The Problem With Storyline Web Objects

There is no API to get to the next slide in presenter, out of interest what functionality do you need in studio?  It may be simpler to build the whole thing in Storyline

Thanks for chiming in here, Phil. :)

Thanks for the idea, Phil. I rely on a lot of design and development features in PowerPoint & Presenter that Storyline lacks. My trainings are very dynamic, incorporating hundreds of animated photos, graphics, and video clips all carefully synced to audio. The Studio apps really excel at this, whereas the cue point workflow in Storyline is much more time consuming and limiting. I wish I could use both.

Andy,

I'm not familiar with Presenter at all, but does it have the "Insert Video from Website" feature that SL has? If so, you could attempt to insert your SL project as an iframe instead of a web object. If that works, it should give you access to the "parent" Presenter project through javascript, allowing you to change variables that would set off triggers (if they exist in Presenter) that would advance the presentation.

That is similar to what I did in this thread when I embedded a video in an iframe in SL from a 3rd party website, and used javascript within the iframe to detect the end of the video and automatically advance the SL slide.

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/detecting-end-of-wistia-video-with-javascript

Thanks,

Mike

Mike, thank you for your suggestion. Presenter does have the option to insert a video from a website, but it works exactly the same as inserting a web object. (They both use iframes.) In Storyline, variables and triggers can be used to advance slides, but these don’t exist in Presenter. Articulate did away with their API when they released Studio 13, to the frustration of many customers.

Yeah, that makes sense that both would be iframes. Do you have any way in Presenter to run some javascript code at the end of your presentation? Anything similar to a trigger?

Not really, but I think I may have found a solution that involves tweaking the presentation.js file. It's beyond my own coding abilities to implement so I'll have to hire a developer.