Thanks Michael! Maybe Storyline on my end was having a temper tantrum. Would you be able to help me with inserting PDFs on a resource lightbox? I've read every thread there is and nothing seems to click.
I have ~12 PDFs I want to link to from a resource lightbox slide (I'm not using the player). I don't understand where I need to save the PDFs so that they'll be accessible from the clients' end with I hand it off to them.
1. Create your slide that will be your "resources" slide that gets lightboxed.
2. On the resources slide, insert objects/text boxes/whatever the user will click to access the PDFs
3. Select/Highlight the object/textbox/whatever and insert a hyperlink:
4. Add a trigger to jump to the file. You'll click the ... icon and navigate to your PDF.
5. When you publish, the PDFs will get pulled into the published package. You'll find them inside the external files folder (which is inside your story_content folder.
6. If you test locally, the PDFs won't launch due to browser restrictions. However, once you load it to the web (as the example I sent demonstrates), the PDFs will be downloadable.
yup - as you'll see in Mike's example with the images, you'll want to place the files on your local drive and then it'll get pulled into your published output.
Thanks Ashley - I'm having a really tough time understanding HTML and HTML5. The PDFs seem to open fine in Chrome when I view the HTML5 version, but get all messed up in IE and Firefox.
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Katie,
When I test the file, the number variable is working and the button seems to be changing states just fine.
I placed a reference to the variable on the slide so you can see the incrementing taking place. File is attached.
Mike
Thanks Michael! Maybe Storyline on my end was having a temper tantrum. Would you be able to help me with inserting PDFs on a resource lightbox? I've read every thread there is and nothing seems to click.
I have ~12 PDFs I want to link to from a resource lightbox slide (I'm not using the player). I don't understand where I need to save the PDFs so that they'll be accessible from the clients' end with I hand it off to them.
Hi Katie,
No problem! I'm glad it's working.
As for the PDFs...here's an example: http://articulate-community.s3.amazonaws.com/Mike/2014/forum%20examples/PDF%20Attachments/story.html
Here's how to build it:
1. Create your slide that will be your "resources" slide that gets lightboxed.
2. On the resources slide, insert objects/text boxes/whatever the user will click to access the PDFs
3. Select/Highlight the object/textbox/whatever and insert a hyperlink:
4. Add a trigger to jump to the file. You'll click the ... icon and navigate to your PDF.
5. When you publish, the PDFs will get pulled into the published package. You'll find them inside the external files folder (which is inside your story_content folder.
6. If you test locally, the PDFs won't launch due to browser restrictions. However, once you load it to the web (as the example I sent demonstrates), the PDFs will be downloadable.
I hope this helps!
Mike
Mike, the "hyperlink" option isn't highlighted on my screen. What am I doing wrong?
Wait I got it! Do the PDFs need to be on the local drive in order for the client to access them? I'm confused on where to save the PDFs on my end.
Hi Katie,
yup - as you'll see in Mike's example with the images, you'll want to place the files on your local drive and then it'll get pulled into your published output.
Thanks Ashley - I'm having a really tough time understanding HTML and HTML5. The PDFs seem to open fine in Chrome when I view the HTML5 version, but get all messed up in IE and Firefox.
Hi Katie,
HTML5 is only supported in Chrome on your PC and in Chrome or Safari on your Mac. You'll want to review the system requirements here.
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