing for the immediate identification of accessibility issues, similar to the features available in Adobe Acrobat, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint. If Adobe Captivate could implement this, it would be a game-changer, particularly in light of the new ADA Title II digital accessibility rule about to hit a lot of areas.
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In All New Captivate - Simulation created should publish as scalable. Currently not scalable or responsive.
With Captivate 12.5.0.35 Simulations created are not publishing scalable and are non responsive. Please make scalable publishing available (as in Classic).
5 votes
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