Disaster! Can you rebuild project from a .ZIP file

No sorry Marcus - the published folder doesn't contain a copy of the source.

Any chance someone in the team has a copy in their temp folder?

Check file path  “AppData\Roaming\Articulate\Storyline” on your drive where you have installed you Articulate Storyline and there may be a copy with a .tmp file extension...if so copy it and change to .story ...you may be able to recover something

Thanks - will try that.

This may help. If you have a published version of the course. 

• Capture the screens. 
• Open the published folder and grab any media you need.
• Once you have the screens inside of Storyline, you can find places to redo them or just add interactive elements where you need them.

I wrote a post on this a while back. It's not perfect, but it's an easy way to get the course rebuilt (assuming it's not too complex).

Thank Tom, Where we can we are taking this approach. The most frustrating thing is that once the storyline is published the whole slide becomes an image - insofar as you cannot copy the text. Does anyone know why it publishes like that? I am guessing there is a technical or logical reason for it.

Hi Marcus, 

The text (and other slide elements) are contained with an SVG upon publishing, and the text isn't selectable in that output.

If you've published with Storyline 3 or Storyline 360 you could use the following method to access the slide text:

1. Within Chrome, go to the Dev console
2. In the Console, run the following code: 

   document.querySelectorAll('text').forEach(node => {

    node.style.pointerEvents = 'all';

    node.style.userSelect = 'all'

   });

3. The text on the slide will be selectable after that, and you'll need to do this for each slide.

Hope that helps! 

Hi Ashkley,

Do you have a list of command line calls I can use in Chrome Dev Consle? 

Only code I use is ShowDebugInfo();

I was wondering if there are some functions I can use to trouble shoot the user. 

Here's another post I did that that shows some tips on how to pull text from screens where the text isn't selectable.

Hi Sungmin,

I don't have any other Dev Console commands documented - that one came from our engineers looking to help with this specific question.