Importing SL courses with Quiz Results not keeping Variable Names?
Jul 30, 2015
I'm working on a course right now that will have several different lessons, each with their own short quiz. To save time, I have broken up the work and have had another developer help me create the lessons in it's own SL file so I can import it later into the main module.
The problem I'm running into is with the quiz results variable names. We renamed each of the variables to match the lesson so that I can find them later and add them to the main module in a progress tracker. (Ex. Lesson 1 Quiz variables would be renamed Lesson1Results.Score.percent). When I import them into the main module, some of the variables are not keeping the names we gave them. Sometimes they will get imported and use the same results variable as the previous one imported or default to the original name (Results.Score.Percent).
Is this a bug? Is there a way to make sure this doesn't happen?
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Hi Jerson!
You may find that your variables are unexpectedly renamed when you import slides from one project into another. This issue was fixed in Update 5 for Articulate Storyline. See this article for more information.
I'm on Update 5. I did a quick test to make sure it wasn't anything in my files. Created two storyline projects, created one questions and quiz results in each. Didn't rename the variables to get standard results. When I imported one module into the other, I received a warning that the project has the same named variables and gave me two options, keep them as is, or rename it. I chose to rename it. The new quiz results used Results2.Score.Percent.
In the same module that was importated. I renamed it to OGResults.Score.Percent. Saved it, closed it, then imported it. Didn't get the warning, but instead of using the variables OGResults.... It used Results2..... OG results was not pulled in.
Thanks for the update. Could you share that test with our support team here so that we can take a look and get this reported?
I deleted it once I tried it out. But it was just two new blank projects.
Hmm.. now it seems that it is overwriting existing variables with the new ones (when it keeps it the incoming variable names). So I had a two quizzes pointing to the same quiz variables.
There is some really weird stuff going on. Do each of the quiz results slide have some kind of unique identifier? When creating the individual lessons, I used a template so my guess that if the application is detecting the "same" results page, it goes a little berzerk.
Hi Jerson! Since each result slide generates it's own variables, this is probably what you are running into. If you'd like us to take a look, you can share as I've indicated above, but this does not sound like a setup we would support.
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