Inserting a web object as a clickable object in Studio 360
Dec 27, 2016
By
Will Findlay
I want to do the following:
- Insert a web object that links to a video.
- Display the web object in a new browser window with No Browser Controls (so that it doesn't open as new tab, but rather as a separate pop-up window)
- and I don't want the web object to appear automatically. I want the user to click something to have it open.
However, when I do this and then publish the output, here is what it looks like. 
I was assuming it would show a preview of the page or something, but it shows the "Web Object is unavailable during preview" warning in the published output. Is there a better way to do this? I don't want to embed the video in the page directly, what I want is a link that goes to a URL on a pop-up page with no browser controls. If I click that rectangle, it does what I want, but I'm not sure how to control what the thing you click on looks like. I for sure don't want ot to say "Web Object unavailable during preview." :-)
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Hey Will - please be sure you are publishing and sharing the content as explained in this tutorial. You will need to view the content in the intended environment. That screenshot/warning indicates that you are still viewing in your local environment.
Thanks for the reply. Actually this is a screenshot from the content published to Articulate Review, so it is running off the web.
Hi Will!
Sorry to hear you've run into this issue. I have tried to replicate this behavior on my end, but I'm not seeing the 'Web Object is unavailable during preview' message you're seeing. Are you able to share your Articulate Package here? Or if you prefer to send it privately, you can share it with our Support Engineers by way of this form.
Also, it would be helpful to know what publish format you used and what browser you used to view the content. :)
Hey Will - I apologize for my oversight, but thankfully Alyssa has you covered. #teamwork
Thanks for both of your help! I submitted a case #00983516 and added the packaged files. What should the web object look like? I published to HTML5/Flash and am viewing using Chrome. Interestingly when I republished it this time it looks like this instead.
Thanks for sharing your case number, Will. It looks like Vevette is testing your file - you should hear back shortly!
Are you sure the URL is correct? When I launch "http://players.brightcove.net/70829860001/default_default/index.html?videoId=2577517360" in a normal browser window, I do get a play button, but clicking the button doesn't do anything.
Thanks Michael for checking. The gray box isn't displaying the entire url to the video. Clicking the gray box actually does work as designed, it's just that it's such an ugly gray box. :-)
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Vevette Chua, Customer Support Engineer, helped me come up with a very acceptable way to remedy this. It turns out that the Brightcove video player that I am using isn't currently able to be auto-captured as an image by Articulate like other pages (like YouTube). However, PowerPoint 2013 has a function called "Change Picture" that allowed me to swap the the gray image to another image of my choosing. After testing this, the image still retains the web object functionality where you can click it and open it in a pop-up window. Thanks!
Very cool solution - thanks for sharing that here, Will! I'm glad to hear Vevette got you all sorted. :)
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