Question:
My boss wants to use our Captivate files on his Web site.
How do you recommend publishing them for this purpose? .EXE files? combination of .SWF, .HTM, & .JS? Other?
Do you have a recommendation for how they should be placed in the web site file structure? If so, how?
Answer:
Great question. The key here is that your boss wants your published Captivate CBTs on his Web site. In that case, your best option is to publish as a SWF, which will result in four files (assuming you are using a Skin): Project SWF, Skin SWF, Project HTML file and a JavaScript file. All four files must be placed in a folder on your Web server and kept together.
For CBTs that I upload to my server, I created a single folder called, cleverly enough, CBTs. I upload all of the published Captivate files into that one folder (there is no need to segregate the CBTs into sub-folders).
Note: The JavaScript file will get created each time you publish. It’s okay to replace the file every time you upload the files to your Web server. You only need one copy of the JavaScript file for all of your CBTs to share.
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