Create a custom button to make a snapshot

Aug 28, 2019

I am looking to see if anyone has created a custom button to create a snapeshot on an Ipad.  I have a course and need to have the user send the pass/fail to there manager as a snapshot.

 

Thank you

2 Replies
Phil Mayor

It is not that simple to achieve, you can use Html2Canvas javascript library to capture the browser window, but the Storyline window is quite complex and built in layers so it does not capture every time. Then there is a question of what you do with the screen capture it will be by default a base64 image but you cannot save in a storyline variable. You should be able to convert to png or jpg and download. You could email the image if the user has an email client installed, I think you would have to data encode the image, not sure an image can be included in the body of a mailto:

I started a side project a couple of months ago to save a screenshot in Storyline and then embed in a pdf, I didn't have the time to finish it (it is on my to do when I am less busy list). I never managed to get an accurate screenshot.

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