You can use map icons to group a sequence of icons. By grouping icons in map icons, you can organize your piece into convenient modules. This gives you a clear overview of how the piece will work, no matter how many icons it contains. Place map icons anywhere on the flowline and attach them to interaction icons, decision icons, or framework icons. You can place map icons within other map icons.
Each map icon has its own flowline. Double-click a map icon to open it. A level caption appears in the upper right corner.
When Authorware encounters a map icon, it executes the map's icons in the order in which they appear on the flowline. When it finishes executing the last icon, Authorware exits the map icon and executes the next icon on the main flowline.
If the map icon is attached to an interaction icon, Authorware executes the entire contents of the map icon before branching to the next result icon. Authorware also executes the entire contents of the map icon when it is a path attached to a decision icon or pages attached to a framework icon.
To group icons into a map icon, the icons must be next to one another on the flowline. To create a map icon, select the icons, select Modify > Group, and name the resulting map icon. To redisplay (or ungroup) the icons in a map icon, select the map icon and select Modify > Ungroup.
If you attach a calculation icon to a map icon and then ungroup the map icon later, Authorware attaches the calculation icon to the first icon that was within the group.
You can set additional properties for the calculation icon in the Property inspector.
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