I am trying to link a video that I recorded from my screen to a button by adding a trigger. Everything seems to work until I try to preview the slide. I get this message: "The slide target of this link is not available in this preview." Can you help me figure this out?
Looks like Wendy is assisting you here, but I wanted to pop in and share our documentation on this as well to assist if needed.
If you view an Articulate Storyline course 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 to fail. To properly test your published content and share it with others, upload it to the environment for which it was published. See this article for details.
If this problem comes up, is there a way to preview the slide still? I am having this message show up on a couple of the triggers I have done in storyline, and therefore I cannot preview what I've done. Thanks!
This error is coming up for me as well. Publishing takes forever so that's not a workaround. If i'm in the process of creating content, the preview is so much easier and quicker but everytime I do that, the error pops up. Even saving becomes an issue. What am I doing wrong?
It sounds like you have a link to an external site on one of your slides, is that right?
You mentioned the link doesn't work, even after publishing the file. How did you publish it, and where did you host the published output?
With your permission, we can take a look at your project file to investigate what's happening. We'll delete it when we're done troubleshooting. If that works for you, you can upload your file privately to our support team here. We'll give it a test and let you know what we find!
Thanks for the quick response! I shipped it to a coworker and he saw that I had an extra trigger that was moving to the next slide at 6 secs. Turned out to be an easy fix! Sometime another set of eyes is helpful!
I just had this same error message, and it was caused by a trigger that jumped back to the previous slide when the timeline started, instead of when the user clicked the Previous button.
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Hi Jenny
you need to upload to a webserver to be able to view - your local settings might not allow you to view it.
Hi Jenny!
Looks like Wendy is assisting you here, but I wanted to pop in and share our documentation on this as well to assist if needed.
If you view an Articulate Storyline course 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 to fail. To properly test your published content and share it with others, upload it to the environment for which it was published. See this article for details.
If this problem comes up, is there a way to preview the slide still? I am having this message show up on a couple of the triggers I have done in storyline, and therefore I cannot preview what I've done. Thanks!
Yes upload to a webserver or LMS and you should be able to view the link. It's only when doing it locally that you may encounter the popup message.
Publish to CD, on your local computer, and you can preview it from there.
Must be my local browser settings Walt the 'publish to CD' option never works for me :-(
This error is coming up for me as well. Publishing takes forever so that's not a workaround. If i'm in the process of creating content, the preview is so much easier and quicker but everytime I do that, the error pops up. Even saving becomes an issue. What am I doing wrong?
Hey Liz,
Sorry to hear that you're running into an error with this. The information that I shared above is still true.
Sounds like your course may have some branching perhaps? You may be able to get around the error by previewing the entire course vs a slide or scene.
You can then 'Select' specific slides if needed. Check out this short Peek video demonstrating this behavior.
Hello
I encountered the same issue, however publishing it does not resolve the issue. It stops where the pop up would occur and skips to the next slide.
Wondering what else could be the issue?
Thanks
Hi Melanie!
It sounds like you have a link to an external site on one of your slides, is that right?
You mentioned the link doesn't work, even after publishing the file. How did you publish it, and where did you host the published output?
With your permission, we can take a look at your project file to investigate what's happening. We'll delete it when we're done troubleshooting. If that works for you, you can upload your file privately to our support team here. We'll give it a test and let you know what we find!
Hi Alyssa,
Thanks for the quick response! I shipped it to a coworker and he saw that I had an extra trigger that was moving to the next slide at 6 secs. Turned out to be an easy fix! Sometime another set of eyes is helpful!
Thanks
Melanie
Glad to hear it, Melanie! Thanks for the update. 😊
Leslie, after getting this error and reading all responses, previewing the entire project (vs. slide) worked for me, thank you.
That's great news, Eva.
I'm glad that this conversation was able to help you and I appreciate you popping in to share.
Welcome to E-Learning Heroes as well :)
Bringing up an old thread? Is there any way to set up a localhost?
very helpful
I just had this same error message, and it was caused by a trigger that jumped back to the previous slide when the timeline started, instead of when the user clicked the Previous button.