First time user, long time fan ;) I just created a course in StoryLine, where I am using a font (attached to this thread) that just displays dots irregardless of what you press - this is to mimic typing a password.
It works fine in StoryLine, but when I publish it to a SCORM 1.2 and import it into my LMS, the dots disappear and are just replaced with a regular font.
Can someone please explain whether I'm doing something wrong or if it's just not possible to include a user specific font into the SCORM-file?
If you are concerned about the issue being within your LMS, I would advise uploading the content to SCORM Cloud for some comparison testing. This will help determine if the issue lies within the project or the LMS.
If you're able to replicate, just let us know and we can take a closer look. Feel free to share your .story file or even a sample .story slide for us to use.
I tried uploading the course to SCORM Cloud and it still types regular letters instead of points, so it looks like the problem is within the SCORM-file itself or maybe in the way that I publish the file? (LMS, SCORM 1.2, ZIP)
I've added the slide with the problem as an attachment.
Jesper, I think you are going to have to try to bundle your password font with your course, as it will not be displayed properly if the end-user does not have it installed on their system. Matthew Bibby has written a tutorial on how to do this here: https://community.articulate.com/articles/how-to-use-google-fonts-with-variable-references I'm looking for a password font on Google now, to see if there is one that would work for your project.
You're right, I couldn't find one. I was working on some javascript to embed an external font, but I couldn't get it working yesterday. I'll look at it some more today.
Jesper, the version attached here works by embedding your font as a web object. Javascript code runs when the timeline starts to add your font to the css of the document. This only works in Chrome and FF. Let me know if this is what you want and I can see about making it work across other platforms.
Hey Michael. I'm sorry for the late reply, work has been hectic ;) I am really grateful that you took the time to help me out - really appreciate it!
The file works like a dream! It's just like the font is working like in Storyline. I would absolutely love it if you could look at making it work across other platforms :D
Jesper, glad to hear that working as you needed. We all get busy so no problem there. I need to work on one other project first and then I should be able to get back to this.
It looks like I spoke too soon :( It works fine in StoryLine, but when I publish and import it into our LMS system it stille just writes regular characters...
I worked on this some the other day, but the additional font files I added caused it to not work at all anymore. I should be able to get back to this tomorrow. I'm managing a few different projects right now. Did you get a chance to try the output on different devices, outside of your LMS?
Jesper, I just tested this on SCORM Cloud and it seems to work fine playing from there. Can you check that again on your end?
Also, my original version (the one uploaded above) seems to work across all the browsers I tested: Firefox, Chrome, iPad Safari, Android, all in html5. Can you test it in any other browsers that your clients may have?
It's really weird... If I upload your single slide project to our LMS it works perfectly, but when I copy the slide over to my project it just writes normal lettering... Something in my original project is impeeding the script :(
If you copied the slide into a new project, the unique id of the web object folder probably changed. I had created a javascript trigger on that slide. If you look at the trigger, you will see the path to the web object folder on the 4th line. That needs to be edited.
If you already have the slide copied into your project, then publish the project, select "open" to open the published folder, navigate to the "story_content\WebObjects" folder. You should see a folder name there with an id for its name. Assuming you have only one web object in your project, it should be the only folder there. Copy the name of that folder (id) and replace the one in the javascript trigger with that folder name. Save and re-publish, and it should work now. Let me know if you have any problems.
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Or could the error perhaps have to do with the import into the LMS I am using? When importing, I have some settings which I do not check:
Hello Jesper and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
If you are concerned about the issue being within your LMS, I would advise uploading the content to SCORM Cloud for some comparison testing. This will help determine if the issue lies within the project or the LMS.
If you're able to replicate, just let us know and we can take a closer look. Feel free to share your .story file or even a sample .story slide for us to use.
Thank you so much for your help, Leslie :)
I tried uploading the course to SCORM Cloud and it still types regular letters instead of points, so it looks like the problem is within the SCORM-file itself or maybe in the way that I publish the file? (LMS, SCORM 1.2, ZIP)
I've added the slide with the problem as an attachment.
Jesper, I think you are going to have to try to bundle your password font with your course, as it will not be displayed properly if the end-user does not have it installed on their system. Matthew Bibby has written a tutorial on how to do this here: https://community.articulate.com/articles/how-to-use-google-fonts-with-variable-references I'm looking for a password font on Google now, to see if there is one that would work for your project.
Thanks for the suggestion, Michael :) However, I doubt that you are able to find a Google Font that looks like the password font I link to.
You're right, I couldn't find one. I was working on some javascript to embed an external font, but I couldn't get it working yesterday. I'll look at it some more today.
Jesper, the version attached here works by embedding your font as a web object. Javascript code runs when the timeline starts to add your font to the css of the document. This only works in Chrome and FF. Let me know if this is what you want and I can see about making it work across other platforms.
Hey Michael. I'm sorry for the late reply, work has been hectic ;) I am really grateful that you took the time to help me out - really appreciate it!
The file works like a dream! It's just like the font is working like in Storyline. I would absolutely love it if you could look at making it work across other platforms :D
Jesper, glad to hear that working as you needed. We all get busy so no problem there. I need to work on one other project first and then I should be able to get back to this.
No rush what so ever - thanks! :)
It looks like I spoke too soon :( It works fine in StoryLine, but when I publish and import it into our LMS system it stille just writes regular characters...
I'll test it on SCORM Cloud today to make sure it's working there.
Thank you :)
I worked on this some the other day, but the additional font files I added caused it to not work at all anymore. I should be able to get back to this tomorrow. I'm managing a few different projects right now. Did you get a chance to try the output on different devices, outside of your LMS?
Yup, I tried uploading it to SCORM Cloud, and it does the same, regular lettering instead of the password asterisks.
Ok. I'm sorry for the delay, but I've been very busy and will get back to this over the weekend.
No rush what so ever, Michael, take all the time you need :)
Jesper, I just tested this on SCORM Cloud and it seems to work fine playing from there. Can you check that again on your end?
Also, my original version (the one uploaded above) seems to work across all the browsers I tested: Firefox, Chrome, iPad Safari, Android, all in html5. Can you test it in any other browsers that your clients may have?
It's really weird... If I upload your single slide project to our LMS it works perfectly, but when I copy the slide over to my project it just writes normal lettering... Something in my original project is impeeding the script :(
If you copied the slide into a new project, the unique id of the web object folder probably changed. I had created a javascript trigger on that slide. If you look at the trigger, you will see the path to the web object folder on the 4th line. That needs to be edited.
If you already have the slide copied into your project, then publish the project, select "open" to open the published folder, navigate to the "story_content\WebObjects" folder. You should see a folder name there with an id for its name. Assuming you have only one web object in your project, it should be the only folder there. Copy the name of that folder (id) and replace the one in the javascript trigger with that folder name. Save and re-publish, and it should work now. Let me know if you have any problems.
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