Name on Quiz Report & how to email report automatically

Nov 03, 2014

Hi,

I'm new to Storyline and have taken on a project that someone else started.  We have a 10 question quiz at the end of the training package and I need to get the person's name to show on the report - can anyone advise how I can do this please?

Also, we would then like to be able to press a button and the report is automatically emailed to our HR Dept.  Is this possible?

Any help appreciated :)

8 Replies
Shaun Thornton

Hi Audrey, from what i have seen and read you cannot get storyline to automatically email someone. You can get it to open the email and have it complete the To:, Subject: and Content of the email but not click the Send button. The user will still be able to amend anything within the email before sending it.

I use the following Javascript to do this:

var email="yourAddress@email.com";
var subject="subject line";
var body_start="How you want to begin your body.";
var mailto_link='mailto:'+email+'?subject='+subject+'&body='+body_start;
win=window.open(mailto_link,'emailWin');

Insert a trigger to execute javascript on say a click of a button that you create on the slide. Maybe call the button Submit Results or something.

You can get the users name into the course by inserting a Text Entry field early in your course where the user has to enter their name. Storyline will then create a variable called TextEntry. Now anywhere in your course if you insert a text box and type in %TextEntry% it will replace this text in the published version with whatever the user entered. This doesnt stop them typing in something other than their name but usually employees don't tend to mess around too much.

You can pull names directly from an LMS so the user doesn't have to type anything in but i am still trying to get this to work for me so wouldnt want to steer you down the wrong path.

Shaun.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Audrey,

There isn't an email results trigger in Storyline as Shaun mentioned. 

You may also want to look into the "print results" feature that can be included on a results slide. You can include an option for the user to enter their name as well - and when they print it Storyline will generate an HTML page that they can choose to print or save. 

Bjarne O

For our current courses (not developed in storyline) we have programmed a small web-service, that takes a diploma template pdf and adds student name via the url - like this:

http://ourserver.com/diploma.asp?courseid=123&student=somename

We haven't tested that approach with storyline yet, but I guess that's a viable approach as well.

Bjarne

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