Creating an Interaction Area or Attention Area (SAP Library

Creating an Interaction Area or Attention Area

Use

You can create two types of areas:

Interaction areas show the tutorial user where to perform an interaction when playing the tutorial. They appear in the Editor as a frame with shaded contents.

Attention areas direct the tutorial user’s attention to the area of interest in the simulated application. They appear in the Editor as an empty frame.

You can create interaction areas and attention areas after the tutorial has been recorded. This may be necessary for two reasons:

An area was not recorded or was not recorded correctly. If necessary, change the incorrect area or create it again.
Several entries are possible or required on one screen of the application. You did not make all the entries during recording, but want to show them to the tutorial user in the tutorial.

Procedure

Select the step for which you want to create an area.

Note

You can delete areas by placing your cursor on the area and choosing Delete Area in the context menu.

In the context menu, choose Draw Interaction Area or Draw Attention Area.

Position the cursor at the desired location in the screenshot and drag the mouse holding the left mouse button down. Release the mouse button when the frame has the desired size. The area is created.

The SAP Tutor: Step Editor screen appears.

When you have drawn a new interaction area, the SAP Tutor: Step Editor screen is displayed. For more information, see Adding Further Details About a Step and Adding Further Details About an Interaction Area.

If you created an additional interaction area, a multi-interaction step with subordinate interactions is automatically created in the Tasks and Steps window. The newly created interaction initially has the name "Copy of <Name of the copied step>". You can change this name in the Step Editor window. For more information, see Adding Further Details About a Step.

To change the color or frame width of an area, select Frame Color or Frame Width in the area’s context menu.

Note

You can also define these settings for the entire tutorial. To do so, choose Settings ® Area Settings.

If you set the value for the frame width of an interaction area to 0, the interaction area cannot be seen in the Player but is still functional.

Do not use the same color for attention areas and interaction areas as this will cause confusion.