How to force the LMS to call index_lms_html5.html?

Hey Dave,

Try this:

• Delete story.html from your published output
• Rename story_html5.html to story.html
• Zip, upload, test thoroughly.

It should work, although the course will fail to launch if viewed in a browser that doesn't support HTML5 and it  won't even show the 'unsupported' message that it normally does...

Hope that helps!

Edit: See Phil's comment here.

Thanks, Matt but that doesn't work. The LMS alerts as a non-critical error that the story_html5.html file is missing. (It is referenced in the manifest file). We published it anyway and the course wouldn't load in any browser. You also can't modify both "story" HTML files and get the course to load in IE, Chrome or Firefox.

On the subject of LMS being the correct domain for certificates, I would suggest to the Articulate staff to look at what some of them offer (#keywordSuck). With so many IDs posting about certificates, maybe it's time to look at giving us what we need. We're designers. We wouldn't  design something we didn't need and with so many workarounds that don't work... Just sayin'.

Captivate allowed us to have a certificate slide but we needed a special script to allow us to print it without printing the player too. We're trying to use what we've learned from this article https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/storyline-2-example-generating-a-pdf-certificate-for-users-who-successfully-complete-a-quiz-html5 and this article https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/populate-a-pdf-from-storyline  to have the course call a script to populate a certificate with a decent-looking design, background, logo in a new HTML window so the user can print or download it.

It would really suck to have a certification program that results in Times New Roman, black, 14 point, centered on a white background, half-page, portrait orientation. #Ewwww

That's interesting, my quick test on SCORM Cloud worked as I expected, but I didn't test it thoroughly. You could remove the reference to the story_html5.html file from the manifest or alternatively just dump a blank file with that name in the output...

You might be better to dig around in the story.html file and change it to always serve up the html5 version. I don't know exactly what needs to be changed to achieve that, but with a bit of fiddling you should be able to figure it out.

I agree with Articulate on this point, but I do understand that not everyone thinks along the same line. You should submit a feature request (if you haven't already) and let Articulate know that this is important to you. 

I'm excited about PDFMake, I think it is a great solution for people wanting to create a PDF from within Storyline. You do need some coding knowledge to get it looking how you want, but it's all outlined in their documentation so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

Alternatively, you could post a job on a site such a Fiverr and find someone who is comfortable with CSS to help design your certificate. 

Life's too short to guess. We're moving on.

Fair enough, all the best Dave.

Yeah. We already have it looking awesome. Works great locally but not in the LMS. Like I said, moving on.

Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse brevity and mistypes.

Dave H.

Matts suggestion would work with a little modification, delete Story.html, duplicate Story_html5.sotry and rename duplicate to story.html

Hi,
I have successfully created an html certificate that carries name values from SL. Hope its useful to you.

Thanks everyone for popping in to share :)

Bruce,

This is elegant in its simplicity. Definitely something to consider as an alternative.

Many thanks for chiming in. Cheers.

It looks like this thread is a little on the old side but this 6 character change does the trick for me:

1) Publish to LMS with the HTML5 option turned on.

2) Navigate to the published folder and open the imsmanifest.xml file.

3) Scroll down to the resources node. The first node within the resources node <resource ... is where the edit needs to happen.

<resources>
<resource identifier="__62mecffOHR9_course_id_RES" type="webcontent" href="index_lms_html5.html" adlcp:scormtype="sco">

4) Change index_lms.html to index_lms_html5.html.

The beauty of this change is it doesn't make your manifest differ from your contents. Some LMS are persnickety about manifest contents. 

I'll try it! Thanks.

Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse brevity and mistypes.

Dave H.

I've recently been having similar issues with Cornerstone OnDemand and HTML5 output. Were you able to use Steve's workaround in your course, Dave?

I'm working on a new product module now.
I'll let you know when I publish it. Probably around November 9.

Thank you

Cool! Thank you, Dave!

Thanks for popping in to assist Dave! Just wanted to let you know that replying to the forums via e-mail attaches your signature. You are welcome to pop in and edit if needed.

Hi Rachel

if Dave's fix doesn't work let me know, we make changes to the index_lms.html to force html5

Doesn't work in Cornerstone LMS. We are now trying to trick the LMS into thinking the browser is not Flash-compatible or that the device is mobile (ergo no Flash) but that is difficult.

Hi Dave, I hate to repeat myself from a previous post but In scormcloud changing the index file to call the story

Doesn't work in Cornerstone LMS. But here's what we've found.

So far, we know that imsmanifest.xml, meta.xml and story.js all work together along with browsersniff.js to determine if the Flash version can load (which is what Articulate wants to happen.)

We opened Chrome with the Flash plugin turned off and without any file changes or renaming or deleting, the HTML 5 version loads. Anytime we try editing files to point to "_html5.x_ we get a big white window with nothing loading in it.

So... the only way to force HTML5 to load is to have a non-flash-compatible browser.

Phil, I'm curious, when your content loads in scormcloud, have you tried right-clicking on the window to see if it shows Flash settings and version or just HTML commands?

To clarify, you've tried changing the webcontent reference in imsmanifest to point to the index_lms_html5.html file and it's loading a blank page? I've tested this in multiple systems and it's worked consistently. Don't have access to cornerstone but I can't see why it would work any differently. The LMS is *supposed* to load the file designated in the manifest file. Double-check to make sure the modification is made in the right spot and that it's entered to point to the correct file.

When looking at the browser console, what errors appear?

Definitely the HTML5 version not sure if this will work for you https://cloud.scorm.com/sc/InvitationConfirmEmail?publicInvitationId=674067cc-c5bd-4fb4-b700-742d573a6f65

I only edited one line in the index

Looks just like yours but without any content