How to create user-defined variables in Adobe Captivate

Click Project > Variables. The Variables dialog-box displays.

To add a variable, click Add New, and enter the variable information in the Name, Value, and Description fields.

• Name: Specify a unique name for the variable. Ensure that the name is intuitive enough to help users guess its content. For example, a variable storing the version number of a product would have the name ProductVersion or VersionNumber.
• Value: Specify a value for the variable. The value that you specify occurs at all instances of occurrence of the variable in the document. You can also choose to set the value later by leaving this field blank. Variables with undefined values appear as blank spaces in the project.
• Description: Optionally, add a description for the variable. For example, you could add a note for the authors instructing them about when to use the variable.

To save the changes, click Save.

In the Captivate project, insert a button, a text entry box and a text caption, as shown below:

In the text entry box, you insert the variable you had created, as shown below:

With the cursor after the “:”, click [X] in the Property Inspector, as shown below:

Also, make the text caption hidden.

After you click Insert Variable or [X], in the Insert Variable dialog, click the Variables drop-down list, and choose the variable you created.

After you insert the variable, the variable name gets enclosed within $$...$$, as shown below:

Some of the variable names are reserved by ActionScript. Do not use the following variable names when creating your variable: