SL 360 - HMTL page not displaying message - The content has ended. You may close this window.

Apr 28, 2020

I have just updated a course for a client. This is the first course I have published since updating to 3.39.21985.0 (April 21st). I'm not using SL on a daily basis currently due to reduced work (covid 19) so have only just spotted this. 

When the learner exits the course and the Close HTML page loads it is not displaying the 'The content has ended. You may close this window' message. The page is simply blank. 

I have checked the Text Labels in Player Properties and the phrase is defined, plus if I open the HTML page in the LMS subfolder after publishing the text is present on the page. 

I have launched SL360 courses on my LMS published before 21st April and the close message displays fine, so it does not appear to be the LMS. I can't see anything which would account for the HTML text not displaying now expect the SL360 update. 

Has anyone else seen this issue in the last week?

10 Replies
Leslie McKerchie

Hi again Trevor,

Thanks for reaching out! I'm so sorry you're seeing an error when exiting courses that you published with the latest Storyline 360 update. We'll fix this in our next update, and here's how you can avoid it in the meantime.

1. Go to the following folder on your computer, depending on your version of Windows:

32-bit Windows
C:\Program Files\Articulate\360\Storyline\Content\scormdriver_v7

64-bit Windows
C:\Program Files (x86)\Articulate\360\Storyline\Content\scormdriver_v7

2. Open the scormdriver.js file in a text editor, such as Notepad.

3. Find "goodbye.html" and replace it with "lms/goodbye.html" (including the quotes).

4. Save and close the scormdriver.js file.

5. If you've customized the goodbye.html file, you also need to copy and paste your custom goodbye.html file into the folder from step 1 above. If you haven't customized the goodbye.html file, you can skip this step.

Then republish your course and upload it to your LMS. Let me know if that solves the problem.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Trevor, 

Good news! We released an update for Storyline 360 that fixes the 404 error you recently reported.

If you already fixed your courses using the instructions from Leslie's previous post, you don’t need to republish those courses. The latest update prevents the 404 error from happening in courses that you publish from this point forward.

If you've customized the goodbye.html file for your Storyline courses, you’ll still need to copy and paste your custom goodbye.html file into the following folder on your computer, depending on your version of Windows:

32-bit Windows
C:\Program Files\Articulate\360\Storyline\Content\scormdriver_v7

64-bit Windows
C:\Program Files (x86)\Articulate\360\Storyline\Content\scormdriver_v7

Let us know if you have any questions. We're happy to help!

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi all,

A quick update for you regarding the goodbye.html file. The latest update (Update 41) of Storyline moves the goodbye.html file back to its original location in your program files. If you’ve customized the goodbye.html file for your Storyline courses, you’ll need to copy and paste your custom file into the following folder on your computer after installing the latest Storyline 360 update.

32-bit Windows
C:\Program Files\Articulate\360\Storyline\Content\lms

64-bit Windows
C:\Program Files (x86)\Articulate\360\Storyline\Content\lms

See this article for details on customizing the goodbye.html file: https://articulate.com/support/article/Storyline-360-Customizing-or-Suppressing-the-Goodbye-html-Page

Let us know if you have any questions. We're happy to help!

tim larsen

Would you be able to help me pass the Result.ScorePercentage storyline var to a web object? I can't seem to be able to pass the storyline results to a javascript file...I need to capture the data after that via PHP to MySQL but the sticking point is passing the Storyline variable to my own Javascript variable. I realize this may not be the spot to ask...

Leslie McKerchie

I apologize for any confusion, Tim.

You are correct. Storyline is designed primarily as an eLearning development tool to be used in conjunction with Articulate Online or your own Learning Management System (LMS).

Viewing and Tracking Storyline 360 Courses in an LMS

Take a look at a similar conversation here to dig in and see how to send those scores out if needed.

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