Extending Storyline 360 with JS

Hello everybody,

 

while me and my colleagues really like Storyline 360 for what it is, we often come to a point where requirements exceed its capabilities. For instance, a lot of customers asked for more readable slide notes, stating the panel on the left was too narrow to comfortably read. I implemented a wider panel that users could put on top of the slide and resize to their needs. To do this I had to resort to what can only be called hacking the DOM. Over time I wrote multiple of these hacks and now I'm always looking forward to updates because that means I can get them working again </sarcasm>.

 

As far as I'm aware Storyline's API currently consists of two functions, which is actually less than in SL2. I'd humbly ask that you (the developer) provide a better way for third party code to interact with Storyline that doesn't break every other update, like an event-listener mechanism etc.

I can understand if you don't want to support and maintain a function most users won't use or even notice, but I'd be surprised if there isn't a market for well written and maintained third-party extensions.

 

Kind regards,
Dominik

 

PS: I absolutely don't speak for my employer, I'm just a user.