Articulate 2009 - Publish Support

Hi John!

How are you sharing the content with your SMEs?

When working on an Articulate Presenter course in a collaborative environment with other developers, use this workflow to avoid file corruption, loss of resources, and other erratic behavior.

Leslie,

Thanks for responding. I think I need to be a little more clear - sorry for not explaining better!

The issue isn't with the SMEs. The issue comes from once I make edits to the course - even if it's just one typo on a regular PPT slide, when I re-publish the course the quizzes freeze when you view/launch the final product. I'm trying to see if there's a way to avoid opening and saving the quizzes (and sometimes engage interactions) every single time I make an edit and want/need to re-publish.

I thought if I deleted the entire output folder each time that it would solve the problem - but it doesn't.

As I said I do a lot of work in Articulate and having to spend the extra 10 minutes each time really slows me down.

thanks

john

Hi John!

How are you viewing the published presentation? Can you try to view in its intended environment as your learner would?

Be sure that the file path to your presentation and also to the location where you are publishing are both well under the 260 character limit imposed by Microsoft Windows. Otherwise, any files or folders in your published output that exceed the 260 character limit will simply not get generated.

Leslie,

I'm viewing it by simply opening the player.html file after publishing. thanks for the headsups about the character limit. Didn't realize that, but in this case it isn't a problem.

I understand how the application uses the urls created to link to the various package itmes, so I'm always careful about file maintenance and relate issues. In this case, it's just rather annoying to have to open each quiz up in Quizmaker every time I want to re-publish the course after making a change or two - and that's just on the regular PPT slides.

I posted on the LinkedIn Forum and someone smartly pointed out that there's a publishing setting in the options that will automatically write-over the quizzes. I'm wondering - I tried that to no avail, but I deleted the folder before republishing since I had originally thought that might solve the issue before i saw that response. Do you think if I select that option but then don't dlete the folder it would update the quiz. It's important to me in the sense that I develop a lot of courses - Articulate being our main design tool, and it's an annoying waste of time. Plus, we have a very small tolerance for course issues because our company is heavily dependent on client technology out in the field.

Anyway - any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks

john

Hi John!

Here is the actual documentation for the information that was shared with you.

Is this issue only happening in one course, or is this something that happens in all of your courses?