Embedding Published Story into a Story

Arran,

Do you have the raw files from the published content your trying to embed or only the published files? Reason I ask is you could take the raw files copy and paste them as a new scene in the new story and link a button or something to the old story. then at the end of the old story have it link back to the current one. This only works if you have the raw files.

You could do this by adding your story in as a Web Object. Problem with this is going to be scaling. Your container story will need to be bigger than your embedded story unless you set the embedded story to scale to fit the window.

Kevin - Unfortunately I don't have the originals, just a published version.

Steve - The final version of the story I'm working on will be accessed through an LMS. I haven't had any luck inserting the published story as a web object. I'm guessing I'm not putting the published files in the right location. If the final is going to be on an LMS, where should I be putting the published files?

Thanks for your responses

You can bundle everything into one package and not have to reference the Web Object from another web location.

• Take the published output you want to bring into another story and place it somewhere on your drive in a folder.
• Rename the story.html file to index.html.
• Insert Web Object and navigate to the folder you created for your published output. Add the Web Object to the slide.
• Resize the Web Object and place it where you want it.

This will now publish every time you publish your story. It will also be saved in your .story file. A few drawbacks. If your embedded story files had previously interacted with the LMS, they now will not. So you won't get restore of the state of slides or variables. It also won't communicate any scores or completion. It will essentially be a passive content object.

There are ways to make embedded story files communicate TO the LMS. But, unfortunately, not much can be done with the embedded story to connect it for two way communication. The main file initializes communication with the LMS and LMS communication is one-at-a-time.

Thanks Steve, for clarifying how to insert it as a web object. This will work well if I end up going that route. Still debating whether I need to insert the published story or if I can simply make a video of it and insert that, especially since it wouldn't communicate with the LMS.