Entering Keywords when Publishing

Hi Walter!

Keywords aren't currently used. They'll be used in a future version of the Articulate Mobile Player app.

This information can be found in this tutorial.

Thanks for your assistance Leslie. But I already read that in the tutorial before I posted above. It's not very clear.

That statement is made in the section that talks to mobile players. I'm not publishing courses for mobile players. I'm publishing to an LMS. I want users to type in a search word that is connected to the published Keywords so they can find the course.

The only way that statement works is if it actually means, "Keywords are only used for the Mobile Player and no other published file, but it is currently not functioning." But I don't think that's the case because why would the keywords be available at all then?

If the keywords actually do not talk to the LMS, then I'll stop using them, if they do talk to the LMS, I need to know how the words are separated. Thanks again!

More clarification: I'm talking about the Keywords field located in the Reporting and Tracking Options Window, not the Project Info window.

Further clarification: I made a video. See attached. Thanks,!

The same information holds true for publishing to an LMS as you can see here. The field carries over from both screens

Again, thank you for your help. The tutorial you linked does not answer my question or talk about how keywords carry over from the Project Info window to the Reporting and Tracking window. All I want to know is, does the Keyword field on the Reporting and Tracking window do anything? And if it does, what is the separator between words. The tutorial here does not answer those questions.

I apologize for the confusion Walter. I thought the explanation was clear.

Keywords are not currently being used. 

The field is there for a future version of the Articulate Mobile Player.

So, it does not do anything at this time.

An update; Just got the E-Learning Uncovered Articulate Storyline 2 book by eLearning Brothers. In it, they say that you can use keywords and to separate them by commas ... Who is correct, Articulate or the book?

It's on Page 231 of the book in the section 'Project Information' in the Publishing chapter, 4th bullet down.

Hi, Walter

I am experiencing the same issue as, i was wondering did you find the asnwer to your question. I would be great help if you let me know. 

Hi Nasieba,

I contacted Artisan E-Learning and they did some research. Keywords do export in the meta.xml file that goes to the LMS. But the LMS has to be set up to have text search functions. Mine apparently does not, and I'm not sure which ones do.

So if your keywords don't work, it's probably due to the LMS.

It also appears that the keywords need to be separated by a comma when you enter them.

Does that make sense?

Thank you for  your reply Walter. Thats good to hear, clears up alot of confusion for me. I am using moodle, would you know by any change if moodle has text search functions. 

No Problem. If keywords are not currently working for you, then I would guess that Moodle is not configured for keyword search at this time or else there is a setting that needs to be adjusted.