Hi everybody, I'm in the process of developing a course in Storyline 3. Is there a way to password protect it in a similar way to MS Office products Word etc. ?
Hopefully there will be a way, as unfortunately we have unscrupulous people in our organisation that "borrow" other peoples work, and pass it off as their own.
you could start with a slide where the user has to enter a "password" into a text entry field and let them only advance, when it´s the exact password. By deactivating the next/forward button (even the swipe function) it should be safe. Or you have to adjust the next/swipe trigger with a condition so they can only use these when the variable of the text entry field = your password.
This sounds like it's stopping people progressing through the course until they enter the correct password, what i'm after is a password to stop developers opening the file, similar to MS Word password to open feature, so they can't access the courseware to edit it.
As far as I know they don´t have this option yet, but maybe you want to enter a feature request for this. If you work in a network and people "steal" from there you only could choose to save locally instead?!
Unfortunately the zip option wont work as I only have the Windows compress utility, which I don't believe can have a password applied to a file. We are on a very secure network so I can't install Winzip or similar. So for now I'm stumped on this one.
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Do you have any insight into why this happens? - Some people are lazy and just want the quick route to departmental promotion by declaring other peoples good work as their own. Sad but true
Any ideas on how this behaviour could be changed? - It's not something I've given thought to, just put up with it.
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Hi,
you could start with a slide where the user has to enter a "password" into a text entry field and let them only advance, when it´s the exact password. By deactivating the next/forward button (even the swipe function) it should be safe. Or you have to adjust the next/swipe trigger with a condition so they can only use these when the variable of the text entry field = your password.
Susi
Edit: If you mean the storyline file you could create a zip-file and create a password for this.
Hi Susi thanks for you reply.
This sounds like it's stopping people progressing through the course until they enter the correct password, what i'm after is a password to stop developers opening the file, similar to MS Word password to open feature, so they can't access the courseware to edit it.
Hope this makes sense.
Paul
Hi again, yes I considered the Zip option, just wondered is SL3 had a password option.
Many thanks for your time in replying
As far as I know they don´t have this option yet, but maybe you want to enter a feature request for this. If you work in a network and people "steal" from there you only could choose to save locally instead?!
Hi Matthew, Susi - Thanks for your replies.
Unfortunately the zip option wont work as I only have the Windows compress utility, which I don't believe can have a password applied to a file. We are on a very secure network so I can't install Winzip or similar. So for now I'm stumped on this one.
In answer to:
Do you have any insight into why this happens? - Some people are lazy and just want the quick route to departmental promotion by declaring other peoples good work as their own. Sad but true
Any ideas on how this behaviour could be changed? - It's not something I've given thought to, just put up with it.
Many thanks for your time and responses
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