Privacy for our URL

Sheila, 

Are you referring to the Articulate Tempshare URL?

Mike

Hi Mike,

I am wanting to publish a project I have been working on in Storyline and then send the web address to clients for their viewing. What I was wondering is there a way to stop them forwarding the web address onto other people and claiming it as their own?

Thanks.

Boy...

That's a tough one (and a breach of ethics if that's why they'd do).  My quick thoughts on the easiest and most cost effective solution (read free) is to:

1. Publish the link out to your personal (or company) branded web site.  This way your company name would be in the URL.  

2. Place some type of watermark or logo branding with your information in the demo.  This could be a logo in the logo panel, a small watermark on each slide, or an opening or ending slide with your information.  You should be able to do this in an elegant enough manner so that it doesn't scream "Don't Steal This!!".

Now, this doesn't stop them from forwarding the address, but it does make it hard to pass it off as their own work.

The next step up would be to put it behind a password protected wall of some type (a project site or CMS), but that's much more time consuming and potentially adds expense.

Mike

Thanks Mike!

I also have one more question;

one of my slides does not transition into the next slide when the timeline ends as the trigger says it should. I can see no difference in the triggers on this slide than any of the other working slides. The only difference is that in the scenes panel on the left hand side the transition arrows are closer than the other slides arrows!

any help would be great!

Thanks.

Sheila, 

Not sure I can visualize what you're describing (Scenes Panel...do you mean Story view?).  Any images would be great!  

In the meantime, is there any content on the slide that differs from the others (say, a video)?  If so, you could try a "when media completes" trigger.

Mike

Mike,

Do you see the arrows on the left hand side panel?

the above pic is the slide that doesnt transition and the below is a pic of a slide that transitions perfect

Do you see what I ment by the arrows appearing closer together on the one that doesnt work?

The trigger panels on the right seem to be the same, so that is the only difference I can see...

Thanks

Sheila,  are you seeing the images in your browser?  I'm just seeing blank squares.

Tell you what, can you attach instead of inserting? That may work a bit better as it looks like your images may be pretty large.

Mike

ok i just paste the screen shots onto a doc attached!

The triggers are a little different (jump to next slide versus jump to slide 1.10 6). Not sure that that's the issue though.  Two things...

1. Check the slide properties (gear icon) for the slide that's not advancing.  Make sure that it's set to automatically advance.

2. I can't see the end of the timeline on the slide that's not advancing. Is there anything there (like large gap) that is impacting things?

Mike

sorry where would I find the slide properties/ gear icon?

ok the properties is set correctly and there is no large gap in the timeline.... any other ideas?

Not without seeing the file itself.  If you're willing to share it via DropBox or some such means, you can PM me the link and I'll take a look.

I'm guessing it has something to do with the trigger settings and such.  What happens when you switch the trigger to jump to "next slide" when timeline ends?

I will just need to download drop box on this computer.

Okay.  I'm going to knock off for the evening...I'll be back on early tomorrow and will give it a look.

Mike what is your email so i can invite you into my shared folder?

Sheila,

You can just drop it into the public folder and send me the URL.  (I promise I won't pass it on as my own!)