The Launch_Story.exe is the file that will launch your course when you've published for CD or another local source. You can read more about publishing for CD here.
When you use the exe file it'll launch within a player built for local delivery that is based on Internet Explorer. When you use the story.html file and you've published for CD/local it'll launch within your default web browser - which depending on the browser may not perform as expected.
The EXE essentially makes it so that running locally you don't run into the Flash security sandbox or other javascript active content restrictions that will prevent your output from running properly. The browser still runs within the EXE, as Ashley points out.
If you're looking for an all-in-one packager, you might have luck with a package like Zinc. This type of packaging isn't what the articulate executable was built for.
Neither of these resources mention the fact that the Published CD/executable requires that the end-user have IE installed with Flash. This is absolutely critical business-information that appears nowhere except as a reply to another user who encountered this same problem.
Articulate needs to have the tech pub folks edit the intro of CD publishing article to say:
"Articulate Storyline has an option to publish for local playback. Use this option if you need to deploy your course on a CD, DVD, or standalone computer (kiosk) that has IE with Flash installed."
I have passed along the suggestion for updating the information, and I also wanted to provide the links to the resources that I posted in a similar thread yesterday.
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the flash player is not included in the exe file if this was not installed it would need to be downloaded
Hi Phil,
Many thanks for the feedback
Do you mean: you need to download the flash player first before running the exe file? Or does the CD have the flash player..
Ie. When you publish in Captivate to a CD via .exe file you don't need to download the player.
Regards,
Chris
You need the flash player already installed
What purpose does the exe serve?
Hi NS,
The Launch_Story.exe is the file that will launch your course when you've published for CD or another local source. You can read more about publishing for CD here.
So will story.html... What benefit does the exe actually provide?
Hi N S,
When you use the exe file it'll launch within a player built for local delivery that is based on Internet Explorer. When you use the story.html file and you've published for CD/local it'll launch within your default web browser - which depending on the browser may not perform as expected.
This is bad, and is not documented!
The EXE essentially makes it so that running locally you don't run into the Flash security sandbox or other javascript active content restrictions that will prevent your output from running properly. The browser still runs within the EXE, as Ashley points out.
If you're looking for an all-in-one packager, you might have luck with a package like Zinc. This type of packaging isn't what the articulate executable was built for.
Good to know. Where is this documented?
Here's the article for publishing a course to CD:
https://community.articulate.com/articles/publishing-a-course-for-cd-or-another-local-source
Here's the KB for "won't publish to single SWF":
http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline-2/storyline-does-not-support-publishing-to-a-single-swf-file
Neither of these resources mention the fact that the Published CD/executable requires that the end-user have IE installed with Flash. This is absolutely critical business-information that appears nowhere except as a reply to another user who encountered this same problem.
Articulate needs to have the tech pub folks edit the intro of CD publishing article to say:
"Articulate Storyline has an option to publish for local playback. Use this option if you need to deploy your course on a CD, DVD, or standalone computer (kiosk) that has IE with Flash installed."
Hi, Evan --
I have passed along the suggestion for updating the information, and I also wanted to provide the links to the resources that I posted in a similar thread yesterday.
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