file naming conventions

Hi Karl,

File name and file path length is always going to be an issue if you exceed the 260 character limit, which is a limit imposed by Microsoft Windows. (Publishing adds characters to the file path you selected. If it exceeds 260 characters, your published output will be incomplete.)

The rest of what you're referring to comes from this Microsoft Article, and you can use underscores (I do regularly in place of spaces - which I think was part of Karen's issue if you look at her file path you'll see the % symbol added) and numerics but I would use any symbols, accented letters, etc. For example I saw a course that had a file path similar to "Course name.En.story" and the space and the extra period cause issues with the course. 

Do you have a course with an unusual file name that is causing difficulty? I'd suggest trying to rename the file to see if that helps at all. 

No, what threw me was when she said that it worked when she excluded underscores. I've never had a problem with that sort of thing and prefer to use underscores rather than spaces for files that are going online (i.e. better readability and no % signs added to file names).

As for the file path length - Microsoft really should have sorted that out by now!

Just thought I'd better check just in case.

Thanks

Tell Microsoft that.  

As for file names, everyone has their own style...for me, I often won't use spaces or underscores, but instead label courses like "ThisIsMyStorylineCourseName.story"  

To each their own.  

Ashely, just to clarify. You change/rename the folder name that Storyline creates based on the course title to one that has no spaces?

Hi Nita,

I save my .story files as such, and then when I go to publish my course I can also change the published output folder name or adjust the title within the publish window settings (less desirable as it's typically public facing somewhere such as in your LMS). I generally do it as when I load it into my webserver if there are spaces (instead of underscores) those are treated as % when I look at the link in my web server which is messier looking. You don't need to set your files up as such though - just avoid the special characters, diacritical marks and accents and you should be ok. 

Thanks Ashley, i was concerned that i would "break" the course if I changed the output folder name or lose my audio as i had done in the past with Presenter.  'N

Well, you can use long path tool for such problems.