Difficulty publishing multiple quizzes in Presenter
Feb 14, 2011
Where I have a single quiz included in a Presenter presentation: If I update the quiz then when I next publish the Presenter presentation it automatically updates the quiz to the latest version. OK so far.
However, I have a large presentation with mutliple quizzes - the actual quiz to be run is selected by the user.
When I publish, Presenter automatically detects which quizzes have been updated, but has difficulty in performing the update. When I select "Update" I get the message:
Unable to update Quiz slide - (quiz name)
If this quiz is already open in Articulate Quizmaker then please close it and republish
I DON'T have it open in Quizmaker! As the message asks so nicely (please!), I follow the next instruction but get the same result....
So far my only workaround has been to publish each updated quiz manually into the Presenter module, but this adds more error-prone manual steps.
5 Replies
Hi Peter & welcome to Heroes,
It sounds like you're working on a network drive or the target path of the quiz is greater than 128 characters. Can you check into those for me?
Brian
Why the path limit of 128 characters? Seems a strange limit...
But I checked this.
Definitely not a network drive!
The "true" path length in Win 7, including the file name is 124 characters. It could possibly be longer if Presenter uses the Desktop\Libraries\Documents\My Documents ... path.
The actual string is "
But why your reply screen parses it in this way remains another mystery!
I searched to see if there are any similar restrictions. The only reference I can find is http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=2347 which mentions a limit of 256 bytes.
Are you publishing your presentation to a subfolder where your presentation file is located?
Brian
No, if I understand you correctly...
The structure is as follows:
6- Sect 8 Foundations Tests
Output
8.0_Foundation_Tests_V4.pptx
8.0_Foundation_Tests_V4.ppta
Publish 96k (Publish to here)
8.0_Foundation_Tests
data
player
etc
I use the same basic structure, with different names, for approx. 20 separate modules of this product.
Hi Peter,
Would you mind submitting a support case to us so that we can take a closer look at the issue?
Please create an Articulate Presenter package, then upload the zip file to our server. You can review how to do this here:
Send to Articulate Presenter Package – Articulate Presenter ’09 Help
Upload the resulting zip file from your computer to our server using this upload form:
Articulate Support - Upload Your Files for Review
Please be sure to include a description of your issue, your version of PowerPoint, version of Windows and version of Presenter '09 which you can find in Help and Support -> About Articulate Presenter. Please also include the URL for this thread so we can follow up with you in the forums.
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