Newbie Question - about broken links

Feb 13, 2012

Paul Devon
By Paul Devon

Hi,

I have just taken over the maintenance of a series of 75 courses that my company use to comply with process regulation (yawn I hear).

My colleague who has left sent me each of the courses contents in a zipped file (75 zipped files in total).  I have extracted the course files in to separate folders on my home drive and now have a need to edit the content (name changes on all 75). 

The problem is on the first few course that I have edited all the engage links appear t be broken when I publish. 

Am I doing something wrong ? or does Articulate use absolute naming conventions if so is there a quick fix?

Many Thanks for any help

Regards Paul

4 Replies
Karin Albright
12 years ago02/13/12 at 2:10 pm (UTC)

Paul, do you know if your predecessor was sending you Articulate Packages, or just zipped files? If you received Articulate Packages, the trick is to not change the file structure. Copy the zip file to your hard drive, unzip it there, and open the PowerPoint within the unzipped folder. Don't move or re-name any file within the folder.

You can't do this with courses built before Articulate 2009, or if the courses weren't saved as Articulate Packages, and you'll have to locate and re-insert the Engage files. 

Here's a couple of things you can do to make your life easier in the future (and life for whoever follows you): 1) Create an Articulate Package for every course you build and 2) use the notes section of the PowerPoint slide to write the name of the file and its path which you are importing into your presentation. 

Paul Devon
12 years ago02/13/12 at 2:21 pm (UTC)

Karin,

firstly thanks for such a speedy responxe.

I'm not sure how my colleague created the packages but they have a folder strucure in the Zipped files ie an images folder , a data folder (this has pdf files in) and and an Engage folder this has the Enageg interaction files.  The top folder has the powerpoint presentation in.

My plan is to locate them on a shared access controlled drive and I wil certainly use the tips you have gievn.

Thanks once again Paul

Karin Albright
12 years ago02/13/12 at 2:51 pm (UTC)

You've got courses  made in Articulate Presenter 5 or earlier. So since you don't have the Package, you will indeed have to re-insert the Engage interactions.

Be sure not to work on the courses on the shared drive--Articulate warns you about this. It's a good place to redundantly save your work, but if you want your files available for others to open and work on, you should always create an Articulate Package. (You do so by cicking the Office button at the top left of the Powerpoint interface, then choose Send>Articulate Package.) I'm assuming you are currently working in Articulate 2009--if you're not, you can't do this.

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