I am building a Glossary (good Lord what a needlessly tedious task in Storyline!) and find that the utility does not support the '&' character used in several acronyms we need for terms such as C&C, T&C, etc.
I have to resort to 'C and C' or 'T and C' which looks quite dumb. I know the reviewers are going to call me on this. I don't suppose there is a workaround ? Don't ask me to try 'C n' C' or 'P n' J' (peanut butter n' jelly)
If not lets add it to the list of wishes and fixes.
Have you tried previewing a slide and clicking on the glossary tab?
When you add a special character, such as "&" to a glossary item, the item appears in the glossary section of the player properties without (i.e. "T&C's" is displayed as "TC's") but when you preview your course, it appears correctly - I have no idea why though!
Antony Snow is right. The ampersand does show up when running the story.
To Bruce: I have been using Storyline for about two months and have been recording problems and nice-to-have features as I go along. I think this is a great tool and can be made even better with certain improvements for productivity and amping up other features especially in text formatting and animation. After my big project I will send them as suggestions.
Antony Snow is right. The ampersand does show up when running the story.
To Bruce: I have been using Storyline for about two months and have been recording problems and nice-to-have features as I go along. I think this is a great tool and can be made even better with certain improvements for productivity and amping up other features especially in text formatting and animation. After my big project I will send them as suggestions.
Similar issue on my end. I have some abbreviations and acronyms that use greek characters (alpha, beta, gamma symbols). Those show up as a '?' in the glossary. Importing them as a csv file to make it easier. The symbol is visible on the Excel spreadsheet. Imported fine. When reviewing the entries, the special characters have been revised to the question mark.
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Can you explain briefly about your issue when you are facing this?
I have tried through engage and here is the screenshot pasted below.
Please tell us if you are looking for something else.
Hi Ray,
Have you tried previewing a slide and clicking on the glossary tab?
When you add a special character, such as "&" to a glossary item, the item appears in the glossary section of the player properties without (i.e. "T&C's" is displayed as "TC's") but when you preview your course, it appears correctly - I have no idea why though!
try using two ampersands, looks like a bug
Ray,
When you raise you Feature Request, could you add as much information about the workflow issues that you perceive, as well as functionality.
Any extra pointers and suggestions like that will be hugely useful in helping craft enhancements.
Thanks
Bruce
Antony Snow is right. The ampersand does show up when running the story.
To Bruce: I have been using Storyline for about two months and have been recording problems and nice-to-have features as I go along. I think this is a great tool and can be made even better with certain improvements for productivity and amping up other features especially in text formatting and animation. After my big project I will send them as suggestions.
Ray - thanks.
Bruce
Similar issue on my end. I have some abbreviations and acronyms that use greek characters (alpha, beta, gamma symbols). Those show up as a '?' in the glossary. Importing them as a csv file to make it easier. The symbol is visible on the Excel spreadsheet. Imported fine. When reviewing the entries, the special characters have been revised to the question mark.
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