I'm interested in hearing recommendations for arranging and managing large Storyline projects. One of the scenes I'm building is already over 300 slides, it will consist of several demos followed by a "try-it-yourself" for each topic.
Is it okay to keep everything as one very large project or create separate projects for each scene?
I think it depends somewhat on your own organizational preferences. But for me:
Organizationally, I'd want each demo/try to have its own scene.It just makes it easier to "see" - kind of like a Table of Contents.
Also, since Storyline currently only allows you to preview a slide, a scene, or the entire project, during the development process it's often more efficient to break content up into scenes.
Thanks for the reply. I don't think I did a good job fully explaining the content of my project. The 300 (and growing) slides make up the project and I have them segmented into separate scenes. I've never built a project of this size before, but from what you said I might be doing it as expected.
I think the question is more around overall file size - is there a limit to the amount of slides Storyline will tolerate before issues arise?
For example, when I worked with Captivate, there was a recomendation (from Adobe) that you not exceed 350 slides (which was later increased, but as good practice we tried to keep it below). When a project grew beyond, we split it into two projects.
The answer I see most frequently in the forums is that it's not so much slide count, as how much media is incorporated. Ashley answered this question in February; and, she's included a link to another thread with more details.
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Hi Renee,
I think it depends somewhat on your own organizational preferences. But for me:
Organizationally, I'd want each demo/try to have its own scene.It just makes it easier to "see" - kind of like a Table of Contents.
Also, since Storyline currently only allows you to preview a slide, a scene, or the entire project, during the development process it's often more efficient to break content up into scenes.
Hi Rebecca,
Thanks for the reply. I don't think I did a good job fully explaining the content of my project. The 300 (and growing) slides make up the project and I have them segmented into separate scenes. I've never built a project of this size before, but from what you said I might be doing it as expected.
Renee
Hi Renee,
Sorry if I misunderstood your question. Was there something else you were trying to sort out?
I think the question is more around overall file size - is there a limit to the amount of slides Storyline will tolerate before issues arise?
For example, when I worked with Captivate, there was a recomendation (from Adobe) that you not exceed 350 slides (which was later increased, but as good practice we tried to keep it below). When a project grew beyond, we split it into two projects.
Hi Renee and Lance,
The answer I see most frequently in the forums is that it's not so much slide count, as how much media is incorporated. Ashley answered this question in February; and, she's included a link to another thread with more details.
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