How to publish a Storyline 3 Project after Flash stops?

Jan 26, 2021

Dear Friends, Please help ........
I have a project designed on Storyline 3, and I want to publish it after support stops for all Flash activities early this year. The project is purely educational for my students, and I want to convert it into an executable file that can be executed on several computers, noting that I do not see in front of me in the options when publishing any choice through which I can convert my project to HTML. May I have any help, please?

6 Replies

Judy Nollet
Hero

3 years ago01/26/21 at 3:40 pm (UTC)

Hi, Wagih,

You can change the format for publishing.

When you get to the Publish window, click the current Formats item to open the Publish Formats window:

In the Publish Formats window, move the slider to the "HTML5" position. Then click the OK button.

At that point, complete the publishing process.

3 years ago01/26/21 at 9:53 pm (UTC)

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3 years ago01/27/21 at 1:57 am (UTC)

Thank you so much Judy. I did it and it worked.

Adi Unger

3 years ago01/27/21 at 7:56 am (UTC)

How can I tell, looking on the zip file, if it was published as html5/flash or as flash/html5?

3 years ago02/01/21 at 4:11 pm (UTC)

Hello, Adi!

Great question.

There isn't a way to tell whether the HTML5/Flash or the Flash/HTML5 format was selected just by looking at the published zip file. You can, however, tell which format was used by viewing the hosted content in a web browser [update: or by using the technique below].

HTML5/Flash: This publishes a course as HTML5 first with Flash fallback. Learners will see HTML5 output if they're using a supported HTML5 browser. If not, they'll see Flash output.
Flash/HTML5: This publishes a course as Flash first with HTML5 fallback. Learners will see Flash output if they're using a Flash-enabled browser. If not, they'll see HTML5 output.

Here's a quick video demo for a visual guide. Let me know if that helps!

✎ Related Resource: How the End of Flash Affects Articulate Apps and Courses

3 years ago02/01/21 at 5:23 pm (UTC)

Thanks Katie

Meanwhile, I received the following response from Articulate Support:

If you'd like to know if a zip file was published as html5/flash or as flash/html5, you can follow these steps:

1. Unzip the file then you can look for the index

3 years ago02/01/21 at 6:36 pm (UTC)

Hi again, Adi!

Great move to open a support case as well, and I'm glad our team found a technique to unlock that! I'll share Dexter's trick below:

If you'd like to know whether a zip file was published in the html5/flash or flash/html5 format, try these steps:

1. Unzip the file and then look for the index_lms.html file.

2. Open that file using a text editor and search for runtimeOrder.

3. If the runtimeOrder line looks like the following string, then it was published as html5/flash:

runtimeOrder: [{"type":"html5","url":"index_lms_html5.html"},{"type":"flash","url":"index_lms_flash.html"}]

If it looks like the strong below, then it was published as flash/html5:

runtimeOrder: [{"type":"flash","url":"index_lms_flash.html"},{"type":"html5","url":"index_lms_html5.html"}]