# Adding text entry boxes

Text entry boxes let you increase Captivate project interaction quickly and easily. For example, you can use text entry boxes to ask simple quiz questions or to password-protect a movie.

#### To add a text entry box:

1. Open a Captivate project.

2. Double-click on the slide to which you want to add a click box.

3. From the Insert menu, select Text Entry Box.

The Text Entry Box dialog box appears.

4. Click the Text Entry Box tab. This tab allows you to determine how the movie responds to user interaction. The options are divided into two basic categories: what happens when the user enters text correctly and what happens when a user enters text incorrectly in the text entry box.

If the user enters the text correctly

Correct Entries: Enter the correct text here. You can enter multiple correct answers.

Font: Opens the Font dialog box, which lets you set font, font styles, font size, and font effects for the text.

Add: Opens a new entry box in which you can enter another correct entry.

Delete: Removes the selected entry from the list.

On success: Specify what should happen after a user enters the correct text in the text entry box. You can select Continue, Go to previous slide, Go to next slide, Jump to slide, Open URL or file, Open other movie, Send e-mail to, Execute JavaScript, or No Action.

Continue: Depending upon the type of action you selected above, this box changes to let you enter destination information.

If the user enters the text incorrectly

Allow user [#] attempts: Click the arrows to select the number of attempts a user can make before another action takes place.

Infinite attempts: Select this option to give users an unlimited number of attempts.

After last attempt: Specify what you want to happen after the last attempt. You can select Continue, Go to previous slide, Go to next slide, Jump to slide, Open URL or file, Open other movie, Send e-mail to, Execute JavaScript, or No Action.

Continue: Depending upon the type of action you selected above, this box changes to let you enter destination information.

Set shortcut key

Click this button to choose a key combination for users to press when submitting responses. The current shortcut is displayed to the left of the button.

5. Select the Options tab. This tab provides you with many ways to customize your text entry box. Select from the following options:

   ### Timing

   Display time [#] seconds: Specify the total number of seconds the text entry box should appear.

   Appear after [#] seconds: Specify the number of seconds that should pass before the text entry box appears on the slide.

   ### Transition

   Effect: Click on the pop-up menu and select a transition effect for the text entry box. Select a fade in or fade out option, or select No transition.

   Apply effect to all text entry boxes in the movie: Select this option to apply the changes you made on this tab to all the text entry boxes in the project.

   ### Appearance

   Transparency: This is the degree of transparency for the text entry box. Select a value from 0% to 100%. A value of 10% is less transparent (more solid) than a value of 90%.

   Note: The transparency effect does not appear when you view the text entry box in Edit view. To test the transparency effect, press F6 to preview the slide.

   ### Options

   Hint caption: Select this option to include a hint caption. (The hint caption appears when users move the mouse over the text entry box.)

   Success caption: Select this option to include a success caption (for example, Congratulations!).

   Failure caption: Select this option to include a failure caption (for example, Sorry, please try again).

   Show button: Select this option to display a button with text such as ENTER or COMPLETE. (To add or edit button text, view the slide in Edit view and double-click the button to open the Button dialog box.)

   Show text box frame: Select this option if you want the text entry box frame to be visible to users. If you do not select this option, only the text is displayed.

   Password: Select this option if you want to mimic a password field.

   Case-sensitive: Select this option to make the text entry box case-sensitive. This means that users must provide answers with the correct combination of lowercase and uppercase letters.

   Show for the entire slide: Select this option to have the text entry box appear for the entire amount of time that the slide appears.

6. If you want to add audio
   to the text entry box, click the Audio tab.

7. If you want to keep score for the text entry box or coordinate the score with a learning management system, click the Scoring tab. Select from the following options:

   - Keep score: This option keeps a quiz score.

   - Weighting: Weighting signifies the relative importance of a text entry box question. You can enter any numeric value (without decimals). If all questions have the same value ("1", for example), they are scored equally. If you want to set different values for different questions, keep in mind that weights are relative to each other. So, a question assigned a weight of "2" has a value twice as high as a question with a weight of "1." You can use this feature to give introductory questions a lower value and advanced questions a higher value.

   - Objective ID: This is an optional parameter. If the text entry box question is related to an objective set in your learning management system, enter the objective here.

   - Interaction ID: If you want the Captivate movie to send tracking information to your learning management system, you must use the interaction ID specified by your learning management system.

8. Click OK.

A text entry box appears on the slide.

9. Size and drag the text entry box as desired.

10. If you selected the Success, Failure, or Hint caption options, double-click the text boxes to edit the text.