I was looking for that option in the final release, but could not find it. Well, the Share option is no longer there, but all the functionality is under Save & Send.

It took me a while to figure that out, so I thought I might share it with you.

It restores the classic menu structure of Office 2007 on top of the Office 2007 ribbon.

In the meantime, I got used to the ribbon navigation, it really has advantages, but sometimes it would be nice to have the previous menus if you can’t find a certain functionality you don’t use very often. Microsoft also offers the interactive command references to help you out.

The tool is free for personal use.

There are a couple of reasons why this can probably become an issue and will require extra training for your end users:

• a lot of companies are still running Office 2003, and will probably hold on upgrading until Office 2010 is available. These people have never seen the ribbon before!
• the ribbon is “security trimmed”, but where in MOSS 2007 any option that you did not have access to was hidden, it is grayed out in SP 2010. This gives some very strange results if you only have read access: you get a ribbon full of disabled buttons.
• Some functions are less accessible than befor, e.g. the content types. It requires some extra clicks to get where you want.

Definitely something to consider when you start planning your end user training!

• You watch the keynote from your desk on http://www.mssharepointconference.com.
• You follow the twitter stream. Hash tag: #SPC09.
• You watch the live stream of Endusersharepoint.com.

We are getting pretty close to Minority Report. More info on http://10gui.com. Thanks to Gert for the tip.

The video below shows that what is simple, is not always obvious!

The mission

The purpose is to test an Adobe Captivate 4 SCORM package (SCORM 1.2) with the ADL Test Suite 1.2.7, and prove it is fully SCORM compliant.

The issues

When you load the scorm package in the ADL Test Suite and you run the Content Package Conformance Test, there are two issues:

1. the metadata test passes successfully, but when you need to launch the SCO, the Captivate content does not load. IE shows a script error:
   Error: ‘document.getElementById(…)’ is null or not an object
2. if you get the first issue fixed, the SCO launches but test fails with at least one of the following messages:
    ERROR:   LMS Not initialized
    ERROR:   SCO invoked API calls out of order
    ERROR:   LMS not initialized
    ERROR:   Invalid LMSFinish() call
    ERROR:   SCO invoked API calls out of order

The solutions

It took me quite some surfing to find the following solutions:

• The ADL 1.2.7 test suite software is already quite old, and a lot of forum posts suggested that you needed to use the correct Java RTE, older browsers… I tried all that, but it never helped me. I now have the test suite running on a Windows 7 64 bit (!) , with the latest Java RTE (Version 6 update 15, build 1.6.0_15-b03), and IE 8. So don’t spend your time on this.
• And now for fix number one: to make sure that your SCO gets launched in the test suite, you need to edit the html file that is generated by Captivate when publishing your content (the .html that has the same name as your project .swf). Open the file with a text editor (Notepad), on the second line you will find <!– saved from url=(0013)about:internet –>. Delete that line.
  Restart your test, and your SCO will now launch. But you will get errors in your test now.
• Fix number two: change the security settings of the Flash player on your machine.
  • Get some Flash content playing in your browser. Any Flash animation will do. Go e.g. to www.adobe.com.
  • Right-click on the animation, you will get the Flash context menu. Select Settings.
  • You will get a little menu like this:
    
  • Click the Advanced button. This will bring you to an Adobe Web site.
  • In the table of contents on the left, click Global Security Settings Panel. This will show you a panel like this:
    
  • Add the location where your ADL TestSuite software is installed to the trusted locations. The location of the TEST SUITE software, not the location of your zip file or your content files. Those get copied automatically to a TestSuite subfolder when you run the test.
  • Close all your browser windows and re-run the test.

Explanation and credits

There is probably a very good explanation why you need to do all this, but I am not able to give it to you. I’m just summarizing some steps I found in various forum posts. So kudos go to these forum members:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/212606

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440917

Bottom line?

A lot of forum posters are yelling that Captivate content does not pass the SCORM test. Before I ran my package through the Test Suite, I tried importing it in three different LMS’s, and it worked in all three! So failing the ADL Test has more to do with the way the Test Suite runs local content than with Captivate content not being SCORM compliant.

It’s actually quite easy: download the Java Client, install it on your phone, configure username, password and server name, and… off you go!

The client has limited functionality, but just enough: you get a tab with all your contacts, one with the online contacts only (see below), one with the conversations and one with the groups.