Delete uneeded scenes vs. import needed scenes into new .story file
Jul 13, 2016
By
John Blum
We have a Storyline "starter kit" .story file which has several scenes containing various techniques (closed captions, etc.), slide masters, variables, standard slides, and other things to be used when developing new courses.
The way we use it is to open the starter kit, then "save as" with a new file name, and develop the course.
When the course is ready to be published, which of the following is the better practice and why? Is it better to delete all of the scenes from the starter kit then save and publish the project? Or is it better to save it, create a new Storyline project, and then import from that saved project only those scenes that are needed for the course?
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Hi, John -- Thanks for reaching out here! And while I will defer to your fellow community members to share their own unique ideas and advice, I thought I would mention that you would also be welcome to reach out in our Building Better Courses forum for best practices insights.
Thank you, Christie!
Save, then delete, then save.
Unless it makes a HUGE difference in your project size, keeping those extra scenes offends only your own sense of rectitude. They don't (as far as I know) hurt the project, and serve as an extra backup of the scenes.
I can't remember the last time I was hurt by having too many backups, but too few ...
This is an interesting question and I'd love to hear how others deal with it. And whether one way or the other creates a "cleaner" and smaller file.
I will say that one disadvantage of importing scenes into a new project is you lose any and all of the custom guides you may have set up in your original course. When I create a course I set up a very detailed set of guides that I use to align virtually everything on my page. Importing those scenes into a new file blows all those guides away.
Hi Brett,
In this case, deleting the starter kit scenes does create a smaller file.
Hi Everyone,
Here is another helpful reply in the Building Better Courses discussion:
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better-courses/delete-uneeded-scenes-vs-import-needed-scenes-into-new-story-file-85d5db30-465e-4e05-bcbd-fadd978cc2ec
Many thanks for passing along that link, John! Hopefully it will help others who come across this conversation, as well. :)
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