master menu to integrate many modules on one CD or flash drive?

Hi Barbara! Hopefully someone in the community will be able to chime in and assist you here. I'm not sure that I'm aware of someone that has set up something like this. My searching only found an old thread with a similar need.

Thank you Leslie.  That was indeed a very helpful older thread.  I am reviewing CD menu creation software now. 

Barbara

Sounds great Barbara. Thanks for the update.

Hi Barbara I would build a HTML page to do this and set theautotrun to point to this page

Outrun from USB has been disabled on windows PCs and will never work on a Mac 

Thanks so much for your input here, Phil! Please let us know if that will work for you, Barbara, of if you need further assistance. :)

Hi Phil,

Thanks for this suggestion.  I don't work in HTML, although I have in the past.  I don't think I've ever "set autorun" in HTML.  You're the second person now to have suggested something like this.  I will take this suggestion and follow up on it as well.

Best regards, Barbara

Hi all,

So in thinking this through another options has presented itself to me.  What if I create a simple 1 slide Presenter file with clickable buttons that hyper-link to all of the other modules, and publish it for CD? 

The resulting package would include an auto run file that would just need to be placed in the CD's root directory along with the rest of the folders/files for the Presenter slide, right?  If I set the buttons on the 1 slide menu to link to the "presentation.html" files for each module, and make sure that all of the folders and files for each module are also included in the CD, then in THEORY, that should work.  Right?

What do you think?  Anyone?  :)

I trued this once and it kept throwing an error because you are linking to exe files, you can try linking to the presentation.html but it may not play locally

Hope Phil's suggestion does the trick for you, Barbara! Please let us know. :)

Thanks so much Phil.  After some deliberation I think we will use a CD menu writing software to develop the menu.  we have already created a menu with one such software and it is functional.  Just seemed like the easiest option, and not very expensive at all either.

thanks all, Barbara

We appreciate the update, Barbara. :)

Barbara,

As an option, you might consider building all the modules within the same published Presenter output.  I have created several "job aids" over the last four years using this technique.  The opening 3-4 slides give the general instructions, then the following slide is the Main Menu.  This page contains hyperlinked buttons to each of the different modules within the program.

Each module has a "landing page" with instructions for that module.  Each page within a module has hyperlink controls to navigate within the module (some have sub-sections) and to return to the Main Menu.  The advantage to this type of structure is the ability to control the published output files (everything in one place).

As I said, I've done several of these modular job aids with very good response from my target audiences.  Hope this is helpful.