Can you import a Presenter Player Template into Storyline?

Mar 22, 2013

I'm converting some Presenter courses into Storyline and I'd like to duplicate the look and feel of the original course without a lot of extra work.  Is it possible to import the color scheme from a Presenter course into Storyline?  I imported slides, but the Storyline template is the "default".    I have the color "road maps"  for both products, but converting from one to the other will take a lot of time that I don't really have.   Suggestions?

7 Replies
Christine Hendrickson

Hi Joyce,

If a PowerPoint presentation includes Articulate Presenter resources, the information contained in the player template—such as navigation settings, text labels, and colors—will not be imported into Storyline when you import the presentation.

You'll need to configure these settings in the Storyline player.

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So, you'll need to try and recreate that design for use in Storyline, if you want to carry over the same colors in your new courses.

Good luck with the project, Joyce!

Jason Anderson

Seems like this is something that should be added - cross product support for player templates.

The logic of a media player layout templates that you can incorporate into multiple publication venues seems rather mundane and obvious. 

Adobe offers cross product support between applications like Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, and it's entirely family of products. Microsoft offers cross product support between applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.  

Is that the stance that Articulate wants to take? We don't offer cross product support for customized templates? Seems rather Draconian...

Maria Costa-Stienstra

Hi, Pascaline.

Thank you for reaching out

The functionality hasn't changed: Presenter's player settings won't be imported into Storyline. 

I've been able to import this later into a SL file however i would like to know if this would not cause some issues when exporting in scorm etc

I'm not sure I understand how you imported it into the Storyline file. Was it done by editing the published output?