Hi - as we know Adobe is phasing out support for Flash in 2020. If I use SL 2 and have both HMTL5 and SWF in my SCORM Package, can anyone guide/tell if and LMS can point to the HMTL5 version rather than the SWF without republishing or upgrading to 360 or SL3? OR do I really need to upgrade to SL3 or 360 and publish only in HTMl5?
The browser should determine if it'll show you the HTML5 or the Flash output depending on what the browser supports. I think what you're looking to do is something similar to point to the story.html file vs. the story_html5.html for the HTML5 output. Most LMSs mask the URL or customize it based on their launch, so I don't know of a way to force it to show the HTMl5 output.
If you're using Storyline 3 or Storyline 360, you'll find both of those have an option to publish to HTML5 only or HTML5 first (meaning that'll be presented to learners even if their browser supports flash).
You could delete the story.html file and then rename the story_html5.html to story.html; then use that as your main link.
Something to keep in mind is that SL2 came out about 5 years ago (which is a long time in tech years) and a lot has happened to HTML5, browsers, etc. I've had a number of my SL2 HTML5 course quit working when Chrome changed something in the browser.
The solution above is a good short-term fix, but may cost a lot more in the long term trying to resolve issues with the courses.
Thanks Ashley and Tom for the great feedback! As Flash phases out I want to be sure the inventory of courses my team manages has the right plan in place. I plan to upgrade very shortly.
Hi - additional questions about the Flash phase out hoping you can clarify for me as my team and I update courses made in Storyline.
I upgraded to SL 3 and have been republishing older courses however if the course was created in SL 2 and does work in our LMS on a mobile device is there any need to republish for the desktop browser or will the browser determine how to show the output. I am still a bit confused.
Footnote - I disabled flash in IE and launched a few courses I created in SL3 and one loads and plays and the other does not. Perhaps I need to reach out to the LMS team? Can you tell me which file to rename specifically from the attached screen shot?
On the first question, I'd republish all of the older courses with SL3 so that they're all updated an current regarding HTML5. We made significant changes in HTML5 publishing between 2 and 3.
On renaming it depends on what your LMS requires to connect. index_lms_html5 will launch the HTML5 version of the course.
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Hi Suzanne,
The browser should determine if it'll show you the HTML5 or the Flash output depending on what the browser supports. I think what you're looking to do is something similar to point to the story.html file vs. the story_html5.html for the HTML5 output. Most LMSs mask the URL or customize it based on their launch, so I don't know of a way to force it to show the HTMl5 output.
If you're using Storyline 3 or Storyline 360, you'll find both of those have an option to publish to HTML5 only or HTML5 first (meaning that'll be presented to learners even if their browser supports flash).
You could delete the story.html file and then rename the story_html5.html to story.html; then use that as your main link.
Something to keep in mind is that SL2 came out about 5 years ago (which is a long time in tech years) and a lot has happened to HTML5, browsers, etc. I've had a number of my SL2 HTML5 course quit working when Chrome changed something in the browser.
The solution above is a good short-term fix, but may cost a lot more in the long term trying to resolve issues with the courses.
Thanks Ashley and Tom for the great feedback! As Flash phases out I want to be sure the inventory of courses my team manages has the right plan in place. I plan to upgrade very shortly.
Hi - additional questions about the Flash phase out hoping you can clarify for me as my team and I update courses made in Storyline.
I upgraded to SL 3 and have been republishing older courses however if the course was created in SL 2 and does work in our LMS on a mobile device is there any need to republish for the desktop browser or will the browser determine how to show the output. I am still a bit confused.
Footnote - I disabled flash in IE and launched a few courses I created in SL3 and one loads and plays and the other does not. Perhaps I need to reach out to the LMS team? Can you tell me which file to rename specifically from the attached screen shot?
On the first question, I'd republish all of the older courses with SL3 so that they're all updated an current regarding HTML5. We made significant changes in HTML5 publishing between 2 and 3.
On renaming it depends on what your LMS requires to connect. index_lms_html5 will launch the HTML5 version of the course.
Thank you!! Will plan to republish and be sure my peers at the company do the same.
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