Sharing a Scene between projects??

Jun 10, 2013

Hi all I am new to E-Learning Heroes but have been using Storyline for a couple of months and absolutely loving it. I have a few years of work to do for my first client (Railway construction and maintenance training) and this is the tool to do it with. We are using other tools for diagrams, photographs, videos, animation etc but ultimately they all end up in Storyline.

Now my question: I have a scene covering risk and controls that needs to be used in each of about 15 other modules but I really don't want to repeat the content as this introduces a maintenance headache. I would love to be able to reference the scene from another project (like a common resource project).

Any ideas?

Rob

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Mike Taylor
Hero

almost 11 years ago06/11/13 at 4:09 am (UTC)

Hi Robert and welcome to the community! You could import the existing content as described in this tutorial http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/importing-from-another-storyline-project.aspx

Is that what you had in mind?

Robert Fenwick
Author

almost 11 years ago06/11/13 at 4:16 pm (UTC)

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply but, no, that wasn't what I had in mind. I have been using import extensively but this still leaves me with the headache of maintaining multiple copies of the one set of material.

What I want to be able to do is point menu entries in the player to scenes or slides in another project OR to create a virtual scene in a project that actually exists in another project. Many software development environments have this capability whereby you are referencing an external block of code that doesn't get pulled in until compile time. The same would apply here - the material doesn't get pulled in to the story until the project is published.

This way I would only maintain one copy of the "Risks and Controls" story but every time I publish one of the other 15 or so in the course the newest version of "Risks and Controls" would be included.

I am surprised no-one else has come up with this to add to the wishlist because it would make large projects much easier to manage.

Cheers

Rob

Bruce Graham
Hero

almost 11 years ago06/12/13 at 12:56 am (UTC)

Hi Rob,

Having truly reuseable content objects like this would be a wonderful addition to Storyline.

"Code libraries" have ben discussed before in the Betas.

Could you please submit an official request at http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php?form=feature?

Thanks

Bruce

Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 11 years ago06/12/13 at 1:05 am (UTC)

I agree the real world application you describe would make this a great addition

Mike Taylor
Hero

almost 11 years ago06/12/13 at 2:53 am (UTC)

Sorry for my misunderstanding. As Bruce and Phil both commented that is a great request.

Jonathan Atleson

almost 11 years ago06/17/13 at 12:33 pm (UTC)

You could use a Web Object inserted on a slide to play a separate reusable Storyline output file stored on a web server. I've done this where I had external Storyline "videos" that would play in a lightbox via a Web Object slide. You may have to play with the dimensions of the reusable component and suppress the player to make it look seamless.

Rebecca Killmeyer

almost 8 years ago06/30/16 at 7:38 pm (UTC)

Has there been any update on this recently? I also have scenes in one StoryLine file that I would like to link into the menu several times.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

almost 8 years ago06/30/16 at 8:39 pm (UTC)

Hi Rebecca,

This thread is a bit older, but there isn't a way to reference one specific scene inside another project. You'd have to look at importing in those specific slides into your existing project and go from there.

You're also welcome to submit your thoughts in terms of a feature request here.

Sharing a Scene between projects??

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