I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: Adobe Captivate Keyboard Shortcuts
speed up production with captivate shortcuts
Blog posts
Setting up Preferences in Adobe Captivate | Infosemantics Pty Ltd
Lots of troubleshooting tips here with explanations of how to use the preferences.
Editing Motion Paths and Reusing Customized Effects - Captivate blog
This is an old post, but it still works in Captivate 8. Edit the points of a motion path. You can save this as a custom effect. Once you apply that effect to an object, it will appear in your custom menu and you can call it with an Advanced Action.
Creating a Slider in Captivate 8 – An Experiment
Create a slider with rollovers and advanced actions in Cp8, similar to the Storyline 2 slider. Also includes the failed first attempt and explains why it didn't quite work as desired. Purchasing the Infosemantics slider component widget would be faster, but it's nice to see how it would be possible.
I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: Adobe Captivate: Troubleshooting LMS Woes
Tips for troubleshooting Captivate with an LMS
Make Captivate HTML5 Work in Firefox
When Captivate publishes HTML5, it doesn't work in Firefox. Captivate exports only MP3 audio, and Firefox only plays OGGs. This post provides some tweaks for the Javascript to get rid of the error message and look for OGG versions of the file when needed. You have to create both versions of the audio files.
How to remove browser warning message in HTML 5... | Adobe Community
Suggestions on how to remove the browser warning message in Firefox for Captivate HTML5
Replay (slide) Button - Captivate blog
Two methods for creating replay buttons in Captivate. I have needed this before and never come up with as elegant a solution as Lieve offers here.
CpExtra Online Help | Infosemantics Pty Ltd
Documentation for the CpExtra widget that provides additional variables and options for HTML5 Captivate courses
What's in a Theme - a Template? - Captivate blog
Differences between themes and templates in Captivate. I might also use templates if multiple people are working on the same project and you need some consistent layouts or slides between them.
The goal of a Captivate <b>theme</b> is to keep a consistent design throughout your project. It can be 'applied' to any project, even <b><u>after</u></b> creation.
A <b>template</b> in Captivate has to be chosen <b><u>before</u></b><u></u> you create a project.
The term is often wrongly used: most Captivate 'templates' that you can find on the web, are just cptx-projects, not templates in the Captivate language.
When would I use a template in Captivate 9? For courses that have several modules, where you want to have some slides in common, maybe have custom navigation/control buttons that cannot be put on the master slide, but need to be timed for the rest of the project. I would rarely use it to have placeholder slides, unless some team members need to have that assistance.