How to import files to Storyline?

Hi Leslie

Welcome to the forums.

First you need to unzip the zipfiles that contain the engage elements.

Insert your interactions

1. Launch Story line
2. Open a the StoryLine project in which you want to import the Engage files
3. Click on the Articluate Ball (top left corner)
4. In the menu choose import
5. From the submenu you choose Engage
   You will be prompted for the engage file to import
   Storyline will start with the import preparation
   Stroyline will then prompt you in which scene you want to import the Engage Interaction, By default new scene.
6. Once it is finished, you repeat the exercise for yhe other Engage Interactions

Add PDF files

1. Open your Storyline project
2. Click on The player icon in the top menu bar
   player configuration window will open
3. First tick the resources tick box
4. In the top menu, you choose Resources
5. You get an empty resources window (unless the .story file you received already has some)
6. Click on the bottom left icon (add)
7. system prompts you for an URL or a file
8. Select file
9. browse for the PDF's you received and add the first one
10. repeat this for the other pdf.

The PDFs will appear undr the resources meny-item in the player

Cheers

Geert

Thanks very much, Geert!  

I appreciate your help and I'm afraid I do not have Engage installed. An instructional designer created this course and some Engage files to run portions of the course -otherwise in Storyline. 

When I attempt your instructions, I get an error message that I cannot proceed without Engage.

I can open the course and it runs fine, but it's actually not open in Storyline itself, since none of the menu bars (or even the Articulate ball) are visible.  I'm not sure how it's running to be honest, it's like shell, I can't edit it at all....

Does this provide any further insight into my challenge?

Leslie

I'm noT sure that you need to have Engage installed.

You can SL independently from Engage so I assume you can just import it

Hi Leslie, 

You're correct. In order to successfully import Engage interactions into Storyline, you must have Articulate Engage '09 installed and activated on your computer. 

Hi Peter, can Leslie insert the Engage interaction as a web object without having the Engage application installed?

You might be right, Nancy. 

If you already have a link to the published Engage courses, you should be able to bring them in as a web object within Storyline, no matter what was used to publish it. If you have those published Engage courses online already, give it a shot, Leslie, and let us know if it works. Or, I'd be happy to test it later this afternoon when I have a chance to uninstall my Engage. 

Hi there,

The sections of the course which were produced in Engage were embedded (I guess as a web object) within Storyline. I was able to publish the whole thing in my LMS this morning. I believe the problem yesterday was that the files were sent to me as .zip rather than .story.

Anyway, I sooooo appreciate your help and concern for a stranger, and all's well that ends well!

I'm sure to have more questions soon.

Thanks again!

Hello,

I have tried importing the circle interactivity from engage to storyline and storyline has imported it as an image. Please can anyone advice how to create an interactivity with this? I need to create a circle interactivity with storyline for my project.

Thank you very much

Chandrani

Hi Chandrani!

Just to be sure, have you tried publishing and viewing your course post-publish yet? Engage interactions are imported into Storyline as web objects, so you'll need to publish them to view them properly. Simply previewing the course may omit some functionality. 

Let us know

Please suggest if i can import xml data into storyline

There is no way to import XML data into Storyline directly.  You can do it indirectly by importing XML into a Flash file and then inserting the Flash file into Storyline. Of course this solution will not run in html5.

Hi - I am having an issue importing an engage '09 interaction into Storyline. I have followed the steps in this thread as well as in the tutorial. It seems to import fine and recognizes as an engage interaction which I cannot view in preview mode. However, when I puplish it and try to access/play it I just get a blank slide.

Hi Francesca,

Because Engage interactions are inserted as web objects, they won't be viewable during preview. In regards to your published version, how have you published and tested the content? You'll want to test within the intended environment, as otherwise you could encounter some local security restrictions that may cause parts of your content to fail.  Some other things to check that could cause your Engage interaction to not play are included here. 

Ashley - thanks - this was helpful. I just started over from scrtach and made sure everything was in the same file/directory. I still was never able to run it on the web (as a stand alone - not on a web server) but when I added it to our LMS it worked perfectly! Thanks again!

Thanks Francesca for the update, and if you're looking to properly test, you'll want to do so within the intended environment so if you're publishing for LMS, placing it within your LMS or even running from a site such as SCORM Cloud is an option.  If you're publishing for web, you can use one of the options included in this article to load your course to and test.