I have created various Tabs and on each Tab I have various bullet points. I want to put hyperlink on each point to open a PDF/Word/etc file in a new window from the same folder where Engage source file is located. I am able to put hyperlinks but it tries to open with http:// but I want it to open a file from the same folder.
Hi Muhammad - glad to hear you're all set now with the hyperlinked document!
Regarding two images per Tab... although Engage only supports one image for each tab in your interaction, what a lot of people do is use an image-editing program (or PowerPoint) to create a composite image of multiple pictures. And then you can add that as your image in Engage. If you don't have an image-editing tool, here's how you can use PowerPoint for this purpose:
Insert both your pictures on an empty PowerPoint slide, and position them the way you want them to appear.
Take a screenshot of the 2 images, OR: select both images and group them, then right-click the group and choose Save As Picture.
Take the resulting image file and insert that into Engage.
It is called "work-around". I am good at PowerPoint and other image-editing tools but thank you so much for pointing me out to this Work-around - I think it will work just fine.
I am working on my project and I'll love to get back to here in case of any questions I might have.
Sorry to bother you again Jeanette but I have another question:
Can I create a Tab within the Tab?. If this is not possible in Engage, perhaps we can create bookmark within the Tab?
Let me explain you:
I have one Tab on which I have listed bullet points. Now I want to place links on the bullet points to open up related material in a new Tab BUT I do not want that new Tab to be listed on my sidebar.
So you want the links on your bullet points to open up a completely different Tabs Interaction? If so, you could just publish that interaction separately, upload it to wherever you plan to host it, and then link to the engage.html file from your other Tabs Interactions' bullet point. Would that give you what you need?
Engage wasn't really designed to do complex branching. Have you considered doing this in Presenter instead of Engage. Presenter can handle all of the things you are trying to do much more elegantly and I think it would probably be a better user experience.
Regarding publishing for CD, do you have the option to host this online? The reason that I ask is hyperlinks only work offline if you publish for CD and the person launches the presentation or interaction via the EXE file in the published output. If for some reason they don't do that, like the CD doesn't auto launch, then the hyperlinks won't work.
So I would personally recommend, if possible, consider using Presenter to do all of the branching from one topic to another topic and host your content online.
If you were to hyperlink from one Engage interaction to another on a CD, you can do it, but the Engage interaction that was opened in a new window would not be able to have clickable hyperlinks since modern computers would perceive that interaction as a potential security risk.
Thanks for your advise. I am new to Articulate, so I thought Engage would work for me but certainly I'll give a try to Presenter as well.
We will also host it on our Intranet but I think we need it on the CD for archiving purposes. I understand your point that user has to launch EXE file if auto run does not work for some reasons. As long as hyperlinks works by running EXE, I think we would be fine with it.
I'll explore Presenter and will see if that works for me.
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Hello Muhammad, and welcome to Heroes!
If your Engage interaction is standalone (i.e., if it's not part of a course), you could use this approach.
If your Engage interaction is embedded into a course you've built with Presenter, you could use this approach.
Hope that helps!
Thank you very much Jeanette!
I am working on standalone and the link you sent has solved my problem. Now I can move forward.
One more thing - is there a way i can insert two images on one Tab?, for instance I want to insert two logos on bottom of my first Tab.
Again, thank you so much for your help.
Khalil
Hi Muhammad - glad to hear you're all set now with the hyperlinked document!
Regarding two images per Tab... although Engage only supports one image for each tab in your interaction, what a lot of people do is use an image-editing program (or PowerPoint) to create a composite image of multiple pictures. And then you can add that as your image in Engage. If you don't have an image-editing tool, here's how you can use PowerPoint for this purpose:
Great, many thanks!
It is called "work-around". I am good at PowerPoint and other image-editing tools but thank you so much for pointing me out to this Work-around - I think it will work just fine.
I am working on my project and I'll love to get back to here in case of any questions I might have.
Many thanks for your help!
Sorry to bother you again Jeanette but I have another question:
Can I create a Tab within the Tab?. If this is not possible in Engage, perhaps we can create bookmark within the Tab?
Let me explain you:
I have one Tab on which I have listed bullet points. Now I want to place links on the bullet points to open up related material in a new Tab BUT I do not want that new Tab to be listed on my sidebar.
Thanks for any help with this!
So you want the links on your bullet points to open up a completely different Tabs Interaction? If so, you could just publish that interaction separately, upload it to wherever you plan to host it, and then link to the engage.html file from your other Tabs Interactions' bullet point. Would that give you what you need?
Actually we need to put this entire project on a CD/DVD - we are basically doing archiving for our projects, so we are making one CD/DVD per project.
You mean I should create another engage interaction and then I link to engage.html file ?
Do you think bookmarking within the same Tab would help better ? I do think so if there is option to put bookmark on links within the Tab.
Engage wasn't really designed to do complex branching. Have you considered doing this in Presenter instead of Engage. Presenter can handle all of the things you are trying to do much more elegantly and I think it would probably be a better user experience.
Regarding publishing for CD, do you have the option to host this online? The reason that I ask is hyperlinks only work offline if you publish for CD and the person launches the presentation or interaction via the EXE file in the published output. If for some reason they don't do that, like the CD doesn't auto launch, then the hyperlinks won't work.
So I would personally recommend, if possible, consider using Presenter to do all of the branching from one topic to another topic and host your content online.
If you were to hyperlink from one Engage interaction to another on a CD, you can do it, but the Engage interaction that was opened in a new window would not be able to have clickable hyperlinks since modern computers would perceive that interaction as a potential security risk.
Thanks for your advise. I am new to Articulate, so I thought Engage would work for me but certainly I'll give a try to Presenter as well.
We will also host it on our Intranet but I think we need it on the CD for archiving purposes. I understand your point that user has to launch EXE file if auto run does not work for some reasons. As long as hyperlinks works by running EXE, I think we would be fine with it.
I'll explore Presenter and will see if that works for me.
Many thanks for your help!
Great! And just so you know, if you host your content on an intranet then you would have no problem with hyperlinks since that is considered secure.
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