When customizing a course for a client, we create and save a player template under the client name and publish.
For some reason, Presenter drops the player name after publishing? Without exiting PowerPoint, I can revisit the Publish dialog and the Player template is reset to the original template. Now I need to remember to select the proper client template name every time I publish.
Has anyone else experienced this problem and is there a fix?
Hi Sam. You do need to select the player template from the publishing wizard when you publish a presentation if you have never used the template you are editing with that particular presentation. The template in the publishing wizard is always the last template you published with, not the last template you edited. This is actually by design.
But when I select the target template and publish. I can return to publish and the target template is not selected. It seems to revert to the prior template now.
Hi Sam. Does this happen with any presentation or a specific presentation? Sounds like you are having a write permissions issue which might be due to where the PPTA file is located. Is the PowerPoint file located on your C: drive?
After many experiments, I found that my course-specific master template was the root problem. After re-creating the template starting with "corporate communications", all seems well once again.
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Hi Sam. You do need to select the player template from the publishing wizard when you publish a presentation if you have never used the template you are editing with that particular presentation. The template in the publishing wizard is always the last template you published with, not the last template you edited. This is actually by design.
Right.
But when I select the target template and publish. I can return to publish and the target template is not selected. It seems to revert to the prior template now.
Hi Sam. Does this happen with any presentation or a specific presentation? Sounds like you are having a write permissions issue which might be due to where the PPTA file is located. Is the PowerPoint file located on your C: drive?
After many experiments, I found that my course-specific master template was the root problem. After re-creating the template starting with "corporate communications", all seems well once again.
Cool. Thanks for letting us know!
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