Customizing "The content has ended. You may close this window"

Hello Melanie,

after you publish your course for Lms in a output folder, you'll have to edit the goodbye.html page in your /lms subfolder.

Stefano

Thanks Stefano for helping Melanie out here. 

Hi Stefano and Ashley!

First, thank you for your answers! It helped me!

Second, since we develop French courses, it would be time consuming for us to edit the goodbye.html page each time we publish a new version of a course. Do you know if there is a way to do this modification once for all the courses and publications?

Thanks in advance!

Elaine Poirier

You can update it in your "Program Files (x86)" folder.  Look in your Articulate->Articulate Studio->content->lms folder for the "goodbye.html" file.  If you change it there, it should change it for all published courses you publish for an LMS.

Thanks Trent for sharing that here with us! 

Thank you, Trent. This worked a treat and I am creating custom "goodbye" slides for all of my SCORMs now. I'm curious if anyone has tried to replicate the final slide of the slideshow (which in my case is a kind of pre-goodbye, used to signal the LMS that a video on the previous slide has been watched all the way through), in order to place it into the HTML file in hopes of having the same aesthetic in the goodbye slide as on the final slide in the SCORM? I tried using a regular Flash decompiler but there's no there there. (Apologies to Gertrude Stein.) OK I only looked at about the first six swf's in the decompiler but they were all code. Is there an anatomy of a Storyline SCORM anywhere?

Hi everyone, I'm very new at this, so apologies if this is a silly question! I need to update this text as well and I've located the goodbye.html in the lms subfolder - but I don't know how to edit it. It seems locked and I'm unable to make any modifications. Can you advise? Thank you!

1. Create your own HTML file with anything you like--graphics, text, etc.
2. Save it with the file name "goodbye.html" and be sure to keep it in a safe location.
3. After publishing your SL content, copy your version of the goodbye file into the LMS folder of your published files, thus over-writing the goodbye file generated by SLine.

Remember: the goodbye file is written on-the-fly every time you publish. So you'll need to keep your version of the goodbye file in a safe/handy place, and manually copy into the LMS folder after any publish.
Good luck!

Thanks Melanie for chiming back in here with those steps. 

Thank you so much!!!

Hi team,

What about we have localized an English storyline into let's say 20 languages. Is there any way we can have this text (The content has ended. You may close this window.) included in the export for translation instead of having to extract manually the text for every project and then manually insert it back?

Thanks!

Hi Marion, 

You mentioned Storyline - but this is an older Quizmaker thread. Do you have a screenshot of what you're seeing so that we can point you to the right spot for this language?

Hi Ashley,
We're using Storyline 2. When you publish, if you go to lms>goodbye.html.
In this file you get these 2 sentences. These don't appear when you export
for translation. Hence when you localize the courses into several
languages, you need to add this html file manually after publishing for
every language/course. Could this be avoided and these 2 sentences added to
the Storyline Word doc export for translation?
Marion

Hi Marion, 

Since changing the "Exit Course" message requires making modifications to the published output, that's not something we currently support. But adding those sentences to the Storyline Word document export for translation certainly sounds like an idea worth sharing with our product development team in the form of a feature request here! 

I'm glad I found this thread, just what I wanted.  My only problem is that I can't modify the master goodbye.html file that resides in Program Files (x86) on my PC (that needs an admin account). What I'm doing at the moment is copying my customised goodbye.html into the ".storyline output" lms folder after publishing but before zipping.

Yep. That's the way to do it if you can't access the source folder. :)

Put the following script on the button completion of the course:

function DoCPExit()
{
if(window != window.parent && window.parent && window.parent["DoCPExit"] !== undefined )
{
window.parent.DoCPExit();
}
else
{
if(window.top == self)
{
var win = window.open("","_self");
win.close();
}
else
{
var win = window.top.open("","_self");
win.top.close();
}
}
}
DoCPExit();

Thus You have the window will close before the advent of HTML file "goodbye.html"

Hi Aleksey,

how do I insert your script on the button? Can you explain the procedure?

Thanks!

It's a Trigger on the button.  Look for the Action "Run javascript" (or something like that, I'm away from my work PC) and you should find where to enter it.
Just found this on Vimeo, same idea, just apply your trigger to a button or whatever you desire. You should be able to just copy & paste Aleksey's code.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KWBvdY-GEw

Thank you Mike!!! :-)

I see that it actually closes the window ... not quite what I would want.

I am using Moodle for my LMS.  So, I looked at the Moodle "Exit activity" button that is shown after exiting the course (on the page for ... Content has ended ....)

I copied the "Exit activity" button's url (https://learning.example.co.uk/course/view.php?id=999#Section-1)  and applied it as a "Jump to URL" trigger on my final slide's Exit button.

The "Exit activity" button's url will be different for each course.