I'd like to share a project with a co-worker. I publish the project, save as a .zip and upload to Dropbox. The recipient downloads the .zip but is unable to open the project. Am I forgetting to do something?
If you view published Storyline content on your local hard drive or send it to someone else to view on their local hard drive, you'll encounter security restrictions from the computer, web browser, Flash Player, and network that'll cause various features of your content to fail.
To properly test your published content and share it with others, upload it to the environment for which it was published.
First, are you wanting your co-worker to actually be able to modify the course content, or just view the finished project?
If you're wanting to share the actual project with them, so they can make changes or add content, you'll only need to share the .STORY file. This file contains all your content and they'll be able to open the project in Storyline.
If you're wanting to share your finished project so they can simply see what's been done, and you've sent them a ZIP file of the published output, they'll need to extract the files from the ZIP file in order to view it.
However, there is one thing you'll want to keep in mind. If you view published Storyline content on your local hard drive or send it to someone else to view on their local hard drive, you'll encounter security restrictions from the computer, web browser, Flash Player, and network that'll cause various features of your content to fail.
To properly test your published content and share it with others, upload it to the environment for which it was published. Please review the following article for details:
I have Articulate Studio Pro. For all of my projects I need to have my manager review, edit, and approve. If she has Studio Pro as well, how could I share with her to make this happen? I don't want to publish it because then she can't make the changes. Can we save to a shared drive?
If you need to share the project with your manager, you can create what's called a "Presenter Package". This will create a package with all of your project files that you can then send to your manager. She'll be able to work with the project files, update them, and send them back if needed.
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Hey Chris!
If you view published Storyline content on your local hard drive or send it to someone else to view on their local hard drive, you'll encounter security restrictions from the computer, web browser, Flash Player, and network that'll cause various features of your content to fail.
Hi Chris,
First, are you wanting your co-worker to actually be able to modify the course content, or just view the finished project?
If you're wanting to share the actual project with them, so they can make changes or add content, you'll only need to share the .STORY file. This file contains all your content and they'll be able to open the project in Storyline.
If you're wanting to share your finished project so they can simply see what's been done, and you've sent them a ZIP file of the published output, they'll need to extract the files from the ZIP file in order to view it.
However, there is one thing you'll want to keep in mind. If you view published Storyline content on your local hard drive or send it to someone else to view on their local hard drive, you'll encounter security restrictions from the computer, web browser, Flash Player, and network that'll cause various features of your content to fail.
I have Articulate Studio Pro. For all of my projects I need to have my manager review, edit, and approve. If she has Studio Pro as well, how could I share with her to make this happen? I don't want to publish it because then she can't make the changes. Can we save to a shared drive?
Thanks,
Kelly
Hi Kelly,
If you need to share the project with your manager, you can create what's called a "Presenter Package". This will create a package with all of your project files that you can then send to your manager. She'll be able to work with the project files, update them, and send them back if needed.
Here's more information:
Articulate Presenter Package
I hope this helps!
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