hyperlink to a txt file in Quizmaker

Beatrice,

Is this Quiz part of a presenter course or stand alone.  I know that if it is part of presenter course, then you can add your text document as an Attachment in Presenter.  Then in Quizmaker, make your hyperlink path  "data/downloads/nameofdoc" and the hyperlink will download the document.  "Nameofdoc" should actually be the name of the document.  For example, in your scenario, your link would be data/downloads/mydoc.txt

Need to add it as an attachment in presenter for this to work.

Hope this helps

Hello,

I've tried to do so following Ron's advice, however it won't seem to work.

I've added this word document named ''Assurance de la responsabilité civile Chapitre 1 Garantie A_2.5.2" as an attachment in presenter.

Then in Quizmaker, I added   data/downloads/''Assurance de la responsabilité civile Chapitre 1 Garantie A_2.5.2 in the address field of the Hyperkink Edit box.

This is what I see when I publish and try out the link.

Hey Julie,

Sorry for the troubles . . . I would suggest a couple of things . . .

First - I would shorten the file name of your attachment - that's an amazing amount of characters.

Also make sure you are not including the quotation marks. . . . I am assuming that was just in the post, but you do not really want to use anything other than alpha numeric characters in your files names.

However, the issue is probably in the spaces in your file name.  I would stay away from using spaces in naming these files, because those will all replaced with  "20%", which can be problematic.

So, try renaming your attachment - much shorter, no spaces, no quotations or other characters and give it another whirl.

Hope that helps

Hi again,

I changed:

- the name of the Word document to question1 

But I still get the same issue....  I must be doing something wrong here...

Julie, you need to delete the http:// also I would add the file extension (.doc, .pdf etc) you are linking to a relative path so no need to http://

Hi Phil,

I've changed my file name to question1.doc in the Edit Hyperlink address field and tried it with and without the http://

No suck luck...

The hyperlink is on a blank slide for question feedback which is linked to the question slide.

Hey Julie,

In your last screenshot, you can see the 20% symbols in the error message.  Those are there because there are still some spaces in your path.  See if you can get the document in a path with no spaces and see if that makes a difference.

It also looks like you are trying to test locally, and hyperlinks dont really work well locally.

I also wonder if you are previewing the quiz in quizmaker or in ppt, in quizmaker it will not load the player and therefore the attached documents will not be in the correct place to link to.

I would also try to avoid linking to office documents and use a pdf if possible because IE can throw errors using office documents

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSss . It's working!

I shortened the path where my document was located and also converted my Word document into a .PDF.

Thank you both for your help!

Well done. Don't you love it when a plan comes together?  It does not take much to throw things off ttrack. There's a deeper lesson in there somewhere I am sure.