Hello, I work in medical education and am designing a module in Storyline 360. The faculty member SME provided a 4 page PDF document that needs to be readable for learners. I have tried converting the PDF pages into .png files but that gives me 4 separate images. Ideally I would want all 4 document pages on one slide which is why my initial thought was the scrolling panel. Is there a trick to doing this in the scrolling panel, or anther suggestion? Thanks!
I posted and then did find a response in an older post from several years ago. It does work to add multiple .png files to one scrolling panel but it was time consuming and fiddly. I will leave this open if anyone has a suggestion for a simpler solution.
I would use the Open URL/file trigger. You can select the location of the .pdf, and tie it to a learner action (clicking, e. g.) or a program action (when timeline starts, e.g.) You can't see it in preview, but when you publish it, the .pdf is packaged with the published outcome. It's in the story_content/external_files folder.
I made an empty slide with nothing on it except a trigger to open the .pdf, published it, and zipped it. You can unzip it and see how it works.
Thank you Walt, I had not considered using that trigger. I appreciate the response, it seems like a more simple solution than trying to create one very long scrolling panel.
Hi Amanada! I am in the same boat as you are. I needed to have a multi-page PDF viewable within a module.
Yesterday I was goofing around trying to figure out a solution and I found that when my documents were saved on our organization's online drive, the documents all have an embed code.
I was able to use the embed code and insert it into the module just as you would a video and the learner is able to scroll through the pages of the PDF and it looks like it is just another part of the module!
Thanks so much for sharing what worked for you; this is a big help to the community!
I hope Amanda is still subscribed to this thread since her last reply was three years ago, but feel free to use the Contact Me link on their profile to reach out if you want!
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I posted and then did find a response in an older post from several years ago. It does work to add multiple .png files to one scrolling panel but it was time consuming and fiddly. I will leave this open if anyone has a suggestion for a simpler solution.
Older post, see the comment from Carolyn 5 years ago: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/multiple-page-pdf-in-scrolling-panel
I would use the Open URL/file trigger. You can select the location of the .pdf, and tie it to a learner action (clicking, e. g.) or a program action (when timeline starts, e.g.) You can't see it in preview, but when you publish it, the .pdf is packaged with the published outcome. It's in the story_content/external_files folder.
I made an empty slide with nothing on it except a trigger to open the .pdf, published it, and zipped it. You can unzip it and see how it works.
Thank you Walt, I had not considered using that trigger. I appreciate the response, it seems like a more simple solution than trying to create one very long scrolling panel.
Hi Amanada! I am in the same boat as you are. I needed to have a multi-page PDF viewable within a module.
Yesterday I was goofing around trying to figure out a solution and I found that when my documents were saved on our organization's online drive, the documents all have an embed code.
I was able to use the embed code and insert it into the module just as you would a video and the learner is able to scroll through the pages of the PDF and it looks like it is just another part of the module!
Hope this might help others!
Hello Kendi!
Thanks so much for sharing what worked for you; this is a big help to the community!
I hope Amanda is still subscribed to this thread since her last reply was three years ago, but feel free to use the Contact Me link on their profile to reach out if you want!