are having fits linking one Captivate project to another.
accomplished in more than one way (via a button, click box or end of project
settings), the broken link problem won't present itself during the testing
phase.
the links, many developers report that they are greeted with a less than
friendly "Page Cannot Be Displayed" message. Why? More often than not, the
culprit behind the broken links is one of the following:
- Published files go to different folders. The source project
and external projects must be published to the same root folder. (External
projects, also known as targets, are those projects being
linked to.)For example, if you link Project1 to Project2, Project1 is
the source and Project2 is the target. You
will need to publish both projects into the same folder.However, what
typically happens during the publish phase of development is that Captivate
projects are published into individual folders. In that case, clicking a link to
the target from within source will not work. Why? The link inside the source
won't be able to drill into the folder containing the target.The
solution: Publish both source and target projects into the same
folder. - The Project Titles are wrong. When creating the link to an
external project, the published file name of the external project MUST be the
same as as the one used in the source project. While this sounds like a simple
thing to keep straight, every time you save a Captivate project with a new name,
the name that appears in the Project Title area changes too.Here's the
scenario: I wanted to create a link in Project1 that
automatically opens an external project called
Project2.Here's how I did it:
I opened Project1
and chose Edit > Preferences.On the Start
and End category, Project end options
drop-down menu, I selected Open other project and then selected
Project2.
After that, I published the source
project.All I needed to do now was publish any and all target projects
and do a little testing.I opened the target project
(Project2) and saved it with the name
Project2_v2. (I tend to save my projects with updated names
throughout the development process.)I knew I needed to publish the
project with the Project Title Project2 because that's the name
I used back in the source project.Upon clicking the
Publish button, the Project Title changed to
Project2_v2. Dohhhhh! If left alone, the link back in Project1
(that will be looking for a published file called Project2) will fail during
testing.
I changed the Project Title to Project2
and published. During the testing process, the links between the projects worked
as expect.
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