Replace image once to change its multiple occurences

Hi, Pierre -- 

You may want to try adding the image to the slide master (as there is currently no way to update them all at once), and you are welcome to submit a feature request. 

Hi Christie,

I can't have it in the slide master because it has to be in front of everything on the stage.

That's why it has been thoroughly pasted in a layer on a few hundred slides !

Pierre, submit the feature request. The more they hear the request the better our chances of seeing something in an update. I know this is one of my biggest requests.

I know, Brett, I've done many feature requests in the past (an I may have even asked for a library) and then came Storyline 2 and... well...

Anyway. Request done. But that won't swap my 100's of pictures in the next few weeks ! 

hi all, 

i have already submitted a feature request, but then also is there any work around for this issue ???

I don't know an easy workaround. I think you'll just have to slog it out. Keeping my fingers crossed that we'll see a library or way to link to images like in InDesign or Quark allowing you to edit or replace images and have them flow back into the file.

If you just need to swap picture in the published output and don't need to alter content, here's what you can do :

- open a copy of your story file and change picture in one slide

- publish to a new folder

- open story_content folder of the newly published project and find the swf file that contains the new picture

- in your previous published project, find the swf that contains the "old" picture, copy its name. Rename the new swf and overwrite the old one with it. You should get picture swapped everywhere.

It works for me because both pictures have the same size.

Hi all,

Would this work the same way when publishing to html5?

thanks

It might be easier because every picture ends up in the "mobile" folder.

I suppose you just have to swap it there...

I made a quick test and it works !

Hey Pierre,

thanks! I´ve just run a quick test and seems to work! I guess you get optimum results when images are the same size, so I´ll keep this in mind but good to know.

Thanks for your assistance here, Pierre, and I am glad to hear you are all set, Laetitia! :)

that is a great workaround, but honestly - a list view of assets is actually (ahem) pretty basic to ask for a software of this caliber (and price). Especially since we are all wanting to create nice looking projects with a big visual impact. We all know how creative keeps changing all the time (hence this is a rudimentary feature in pretty much any Adobe product)...

Thanks,

Eitan

Hey Eitan - Looks like I responded to a similar post here, so be sure to get that request in :)

The time it took you to tell him to submit his own request could have been spent just sending it to your developers. 

This is your company model: we, the frustrated users have to go elsewhere and spend more time requesting enhancements that we've outlined clearly here. 

I refuse on principle because you should care enough about making your software work that you submit the changes yourselves. Every time we users don't submit the change request, our voices are unheard by the developers, and your software continues to fail to do what most users would often agree it should.  For years, I've never seen an enhancement that satisfied a problem I've had with your software.

Hi Tony,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing your candid thoughts.

We agree with you and have worked to better this process for our users. We've come a long way in two years :)

I'd even like to share some information we shared over a year ago:

We're super excited about the features that we've been adding to Storyline.  If you take a quick look at the version history of Storyline 360 compared with the version history of Storyline 2, you'll see a pretty remarkable evolution in the pace and volume of new features these past 6 months!

We expect that new model to continue, including a major release with some much anticipated features and bug fixes before the end of this quarter.  Keep an eye on our What's New, What's Next page for frequent previews.

We understand that the features we build won't always align perfectly with the features you think are important.  Prioritizing what's most valuable is one of the hardest things to do, and here's a peek at how we try to make those decisions.

Keep an eye out for more exciting features soon!

That said, we do submit many of the feature requests for customers as long as we fully understand the demand, the need, and the use-case. Personally, if I do not understand all of those things, I will still request for them to submit directly so that no important aspect is missed or poorly communicated.

I see a few posts from you this month:

• Custom Replay Button on Slide Master which Alyssa handled for you.
• Text Entry without a Submit Button
• and of course this one about replacing images

Have I missed anything? I'd be happy to be sure that these are submitted to the team and that the conversations you have posted on are attached so that you will be notified when we have any updates to share.

Hi Leslie,

Still no feedback though. That's why I gave up Feature Requests.

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/requested-features-that-were-included-in-sl2

Hi Pierre, 

I wanted to let you know that Storyline 360, build 3.24.17733.0 is available today, and I hope you find the latest feature valuable. Here's the snippet mentioned in the Version history: 

• Manage all the assets for your project in one place with the media library. Easily add, remove, replace, reuse, and export images, characters, audio clips, and videos. See every slide and layer where an asset is used and jump to each location instantly. You can even edit assets with third-party apps and save your changes directly to Storyline

Please keep the feedback and ideas coming! 

Hi Ashley,

Thanks for the news.

Now, that's a great improvement!

Unfortunately, SL360 remains too expensive for us. I'll stick to SL2 for now. Hope SL360 owners will enjoy it.

Next step : timeline scrubbing?

Is in the interfase when you access the media library whithot selecting any image.

In a case when you have the same image inserted in several slides:

1.- Without selecting any image

2.- Top Menu Select "View"

3.- Then "Media Libarary"

4.- Selec the image you want to update

5.- At the right buttom corner is a small icon with a green arrow, when you hover over it says "Replace"

6.- Select the image you want to replace (make sure it has the sam size)

7.-  Vua-lá

I know this is an old thread but I found it when looking for a way to replace the same image across multiple slides (200 slides in my case). The comment left by Paul is 100% correct and has just saved me a lot of time.

Thanks :)

Oh no! Two years later and Paul's comment is gone - Oh No! (haha)

I just had to individually replace almost 400 items and I can't express how much I wish there was a library I could have just done them all at once with. Or even allowing us to select multiple and replace. Judging by the age of this thread, it's never going to happen.

Wish I knew whatever that comment from Paul was!

Hi Jen,

If you have an image being used in multiple slides, you can quickly swap out this image with another one using the Media Library's Replace function. 

Note that this will only work if the same image file is used. There isn't a way to swap out multiple images with a single image.

Hope this helps!