Using Web Objects on a public networked drive

Hi Amy!

When creating, editing, and publishing Articulate Storyline courses, be sure you're working on your local hard drive (typically your C: drive). Working on a network drive or a USB drive can cause erratic behavior, such as file corruption, an inability to save changes, and loss of resources. See this article for more information.

If you view published Storyline content 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 of your content to fail.

To properly test your published content and share it with others, upload it to the environment for which it was published. Please review this article for details.

That is not the answer to my question. I always work on a local drive.

My question is how to reference local links embedded in a storyline project
once it is published. Please refereence my attachments to see the error
message. I am talking about published output

Thanks for the help, though.

But, I need more of an answer.

Hi Amy,

That error message looked like you were testing the published content locally instead of testing it within the intended publish environment. Additionally, you mentioned linking to a file on your company server, and we do recommend working with all local files - although I know there are users who link to a server file, but the firewall may also be presenting complications. 

The intended public environment is local.

Hi Amy,

Are you publishing for CD or another local source? 

Please also make sure to use full (absolute) URLs when adding web objects to your content as relative urls aren't supported. 

A possible workaround for using relative URLs can be found in the forums. This method may work for your scenario, but please note that we don't officially support it.

I am publishing to a shared drive. Can you please direct me specifically
to where in the forums the possible workaround for using relative urls is
located?

Thanks.

Hi Amy,

What publishing option are you choosing? Web, LMS, cd? You'll want to publish for CD if you intend to distribute it locally, and then ensure you're publishing that to a local drive. Once you've done that you can place on your shared drive.

Also, here is the link for the forums method - sorry I thought it was included previously.