I have very basic question concerning editining. We have prepared a course and zipped it. It seems we need to implement some changes though. The output is not to be seen when opening Storyline. In order to find it you need to browse.. The problem is: when we go to folder ...output, which file should we open in order to start the course?
I assume you have only uploaded the output to a regular web server since you Zipped the output folder.
FYI: In order to upload your published output to a LMS, you need to ZIP the contents of the output folder. A file named imsmanifest.xml must be at the root of the SCORM ZIP file to work in a LMS.
To use the course, the learner will launch the story.html file.
This file will detect the browser and device type the learner is using and present the correct output for them.
Also, you cannot edit the output of a published story, you can only edit the .story file contents.
Thank you for your answer. I think I didn`t make my question clear I already published and zip my course for LMS and it works fine. However I found some mistales in the content that I need to correct. I would like to go back to output and make my corrections. I can`t see the outpuy in recently viewed, so I need to browse it. Which file should I open in order to open the whole course as a scene and make my corrections.
Hi Malgorzata! Looks like Dennis is taking care of you here. You need to edit your content in Storyline and re-publish the updated content to your LMS.
In order to modify a project created in Storyline, you need to have access to the original .STORY file that was used. Once you have access to that file, you can open it and modify the project.
If you have contact with your predecessor, it may help to reach out to them and see if they have the original file.
Sorry to hear about the trouble with this, hopefully you'll be given access to the project files that you need.
Im having some what of a relevant issue. When I edit content on a story that is not originally mine, I am able to edit all that I want. I can preview just the slide or the scene and the edit I made works perfect. BUT when I try to view my story as a whole, (using the "preview entire project" button) my edits don't appear. Its like I hadn't edited it at all. Is there a fix?
Without knowing a little more, it's difficult to say what's happening.
First, please make sure that you're working with a local project file when you modify or publish your project. If you're working on a network drive, or any other external storage, that might be causing the trouble.
Work on your local drive (your C: drive). Working on a network drive or a USB drive can cause erratic behavior, including file corruption, loss of audio, and other unexpected behavior.
You should also make sure the directory path to your project files and your published output is less than 260 characters (for example C:\Articulate).
Avoid using special characters, accents or symbols in your file names (this includes spaces and underscores).
Additional information regarding "Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces" in Windows operating systems can be found in the following Microsoft article.
Please also make sure you're running the most recent version of Storyline. Articulate Storyline Update 5 is now available. It includes bug fixes, performance improvements, and HTML5 output enhancements. Click here for details.
If that doesn't help, please try importing the original project file into a new, blank project file. The tutorial here will show you how to import existing slides into another project. This is usually a pretty quick fix if there's any corruption with the project file.
If you still have trouble with this, are you able to share the .STORY file? I'd be happy to take a look and see if I experience the same problems.
I am still having issues with it. I have tried all the things you suggested. The video is made for a JMU university. What I want to do, and have been doing, is changing the text to say "Ferris State" or "Ferris" in the spots that is says JMU. I would like to send it to you so you can see what is going wrong. When I preview the presentation in just the single slide or a scene, it works fine. but as a project whole, it reverts back to the JMU settings.
Reading back over the information you shared, it sounds like you may be viewing locally or it may be a caching issue. When you click on the "View Presentation" button, this can cause some caching issues - especially if you've viewed the project multiple times.
If you're viewing your published files locally, this may be the problem. If you view a published Storyline presentation on your local hard drive or send it to someone else to view on their local hard drive, you'll encounter security restrictions from the computer, web browser, Flash Player, and network that'll cause various features of your content to fail.
To properly test your published content and share it with others, upload it to the environment for which it was published. Please review the article below for more information:
If you do not have access to a web server or LMS for testing, you could try using SCORM Cloud.
Another option would be to use our Tempshare server. Just keep in mind that this server is only available for testing content - it is not officially supported by Articulate and all content will be removed automatically after 10 days.
In addition, you could also use Dropbox. Just remember that you'll need to place your content in the "Public" folder. Also, you'll need to make sure that the folder is enabled. To do so, click on this link.
You're always welcome to try out Articulate Online, as well - it's available for a free 30 day trial.
If you're uploading to a web server or LMS, please try clearing your browser cache. If that doesn't help, try viewing the project in a different web browser.
If you still have trouble and you'd like me to take a look, you're welcome to upload the .STORY file and attach it to this thread. If the file is too large, however, it may not post to the forums. In that case, you could upload the project file to Dropbox and share the link with me.
Okay, so I published it and viewed it in Google Chrome and it still wasn't working right. I also couldn't figure out how to do any of the other options you suggested so I'm just gonna share the file with you.
remember, the problem is that when I view the project as a whole, some text gets reverted back to "JMU" instead of saying "Ferris State" or just "Ferris".
Let me know if you understand my problem. And if you can successfully get it.
Thanks for sharing your file here. I downloaded it and took a look, and to be honest at first I was stumped cause I saw the word "Ferris" written on slide 3.4, but when I was previewing the entire course on the "same" slide it appeared with JMU. When I took a deeper look, I saw that when previewing the full course, instead of seeing 3.4 I was actually seeing the screen recording on 10.2 with the original text. There isn't a way to change the screen recording text without doing a new screen recording. Once I was able to navigate to the slide 3.4 in preview, I saw "Ferris" as expected.
That'll depend on if you need to keep the screen recording on slide 10.2. If you need the recording, but for the text to read "Ferris" instead of "JMU" you'll need to re-record with that correction as there is no way to edit the content within the screen recording. If you don't need to have the screen recording, and that's why you were updating slide 3.4, you will want to delete slide 10.2 (and other accompanying slides if needed) and then reset your triggers to point to the particular slide (3.4) or to that particular scene.
I'm not certain what you're looking for or how you'd like to navigate it, so that element will be up to you to decide.
I just want the whole project to work with "Ferris" in place of the "JMU" spots. And there are more slides than just 3.4 that get changed. almost every slide gets changed from "JMU" to "Ferris".
So if I want the whole project to work with "Ferris" do I need to delete 10.2? will that still work? or do I need to re-record 10.2? (im also not sure what that even means). Jason
Any screen recordings you've included such as slide 10.2 will need to be updated. You'll need to create a new recording (re-record) and insert it in it's place. The same will be true of images or other elements where the text was not created in Storyline I saw a number of other slides with "Ferris" on them, and those worked as expected. If you'd like to point me to a particular slide, I'm happy to check again, but all looked normal on my end.
I have lost my story file, but i need to add a link button in a slide which i have as published output. i have decompile the required swf and add my flash button, but when i replace my new swf file the property of button goes. how can i fix this issue. can anyone help me please. I really need help. Please
I'm so sorry about your file. We don't support making edits to the published output, so you would need access to the original .story file to safely edit content.
If your file was saved to your computer at one point, you may be able to locate a version of it in your temp files by following these directions:
Open this folder in Windows Explorer: %appdata%\Articulate\Storyline
Scan the contents of this folder for a file that starts with the name of your project. If you find one, copy it to your desktop. If you find more than one, copy the latest version to your desktop.
Change the file extension of the copy on your desktop from *.tmp to *.story.
Hi all, because these posts are a little out dated I wanted to chime in to see if anything has changed.
I am new within the Storyline 360 and am learning as I go. I half created a course... or presentation and published it to download it in our LMS to see how it would look in the LMS. Well, now I would actually like to finish the course. When I attempt to import it through storyline as everyone has said it doesn't appear. So I have a zip file and I cant view that either it is just a bunch of randomly named files (not a techy person at all) and I am not sure what to do next. I also tried the opening of the story_html5 in Explorer however it just keeps showing the loading symbol.
Happy to help, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨
The source file you used to create your course in Storyline 360 ends with a .story extension, similar to a PowerPoint .ppt file. You can either:
double-click that file to open Storyline 360, or
Open Storyline 360 through the desktop tray app, and you should see a Recent section on the left side. Your file should show up, and you can click to access.
The published zip files, on the other hand, are a collection of output files meant to be hosted on the web, or your LMS, for example, and cannot be used in Storyline. Hope this helps, and let us know if you have any other questions!
I have kind of similar problem. I don't have the .story file I mean source file. I edited the content using HTML tools. I wanted to run the file. I uploaded in Scorm cloud and bingo it worked. But when I tried to upload in Workday LMS its saying not a valid scorm file. Can any one help me on this? Why I am facing this issue and when its working fine in scorm cloud and not in workday LMS. Any help is much appreciated.
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Hi Malgorzata:
I assume you have only uploaded the output to a regular web server since you Zipped the output folder.
FYI: In order to upload your published output to a LMS, you need to ZIP the contents of the output folder. A file named imsmanifest.xml must be at the root of the SCORM ZIP file to work in a LMS.
To use the course, the learner will launch the story.html file.
This file will detect the browser and device type the learner is using and present the correct output for them.
Also, you cannot edit the output of a published story, you can only edit the .story file contents.
Best Regards,
Dennis Hall
Thank you for your answer. I think I didn`t make my question clear
I already published and zip my course for LMS and it works fine. However I found some mistales in the content that I need to correct. I would like to go back to output and make my corrections. I can`t see the outpuy in recently viewed, so I need to browse it. Which file should I open in order to open the whole course as a scene and make my corrections.
Hi Malgorzata:
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To edit your course you open the Storyline source file. The .story file that you created it in.
If you created the course in Storyline, you go back to Sotryline to edit the course and republish.
Here is a link to help you learn Storyline: http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/getting-started-with-articulate-storyline.aspx
Best Regards,
Dennis Hall
Hi Malgorzata! Looks like Dennis is taking care of you here. You need to edit your content in Storyline and re-publish the updated content to your LMS.
Thanks for you assistance here Dennis
Hi all.
I'm encountering a similar situation to Malgorzata.
I dont have access to the original Storyline source file. (My predecessor would have had access)
All I have is a zipped version and its also on our LMS, Cornerstone.
How do we edit once content is outdated?
Thanks.
Hi Ayesha and welcome to E-Learning Heroes,
In order to modify a project created in Storyline, you need to have access to the original .STORY file that was used. Once you have access to that file, you can open it and modify the project.
If you have contact with your predecessor, it may help to reach out to them and see if they have the original file.
Sorry to hear about the trouble with this, hopefully you'll be given access to the project files that you need.
Best,
Christine
Thanks Christine.
Hi Ayesha,
You're very welcome :)
Please let us know if we can help with anything else.
Have a great day and welcome again!
Christine
Im having some what of a relevant issue. When I edit content on a story that is not originally mine, I am able to edit all that I want. I can preview just the slide or the scene and the edit I made works perfect. BUT when I try to view my story as a whole, (using the "preview entire project" button) my edits don't appear. Its like I hadn't edited it at all. Is there a fix?
Hi Jason,
Without knowing a little more, it's difficult to say what's happening.
First, please make sure that you're working with a local project file when you modify or publish your project. If you're working on a network drive, or any other external storage, that might be causing the trouble.
Additional information regarding "Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces" in Windows operating systems can be found in the following Microsoft article.
Please also make sure you're running the most recent version of Storyline. Articulate Storyline Update 5 is now available. It includes bug fixes, performance improvements, and HTML5 output enhancements. Click here for details.
If that doesn't help, please try importing the original project file into a new, blank project file. The tutorial here will show you how to import existing slides into another project. This is usually a pretty quick fix if there's any corruption with the project file.
If you still have trouble with this, are you able to share the .STORY file? I'd be happy to take a look and see if I experience the same problems.
Thanks!
I am still having issues with it. I have tried all the things you suggested. The video is made for a JMU university. What I want to do, and have been doing, is changing the text to say "Ferris State" or "Ferris" in the spots that is says JMU. I would like to send it to you so you can see what is going wrong. When I preview the presentation in just the single slide or a scene, it works fine. but as a project whole, it reverts back to the JMU settings.
How do I send it to you?
Hi Jason,
Reading back over the information you shared, it sounds like you may be viewing locally or it may be a caching issue. When you click on the "View Presentation" button, this can cause some caching issues - especially if you've viewed the project multiple times.
If you're viewing your published files locally, this may be the problem. If you view a published Storyline presentation on your local hard drive or send it to someone else to view on their local hard drive, you'll encounter security restrictions from the computer, web browser, Flash Player, and network that'll cause various features of your content to fail.
To properly test your published content and share it with others, upload it to the environment for which it was published. Please review the article below for more information:
Publishing and Sharing Articulate Storyline Content
If you do not have access to a web server or LMS for testing, you could try using SCORM Cloud.
Another option would be to use our Tempshare server. Just keep in mind that this server is only available for testing content - it is not officially supported by Articulate and all content will be removed automatically after 10 days.
In addition, you could also use Dropbox. Just remember that you'll need to place your content in the "Public" folder. Also, you'll need to make sure that the folder is enabled. To do so, click on this link.
You're always welcome to try out Articulate Online, as well - it's available for a free 30 day trial.
If you're uploading to a web server or LMS, please try clearing your browser cache. If that doesn't help, try viewing the project in a different web browser.
If you still have trouble and you'd like me to take a look, you're welcome to upload the .STORY file and attach it to this thread. If the file is too large, however, it may not post to the forums. In that case, you could upload the project file to Dropbox and share the link with me.
If you need to keep the project file private, you're welcome to use this method to submit the files directly to me, or you can send it to our support engineers.
Thanks, Jason!
Okay, so I published it and viewed it in Google Chrome and it still wasn't working right. I also couldn't figure out how to do any of the other options you suggested so I'm just gonna share the file with you.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pk1vjes0o5imcx0/Is%20It%20Real%20-%20Ferris%20State.story
remember, the problem is that when I view the project as a whole, some text gets reverted back to "JMU" instead of saying "Ferris State" or just "Ferris".
Let me know if you understand my problem. And if you can successfully get it.
Thanks
Hi Jason,
Thanks for sharing your file here. I downloaded it and took a look, and to be honest at first I was stumped cause I saw the word "Ferris" written on slide 3.4, but when I was previewing the entire course on the "same" slide it appeared with JMU. When I took a deeper look, I saw that when previewing the full course, instead of seeing 3.4 I was actually seeing the screen recording on 10.2 with the original text. There isn't a way to change the screen recording text without doing a new screen recording. Once I was able to navigate to the slide 3.4 in preview, I saw "Ferris" as expected.
If you need any other help, please let us know!
So what steps exactly do I need to take to correct this?
Jason
Hi Jason,
That'll depend on if you need to keep the screen recording on slide 10.2. If you need the recording, but for the text to read "Ferris" instead of "JMU" you'll need to re-record with that correction as there is no way to edit the content within the screen recording. If you don't need to have the screen recording, and that's why you were updating slide 3.4, you will want to delete slide 10.2 (and other accompanying slides if needed) and then reset your triggers to point to the particular slide (3.4) or to that particular scene.
I'm not certain what you're looking for or how you'd like to navigate it, so that element will be up to you to decide.
I just want the whole project to work with "Ferris" in place of the "JMU" spots. And there are more slides than just 3.4 that get changed. almost every slide gets changed from "JMU" to "Ferris".
So if I want the whole project to work with "Ferris" do I need to delete 10.2? will that still work? or do I need to re-record 10.2? (im also not sure what that even means).
Jason
Hi Jason,
Any screen recordings you've included such as slide 10.2 will need to be updated. You'll need to create a new recording (re-record) and insert it in it's place. The same will be true of images or other elements where the text was not created in Storyline I saw a number of other slides with "Ferris" on them, and those worked as expected. If you'd like to point me to a particular slide, I'm happy to check again, but all looked normal on my end.
okay, so how do I create screen recordings?
Jason
Hi Jason,
There is a great set of tutorials here on how to start and edit screen recordings. I would begin with that information and if you need additional guidance after that please let me know.
I have lost my story file, but i need to add a link button in a slide which i have as published output. i have decompile the required swf and add my flash button, but when i replace my new swf file the property of button goes. how can i fix this issue. can anyone help me please. I really need help. Please
Hey Pankaj!
I'm so sorry about your file. We don't support making edits to the published output, so you would need access to the original .story file to safely edit content.
If your file was saved to your computer at one point, you may be able to locate a version of it in your temp files by following these directions:
I hope that's helpful!
Hi all, because these posts are a little out dated I wanted to chime in to see if anything has changed.
I am new within the Storyline 360 and am learning as I go. I half created a course... or presentation and published it to download it in our LMS to see how it would look in the LMS. Well, now I would actually like to finish the course. When I attempt to import it through storyline as everyone has said it doesn't appear. So I have a zip file and I cant view that either it is just a bunch of randomly named files (not a techy person at all) and I am not sure what to do next. I also tried the opening of the story_html5 in Explorer however it just keeps showing the loading symbol.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Hi Christina,
Happy to help, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨
The source file you used to create your course in Storyline 360 ends with a .story extension, similar to a PowerPoint .ppt file. You can either:
The published zip files, on the other hand, are a collection of output files meant to be hosted on the web, or your LMS, for example, and cannot be used in Storyline. Hope this helps, and let us know if you have any other questions!
Hello,
I have kind of similar problem. I don't have the .story file I mean source file. I edited the content using HTML tools. I wanted to run the file. I uploaded in Scorm cloud and bingo it worked. But when I tried to upload in Workday LMS its saying not a valid scorm file. Can any one help me on this? Why I am facing this issue and when its working fine in scorm cloud and not in workday LMS. Any help is much appreciated.
Regards,
Sandeep