I am about to publish a storyline 2 story that needs to appear on my organisation's website. We also have a YouTube channel, so I could publish it as a video. Here are my concerns:
1) If I publish it to the website, I would like to know the best way to do this. Should I publish it as WEB? I am embedding links. Will these be maintained once I publish?
2) If I record it and load it to YouTube, will the links still work? If not, what solutions are there for this?
Videos don't really offer interaction so you're really speaking to two different types of presentation. I'd suggest publishing to the Web and packaging (unzipping) the published files on your company's website. Good luck
Did you upload the entire contents of the published output folder to your server? You'll link to the story.html file to play in your browser once uploaded.
If that didn't work you could also try on a testing platform such upload to Tempshare?
There is no error message. I published for web and sent the files to the person who looks after the website. I tried as an "email." I tried as a zip file from my hard drive. I tried just sending the files. When she loads them, they are "empty."
Hm, ok - let's try something else. When you created the zip folder did you use the option on the Storyline "publish successful" window or manually? Are you able to share the .zip file you created here with us or test it at Tempshare yourself?
If you're able to attach it here I can give it a test as well, and see if I spot anything off!
The files may be too large to email as well. Do you have the option to transfer to your colleague via an FTP, or using a file transfer site like Dropbox where you could easily upload the .zip folder?
When we employed the tempshare it worked! The problem is that it expires in 10 days. Is there any other tempshare-like software that can be used (hopefully free) that is permanent?
In terms of your questions, yes, the zip was from the published successfully window. I also tried sending her an email from that window. I also tried sending the files from that window (from "open").
We do not have the ability to do FTP (the login is not accessible to us - we have communicated with the server providers, but have not heard back yet).
I could try the dropbox option. That may work.
Since tempshare worked, I suspect that the answer is some sort of bridging software like tempshare. If anyone has any recommendations for a permanent version, that would be great!
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Videos don't really offer interaction so you're really speaking to two different types of presentation. I'd suggest publishing to the Web and packaging (unzipping) the published files on your company's website. Good luck
Ok. I tried to publish to web and then load into the server. The server will not accept it. Any insight as to why?
Hi Rhonda,
Did you get an error message from your server?
Did you upload the entire contents of the published output folder to your server? You'll link to the story.html file to play in your browser once uploaded.
If that didn't work you could also try on a testing platform such upload to Tempshare?
1. If you publish as web and upload ALL the files it should work as you intended. Are you uploading with FTP or something else?
2. No, the links will not work as video I believe... you are just viewing your files, not interacting with them.
There is no error message. I published for web and sent the files to the person who looks after the website. I tried as an "email." I tried as a zip file from my hard drive. I tried just sending the files. When she loads them, they are "empty."
Hm, ok - let's try something else. When you created the zip folder did you use the option on the Storyline "publish successful" window or manually? Are you able to share the .zip file you created here with us or test it at Tempshare yourself?
If you're able to attach it here I can give it a test as well, and see if I spot anything off!
The files may be too large to email as well. Do you have the option to transfer to your colleague via an FTP, or using a file transfer site like Dropbox where you could easily upload the .zip folder?
Hi Ashley,
When we employed the tempshare it worked! The problem is that it expires in 10 days. Is there any other tempshare-like software that can be used (hopefully free) that is permanent?
In terms of your questions, yes, the zip was from the published successfully window. I also tried sending her an email from that window. I also tried sending the files from that window (from "open").
We do not have the ability to do FTP (the login is not accessible to us - we have communicated with the server providers, but have not heard back yet).
I could try the dropbox option. That may work.
Since tempshare worked, I suspect that the answer is some sort of bridging software like tempshare. If anyone has any recommendations for a permanent version, that would be great!
Hi Rhonda!
I'm glad to hear Tempshare worked! It's designed solely for testing purposes and that's why we kept it to 10 days.
There are plenty of other web servers around - have you looked at Amazon S3?
My guess is the files are all packaged ok, but something is happened when your coworker uploads it. Do you know step by step what they're doing?
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