Manifest not found

Rebecca, how are you zipping your content?

Hi Rebecca!

Sorry to hear you are experiencing difficulty with this. 

To expand on Brian's comment above, I would be sure to zip your content directly in the 'Publish Successful' dialog box.

You mention 'lately' as well, so you may want to test uploading to SCORM Cloud to see if that is successful, then follow-up with your LMS if needed.

Hi Brian, hi Leslie,

many thanks for your swifr replies. I am Kind of desperate here since I am not able to figure out what is going on.

So far, have published my projects as follows:

Usually this works out pretty well. Therefore, I have no idea what I have to change. 

@ Leslie: Sorry but where can I find the "publish successful" Dialog box?

Kind regards and thanks for your hints.

Rebecca

So close Rebecca! One more step past hitting that Publish button :)

This box:

Dear Leslie,

thanks for your support. I think I am going crazy here. I Have published my project again and the following pop up says that it has been succesful:

However, I cannot upload it to our LMS as the manifest file cannot be found:

After this window appears I just click on zip. After a few seconds the zip-file has been saved locally and I switch to our LMS. There, I open up the course and click on "add scorm module" and the error message appears.

This is really embarassing but I am totally lost.

Does anybody know a step by step description? I have searched the net myself but could not find any solution for this problem.

Kind regards

Rebecca

Don't be embarrassed Rebecca :) I cannot speak to your LMS, but I'd love to try to help you out. Sounds like you are taking the right steps.

Would you be able to share your Articulate Package for us to take a look? I'd like to publish/upload to see if it's successful or if something else is going on.

Hi Leslie,

thanks you so much.

I have attached the latest zip-file of my project.

Hi Rebecca - Looks like you shared the zipped published output versus the project file, but nonetheless...it published without error for me. You can see my published output here.

On that note, I think it would be best to follow up with your LMS team because your zip file is good. You're uploading that same zip file to your LMS when you get the error?

I know that's not the answer you wanted from me, but I hope they will be able to quickly assist you.

Hi Leslie,

thanks again for your swift reply. I sent you exactly the zip-file I have tried to upload several times..

The problem here is that I am my LMS team :-)

At least, I did not do anything wrong while creating the course.

Kind regards

Rebecca

Oh no! Are you able to upload other files? Have you tried republishing the file to see if that helps? Are you saving in a local location?

I searched to make sure I wasn't overlooking something, and the zip process is typically the culprit.

If you see a message that the manifest can't be found when launching a course in your learning management system (LMS), it's likely that the SCORM output wasn't properly zipped. An LMS won't be able to find the imsmanfest.xml file for a course if it's not at the root level of the zip file. To correct it, do either of the following:

• Use the built-in Zip feature on the Publish Successful dialog after you've published your Articulate content. It'll automatically create a well-formed zip file.
• If you manually zip the output files, make sure to only zip the contents of the output folder, not the folder itself.

Hi Leslie,

I uploaded my project on SCORM Cloud and it worked.

The Articulate Support keeps telling me that the LMS is the problem. However, the external LMS Support keeps telling me that it must be the Articulate Software. ...

Thus, I am trying to follow the instrcuctions you send me above. Can you explain waht the "root level of a zip-file" is and where to find it?

I would like to try to zip the project manually as suggested above. But I have no clue how to do that. Which files do I have to zip and in which order?

The Content of my zip-file looks like that:

Do you have any idea where to start?

Sorry for asking again.

Kind regards

Rebecca

Dear Leslie,

we figured it out...really stupid mistake...the title contained Umlauts...apparently this causes problems..

Kind regards

Rebeccca

My goodness. Glad you were able to track that down Rebecca. 

I appreciate you popping back in with an update - and these lessons are ones we never forget ;) 

You bet I will never forget this one :-)

I hate such stupid mistakes because they waste so much time...

Thanks a lot for wasting your time too :-)

Kind regards

Rebecca

Not a waste - just glad you're back in working order :)