When working on an Articulate Presenter presentation in a collaborative environment with other developers, I recommend that you use the following workflow:
1. Use the Send to Articulate Presenter Package feature to make an exact copy of the project and the included Engage interactions and Quizmaker quizzes per the method in the article below:
If the project files are already located on a network drive, proceed to Step 2.
If the project files are currently located on your local hard drive, skip to Step 6.
2. When you need to edit or publish the presentation, copy the ZIP file (the Articulate Presenter Package) from your network drive to your local hard drive. 3. Extract (unzip) the project files onto your local hard drive. 4. Edit and / or publish the presentation as necessary. 5. Use the Send to Articulate Presenter Package feature (from Step 1) to make an exact copy of the updated project files. 6. Copy the resulting ZIP file to your network drive for storage and sharing. 7. Repeat Steps 2 through 6 whenever you need to edit or publish the presentation in the future.
By working on the main project files on your local hard drive, you prevent any corruption or erratic behavior of the files that might have occurred by working on a network drive (ie: random backups). Also, this method ensures that all of your Engage interactions and Quizmaker quizzes stay properly linked together.
Please note: If you send a Presenter package to someone and they in turn use the Send to Presenter package function as well, the interactions and quizzes will not be included in the second generation package. Take a look at this article which outlines how to workaround this issue:
This is likely due to opening the zip file versus extracting the contents of the zip file into a new folder. You can easily extract the contents of a zip file into a new folder using the Extract or Extract All right-click function in Windows XP or greater. Here’s how: http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=1878
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Welcome to Heroes, Kathleen!
1. Use the Send to Articulate Presenter Package feature to make an exact copy of the project and the included Engage interactions and Quizmaker quizzes per the method in the article below:
3. Extract (unzip) the project files onto your local hard drive.
4. Edit and / or publish the presentation as necessary.
5. Use the Send to Articulate Presenter Package feature (from Step 1) to make an exact copy of the updated project files.
6. Copy the resulting ZIP file to your network drive for storage and sharing.
7. Repeat Steps 2 through 6 whenever you need to edit or publish the presentation in the future.
By working on the main project files on your local hard drive, you prevent any corruption or erratic behavior of the files that might have occurred by working on a network drive (ie: random backups). Also, this method ensures that all of your Engage interactions and Quizmaker quizzes stay properly linked together.
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=2416
Thank you. When we open the zip file and then open the powerpoint file, we get a read only file. Thanks again for your help!
Hi Kathleen,
This is likely due to opening the zip file versus extracting the contents of the zip file into a new folder. You can easily extract the contents of a zip file into a new folder using the Extract or Extract All right-click function in Windows XP or greater. Here’s how:
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=1878
Thank you Peter. Yes, we did eventually read your instructions correctly. Thanks again.
Glad you got it working, Kathleen
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