I need to extract the .story file from our published courses for editing.

Nobody else has found a way to "unbake the cake" after it is published. If you can do it, please share it here, as LOTS of people would love to be able to do that.

Hahaha!

Well, this explains why I rarely bake: I'm not good at following directions.

I was sure there was a way of extracting it from our LMS (Moodle 3.5.x). But as usual, I didn't write down the steps or ingredients so....

Thank you. I will definitely post if I find my way through the forest (switching metaphors).

A LONG time ago, I had a tool which could "unbake" a SWF back to an .FLA, but after Macromedia made fundamental changes to the codebase and released the upgrade to Flash, the output wasn't worth the investment.

I'd be interested in seeing this as well. 

When you have a Storyline file... '.story' Change the .story extension to .zip you can unpack that Storyline folder to a folder thus able to investigate the complete setup and content of a .story file.

I did a test publishing a simple sample and unzipping a .story to see whether there is some clear reference to find where crossreferences can be found from the published output. 

Quite impossible to find any spot that resembles code from the published output.
Depending on work involved, rebuilding your course is quicker i guess...

Hi Math,

Yeah, I think we've all explored the unzipped output in search for the elusive .story file or anything that might be converted in vain.

The inability to extract the .story file from my fully-functional course leaves me back to the problem that lead to this request for help:

This ONE course is not being marked completed by Storyline 3 and not reporting the completion to our LMS. Let me be clear: the error is definitely in Storyline. All other courses I've updated are working fine and we did have this problem a few months ago with this one course - it was a Storyline settings error. The programmer who worked for us then has moved on and is currently unavailable to help.

Has anyone else had this problem with a storyline project?

Have you tried uploading the ZIPped file to SCORM Cloud and testing it there? What do you see/not see?

Published files do not contain the Storyline file but I think you have already found that out. Sound like there is something wrong with the way that was has been setup for completion. If you have storyline file you can check without, you are probably going to have to rebuild.

Sounds like a good idea, Joseph, but I have never used the SCORM could. Do you have a URL?

Thank you, Phil. But as I mentioned either in this thread or another, rebuilding the course is not an option. I once considered myself rather proficient in building Storyline (1 & 2) courses. But what our programmer created from my storyboards is far beyond me.

I am using a GFE laptop with very stringent security settings. I believe that is the cause of many issues I've encountered so I'm going to try editing on my personal PC and see how that goes. But honestly, I know the issue is in Storyline, as it was previously when we had a programmer who knew how to reset the erroneous setting. :/

Thank you, all.

If anyone else has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you.

Sure do!

https://rusticisoftware.com/products/scorm-cloud/

It's a great resource to test your courses against, especially in situations like this.

If you have the file you can fix it, I doubt you can fix in the published files. Does your programmer have a copy of the file? It is easy to get the publish settings wrong and easy to fix but only if you have the file. You may be able to see what is wrong by running in debug mode or through scormcloud and checking logs, fixing is another matter.

Thank you, Joseph!

I'll give it a try.

Phil,

I might be able to get the file from the programmer via Dropbox early next week. But in the meantime I'll work on the file I do have on SCROM Cloud and on Articulate 360.