Bookmarking a Course when using Firefox

Hi Touvio,

Some of the latest releases of browsers do not support bookmarking via JavaScript (including Chrome).  I was not able to determine if Firefox 6 is in that category.  However, I was able to rewrite the bookmark script to enable compatibility with just about every browser.

In the player folder of your published output, you'll see a flashcommand.js file.  Open that in your favorite text editor & replace the "function CreateBookmark" with the following:

[quote]

function CreateBookmark(args, bSlide)

{

var one = 1;

if (one=1)

{

var nSlideNum = args.substring(0,args.indexOf("|"));

var strTitle = args.substring((args.indexOf("|")+1),args.length);

var _proto = document.location.protocol;

var _host = document.location.host;

var _pathname = document.location.pathname;

var _search = document.location.search;

var newpath  = "";

var newUrl  = "";

var nPos = 0;

var worked = false;

var alerted = false;

var alerttext = 'Please Control + D to bookmark';

nPos = _pathname.lastIndexOf("/");

if (nPos

{

nPos = _pathname.lastIndexOf("\\"); 

}

if ( nPos

{    

// if / is not the last char grab the trailing "/"

nPos++;

}

if (_search.indexOf("akpDocumentID",0)

{

newpath = _pathname.substr(0, nPos) + "player.html";

newUrl = _proto + "//" + _host + newpath +"?slide=" + nSlideNum;

} 

else 

{

did = _search.substring((_search.lastIndexOf("akpDocumentID") + ("akpDocumentID").length+1), _search.length);

newpath = "/Portal/Storage/DownloadDocument.aspx?DocumentID=" + did;

newUrl = _proto+"//"+ _host + newpath + "?slide="+ nSlideNum;

}

if (bSlide)

{

strTitle = strTitle + " - Powered by Articulate ";

}

else

{

strTitle = strTitle + " Slide "+ nSlideNum +" - Powered by Articulate ";

}

try

{

window.sidebar.addPanel(strTitle, newUrl,"");

worked = true;

}

catch(err){if(!worked && !alerted){alert(alerttext);alerted=true;}}

try

{

window.external.AddFavorite(newUrl, strTitle);

worked = true;

}

catch(err){if(!worked && !alerted){alert(alerttext);alerted=true;}}

try

{

window.external.AddFavorite(strTitle, newUrl,"");

worked = true;

}

catch(err){if(!worked && !alerted){alert(alerttext);alerted=true;}}

}

}

[/quote]

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I've also attached the updated flashcommand.js file for your reference.

Please note that this workaround is not supported by Articulate.

Hi Touvio,

Just a heads up, the workaround that I provided might not work very well with older browsers.  It may be in your best interested to either remove the bookmark feature or use the original flashcommand.js file.