- Captivate User Guide
- Introduction to Captivate
- Add a slide
- Design options in Adobe Captivate
- Add text blocks
- Add media blocks
- Interactive components
- Add branding blocks
- Widgets
- Create quizzes
- Add audio to a project
- Animations
- Accessibility
- Customize the timeline
- Customize TOC and Playbar
- Edit project properties
- Create a simulation project
- Preview a project
- Share a project for review
- Publish a project
- Upgrade projects in Adobe Captivate
Learn how to add interactions to slides or objects in an Adobe Captivate project.
Interactions
Interactions in the all-new Adobe Captivate make your projects more engaging and interesting.
Adobe Captivate provides a user-friendly interface that enables you to design interactions effortlessly.
Topics in this article:
What is an interaction
In the all-new Adobe Captivate, an interaction typically involves three key components- triggers, conditions, and actions.
- Triggers: An interaction starts with a trigger. Triggers define what actions need to be executed based on certain events. You can set actions to triggers like click, double-click, hover, slide enter, slide exit, bookmarks, and many more.
- Conditions: Using conditions, you can create certain checks or rules, which get validated before executing certain actions. Conditions are optional when creating an interaction.
- Actions: Actions are tasks that get executed on a trigger. Adobe Captivate provides various actions, like displaying or hiding objects, playing audio, launching a URL, executing JavaScript, etc. For more details, view the table of actions.
Types of interactions
The all-new Adobe Captivate supports:
Slide-level interaction: You can add slide-level interactions to individual slides in your course. The following triggers are available at a slide level:
- Objects:
- Custom states viewed: A set of actions occur when a learner views selected custom states.
- Objects clicked: A set of actions occur when a learner clicks on some pre-defined objects.
- Custom states viewed: A set of actions occur when a learner views selected custom states.
- Timeline:
- Slide enter: A set of actions occur when a learner enters a slide.
- Slide exit: A set of actions occur when a learner exits a slide.
- Bookmark: A set of actions occur when a learner reaches a bookmark. For more information, view Using bookmarks and overlays in an interactive video.
For more information on slide-level interactions, view Create slide-level interactions.
Object-level interaction: Object-level interactions are interactions you can add to an object on a slide.
The following triggers are available at an object level:
- Click/Tap
- Double-click
- Hover
- Right-click
- Mouse out
For more information on object-level interactions, view Create object-level interactions.
List of actions in Adobe Captivate
Captivate supports If-Else or While for creating interactions with the following conditions:
- Reorder down: Move an action down.
- Reorder up: Move an action up.
- Paste: Paste an action.
- Copy: Copy an action.
- Duplicate: Duplicate an action.
- Delete: Delete an action.
- Merge: Join multiple actions. For example, when you join two actions, both actions execute simultaneously.
Actions are executed in the order they appear in the panel.
- Split: Split the merged actions.
If an action is incomplete, Captivate indicates the same on the action card with a warning sign.
To resolve the incomplete action, click the action card, and add the required input.
Delete an interaction
After you've created an interaction, here's how you'll delete it.
- Select an interaction.
- When you hover over the interaction, a three-dot icon appears at the right of the interaction. Select the ellipsis icon to launch the menu.
- Select Delete.
Alternatively, select the interaction, and select Delete on the Action card.