Publishing Course as Flash File

There is no option to publish a single .swf file. See here: http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/storyline-does-not-support-publishing-to-a-single-swf-file 

That's sad! :(

Beats Captivate hands down with its features; have always been an advocate. Now I'll have to advocate using Captivate for our projects instead! :(

Wish they add the feature in a future release. Thanks for your response, Michael.

I'm not quite sure what the problem is though. You mentioned 'publishing and broadcasting your courses on the web'. If you plan to make content available ON THE WEB, e.g. host content on a some server, why would you care if the published content consists of one file or several? No matter if the content is one file or many, users would only access ONE URL. Am I missing something?

Hi DK,

I'm sorry that wasn't the answer you were looking for - but hope that Michael's post here helps you determine another way to host your content. 

Also, you're always welcome to share your thoughts in the form of a feature request here with our team. 

Hi Michael and Ashley,

Appreciate your helpful responses. The problem in using Drive currently for me is that I'm trying to embed a couple of courses on page on a website that has additional contents as well.

Anyhow, I've filled out the feature request form. Hop the feature i s added in some future release.

As always, this forum was a great help. Thanks.

I'm curious, why do people prefer Articulate? I've always been a Captivate user and have never tried Articulate. Articulate is $1400 and Captivate is $20 a month. That would take over 5 years to pay for Articulate and in that time I'm sure a few updates would take place. Is the higher cost of Articulate worth it? Is there that big of a difference? 

-Tom

Hi Tom,

The best thing to do would be to give the free Storyline 2, 30 day trial, a go and see for yourself. You may hate it, or you may love it :)

I'm not a die-hard advocate of any particular piece of software, nor am I a fan-boy of any one software developer so I hope my opinions are viewed as unbiased. In my time I've developed in both Captivate and Articulate.

I worked with Captivate before picking up Articulate and have to say that I found Captivate to be extremely frustrating. I thought that some of the long-winded workarounds that I had to use to achieve what I considered to be basic functionality were very inefficient in terms of time and money. Don't get me wrong, Captivate is a very powerful piece of software but the learning curve is greater and the results, as with anything, improve when used by a professional.

My experience with Storyline has been a lot more positive so far. Yes, it has a few things I'd like to refine but on the whole it allows me to achieve quite complex results with ease when compared to Captivate. In my opinion Storyline is more suitable for beginners than Captivate is due to the lesser learning curve but is also powerful enough for professional users to create some excellent courses.

Only you can answer whether Storyline is worth the extra investment (or up-front investment) as this depends entirely on your circumstances and what you want to achieve.

If you've never tried Storyline why don't you download the free trial, you never know, you might find the answer you're looking for!

Is it not possible for you to use an iframe in your web page to display the course? As Michael said it shouldn't matter at all whether there is a single file or multiple files.

Hi Tom,

Just in case you are interested in testing out Storyline you can download it here to activate your free 30-day trial. If you have any questions while working through it - let us know! 

Hi David,

Well, it seems I may lack in expertise there. Direction to the steps to achieve this will be much appreciated. :)

Hi Tom,

Just to reinforce the unanimous suggestion, download the free trial. I was using Captivate for the last 5 years, and had used a fair bit of Presenter and Lectora too, but when I got Storyline, I found it drastically more intuitive than any other tool and have loved it ever since. I'm not saying you'll come to the same realization, but at least you'll have the opportunity to make an informed decision.

Hi, apologies for the time it's taken to reply to your post.

There's some info here about how to use iframes to embed storyline content.

I hope it helps.