Jump to URL/File

Welcome to E-Learning Heroes, Andrew!

Are you viewing the published course locally, by any chance? If you view published Storyline content on your local hard drive or send it to someone else to view on their local hard drive, you'll encounter security restrictions from the computer, web browser, Flash Player, and network that'll cause various features of your content to fail.

Christine,

I haven't uploaded it to the LMS server. I am just trying to test the browser locally on my machine. When I view the story after it was published, it will not jump to the URLs. It wont do anything. It acts as though the button doesn't have a trigger on it at all....

Hi Andrew,

I'm afraid that may be the problem. Do you have access to an LMS or web server for testing? 

You can always try using Tempshare, if you'd like. 

Or, if you're able to post the .STORY file, I'd be happy to publish, upload and test the course for you.

Thanks!

Here is the .story file.

FYI, the links will go the our intranet so you won't be able to view the sites but if they launch, then that will be a vast improvement....

I just uploaded it to the Tempshare site and it works thee. Does that mean it will work on my LMS when I publish it?

Andrew,

It's quite possible, if it's working in Tempshare. I've seen a lot of issues with different types of hyperlinks (URLs or file paths) that come up because of local restrictions. So it's definitely a good idea to try and test it somewhere on the web that's "live". 

I took a look at your file - gotta say, love the way you have the menus displaying here. Very creative! Nice job :)

I uploaded the course to Articulate Online for testing (I'll remove the link as soon as we're finished). The links obviously don't display the intranet pages you've inserted, but I am getting new browser windows/attempts to load the pages. 

Take a look:

Upload Test for Andrew

Now, I totally understand that some companies don't want to have content added to their LMS during the testing phase. However, if you're able to, I would definitely suggest testing it there - since that's where you're going to have it in the final phase of your project. If this is absolutely impossible, you can continue using Tempshare, but keep in mind its purpose is only for testing, not for long-term hosting or full features, basically there may be some kinks.

Another alternative is to use Articulate Online for testing. There's a free trial available, as well, so you'll have plenty of time to try it out and see if that works for you. 

I hope this helps :)