Storyline 3

Dec 17, 2014

We have a lot of courses authored in SL1 and SL2. I believe most of us don't update all the SL1 courses to SL2 to do a minor tweak. There is too much chance that the update will cause hard-to-identify shifts of text and/or images, or more. It is clearly less work to do a minor update in SL1.

It would be so much more convenient if SL2 had a unique suffix... how about .story2 ?

Can't change that now, but when SL3 comes out, I hope Articulate will give .story3 a little consideration.

Sam

6 Replies

Wendy Farmer
Hero

over 9 years ago12/17/14 at 8:52 pm (UTC)

Hi Sam

great idea - I have started tagging my own projects that way to keep in check. But when you download something from the forum to help someone - you have to guess whether its SL1 or SL2.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 9 years ago12/17/14 at 9:20 pm (UTC)

Hi Sam,

Definitely a good idea - and one worth sharing here.

Sam Carter
Author

over 9 years ago12/18/14 at 7:29 pm (UTC)

Hi Ashley,

I ran the SL1 Update 8 installation yesterday. Now when I double-click a .story in Windows explorer, the default program that opens a .story file has switched from SL2 to SL1 ... another reason keeping the same suffix from one incompatible revision to the next is problematic.

Sam

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 9 years ago12/18/14 at 7:52 pm (UTC)

Hi Sam,

Totally understand - and I have the same set up (since Storyline 2 actually). What I do when I want to open a Storyline 1 file is either open Storyline 1 and browse for it there or right click on the file and choose "open with" - I know the latter option hasn't worked for everyone depending on their system and settings. You could also set the default program that should open .story files from the Windows ->Program settings. My default is to open them all with Storyline 2.