Making text copyable during course

I know this is old but I also found a roundabout way to do this: 

1. Create a text entry box to hold the text you want to be copy-able (let's call it 'TextEntry').

2. Create a text variable with the text you want to be copy-able as the default value (let's call this variable 'CopyText' with the default text as 'DefaultText').

3. Create the following trigger: 

Action: Adjust variable

Variable: Set TextEntry to variable CopyText

When: When the timeline starts on 

Object: This slide

Doing these things will make the text copy-able, but will also allow users to edit and delete it on accident, which is not ideal. To remedy this, I created this additional trigger, which ensures that even if they delete/edit the text on accident, once they click out of the box, the default text will appear again. 

4. Create the following trigger: 

Action: Adjust variable

Variable: Set TextEntry to variable CopyText

When: When the variable changes

Variable: TextEntry

Conditions: If TextEntry doesn't equal variable CopyText 

I hope this is helpful!

I'm not the Seth from above, but I was searching for answers to this same question. After reading this thread I came up with a different method that works well for me. It's a little wonky, and I am still using SL1, but is saves me the step of creating anything anywhere else (i.e., using flash, etc.). Here's what I did:

I have a spot where the user types their response to an open ended question. It's a data entry field; I'll call it textEntry01.

Later on in the course I have a button for the learner to "save" their answer(s)... However, since I cannot reliably count on email from the browser, etc., I opted to make the button show a layer/sub-screen that prompts the learner and allows them to copy/paste their answers.

To allow that copy/paste on that layer/sub-screen I created a second data entry field, which I'll call textEntry02 and created a trigger so that when the timeline for that screen/layer starts it sets the variable for the textEntry02 = to the variable for textEntry01, and viola, copiable text.

I also realized I could also simply set the textEntry02 variable equal to the same variable I used for textEntry01 (meaning with the default trigger for the data entry boxes) and then I wouldn't have to use the additional trigger, but for some reason I like the idea of the second one not being able to overwrite the first.

Like I said, a little cloogey, but it seems to work for what I need, so I thought I'd share in case it helps anyone else.

A published Storyline project does not provide the ability to copy text inside the viewing area via the click+drag highlight+copy method. In fact, the only way I am able to do it is by taking a screen shot.

Could you possibly provide a bit more information as to WHY they would need to copy the information? It is possible that there is another option to this besides copy/paste....

That looks great Michael - can you show me how you did it, please? Thanks!

Hmm...maybe if you utilized web objects, it would work? If you had the text in an html document, and then embedded on the slide by way of a web object, it might allow the user to select the text.

A while ago, I had done an example of what Lesley described, see here.

Hi Michael,

This requires creating some html on a web server, yes? If so, is there any way around that?

You can very easily create this in Flash and insert it into your project. Attached is a quick file for your reference.

Cheers,

Hi all

Thanks for the replies.

Owen, I have a video playing (inserted as web object) on a slide and I want them to be able to copy and past the url in case there are any problems with getting the video to play.

I'll try some of these suggestions - thanks!