Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 1: Introduction

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Cleaning up Adobe Captivate 5.5's SCORM Publishing Template

In this multi-part series, I will walk through the files Captivate outputs when publishing to SCORM 2004, pointing out the bad parts and suggesting alternatives when needed. At the end of the series, I will provide a fully-functional SCORM 2004 publishing template you can use with Captivate 5.5.

Adobe Captivate: What the heck is g_intAPIType?

If you spend any time using Captivate to create SCORM-conformant courses, you’re bound to have run into an issue or two that caused you to read some Captivate forum posts. Almost without fail, someone will mention that the solution to their problem was changing the value of the magical g_intAPIType JavaScript variable from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1.

So what the heck is g_intAPIType, and why does changing it make a difference?