I am having a issue with hyperlinks in my Articulate file. I published it and shared it with others in dropbox but the links will not open. The links work fine when trying to open on my computer the issue is with other computers. The links go to files such as Microsoft office and PDFs. Has anybody else bumped into this issue? If so can you please provide some insight. Thanks
You're running into the Flash Player Security restriction. When running locally, by default, the Flash player blocks any communication with the browser. To fix this, you can use any of these methods:
1) Find the Flash Player Security Settings Manager by searching Google and add the published output folder (on the user's machine that encounters the issue) to the whitelist.
2) Publish to CD and run the course using the EXE.
3) Run the file from a web server. Including a publicly shared dropbox link or other web host. The security feature doesn't block communication when run this way.
Two ways to share on dropbox. One is sync. The other is copying a public link. Simply sharing won't deploy as an http:// link. For example, this comes from a web server by sharing the public link.
My dropbox folder is publicly shared. How do I copy the copy link as opposed to sharing because with storyline you need to the entire output folder for content to display? So I would not be able to just share the HTML file.
Make sure your published output is in the Public folder of your Dropbox output. Then right-click the Story.html file and select Dropbox > Copy Public Link.
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Hi Jarrett!
Be sure that you are adding the links as explained here.
I would also be sure that you are uploading all of the output files as explained here as the documents should be in that package.
If you need us to take a look, you are welcome to share the .story file.
Hey Leslie,
Thanks for the reply. I have done both of those steps but to no avail. What pops on my colleagues computer is this
when trying to access the files.
You're running into the Flash Player Security restriction. When running locally, by default, the Flash player blocks any communication with the browser. To fix this, you can use any of these methods:
1) Find the Flash Player Security Settings Manager by searching Google and add the published output folder (on the user's machine that encounters the issue) to the whitelist.
2) Publish to CD and run the course using the EXE.
3) Run the file from a web server. Including a publicly shared dropbox link or other web host. The security feature doesn't block communication when run this way.
4) Run the HTML5 version.
Looks like Steve beat me to it :)
Thanks guys Ill try out these options
Just let us know if you need anything further. I would have advised Step 3 based on what it sounds like you are trying to do here :)
Step 3 was the first thing I tried. Dropbox did not work but uploading it to a webserver did. Any ideas on why dropbox did not work?
Is your dropbox folder publicly shared? That may be what was causing the security issue.
Two ways to share on dropbox. One is sync. The other is copying a public link. Simply sharing won't deploy as an http:// link. For example, this comes from a web server by sharing the public link.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19820702/bookCover_proto_v5.png
My dropbox folder is publicly shared. How do I copy the copy link as opposed to sharing because with storyline you need to the entire output folder for content to display? So I would not be able to just share the HTML file.
Make sure your published output is in the Public folder of your Dropbox output. Then right-click the Story.html file and select Dropbox > Copy Public Link.
Thanks guys it worked out for me
Glad to hear it Jarrett, thanks for the update :)
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