I've attached a pdf as an attachment and when I click on the ATTACHMENT button in presenter I get the drop down box but the preview image of the attachment is not what is attached. I have a pdf attached that when it's clicked on comes up correctly and prints fine, it just doesn't show the correct image in the drop down attachments menu. I don't want learners to think they are printing out the first page of the presentation, that wouldn't be helpful, they need to know they are printing out a reference page.
Any input would be helpful. I have attached the reference page as a ppt, jpg, and now pdf (and re-attached, of course)...and all files show the first page of the presentation as the preview.
that image is actually the thumbnail of the first slide in your course.
It is in the "data/swf" folder of your published course, and has the name "tb1.swf".
you can replace that file after you publish with one of your own. You can make a one frame swf file with your graphic in it, and replace that one. I've attached one that we use. This will only show in Published format, not Preview.
That's nice of you to share your customized tb1.swf file, Dwayne - thanks!
Brandy, as Dwayne mentioned, the image on the Attachments tab will always show a thumbnail of the 1st slide in your course. If you prefer to create your own thumbnail for the attachments tab and you don't have flash, you could do this: create a separate one-slide presentation, use that one slide to design your thumbnail, and then publish. Find the tb1.swf in the data/swf folder of your published output, and use that to replace the tb1.swf in your actual published course.
I've already done what Jeanette suggested...took all of a couple of minutes because I already had the ppt file created. I published that one slide and copied the tb1.swf file from the data/swf folder and pasted it into the full presentation data/swf folder and now it looks wonderful. Very easy!
Glad that worked out for you! The only downside of doing this is, if you republish your course you'll need to remember to copy over the tb1.swf again. That's because any time you publish, all previous files get removed and are replaced with the newly published version.
Thanks for the extra info. I have to do that when I use animated backgrounds with the bgsm#.swf files too, so I always keep an extra copy of those swf files in a separate folder just for re-publishing reasons.
Hi Denise! You're welcome to submit feature requests here. Thanks!
In the meantime, for your thumbnail that contains the flv placeholder, you could always create your own tb1.swf as described above, and use a screencapture of your movie's 1st frame. Gabe shows this workaround in this following screencast: https://player.vimeo.com/video/149172099
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that image is actually the thumbnail of the first slide in your course.
It is in the "data/swf" folder of your published course, and has the name "tb1.swf".
you can replace that file after you publish with one of your own. You can make a one frame swf file with your graphic in it, and replace that one. I've attached one that we use. This will only show in Published format, not Preview.
Heres the output of the previous .fla file.
That's nice of you to share your customized tb1.swf file, Dwayne - thanks!
Brandy, as Dwayne mentioned, the image on the Attachments tab will always show a thumbnail of the 1st slide in your course. If you prefer to create your own thumbnail for the attachments tab and you don't have flash, you could do this: create a separate one-slide presentation, use that one slide to design your thumbnail, and then publish. Find the tb1.swf in the data/swf folder of your published output, and use that to replace the tb1.swf in your actual published course.
THanks so much for sharing and for the info of how to do my own. This community rocks!
I've already done what Jeanette suggested...took all of a couple of minutes because I already had the ppt file created. I published that one slide and copied the tb1.swf file from the data/swf folder and pasted it into the full presentation data/swf folder and now it looks wonderful. Very easy!
Glad that worked out for you!
The only downside of doing this is, if you republish your course you'll need to remember to copy over the tb1.swf again. That's because any time you publish, all previous files get removed and are replaced with the newly published version.
Thanks for the extra info. I have to do that when I use animated backgrounds with the bgsm#.swf files too, so I always keep an extra copy of those swf files in a separate folder just for re-publishing reasons.
Thank you Dwayne for sharing your tb1.swf and thank you Jeanette for your sugggestion as well.
Great help as usual
Silvia
Am I the only one that sees this as a defect? You should be able to turn off the thumbnail. How does one do a a feature request?
I will have to do this because the first slide shows a .flv - that is - a movie reel..sigh
thanks for the info though
Hi Denise! You're welcome to submit feature requests here. Thanks!
In the meantime, for your thumbnail that contains the flv placeholder, you could always create your own tb1.swf as described above, and use a screencapture of your movie's 1st frame. Gabe shows this workaround in this following screencast: https://player.vimeo.com/video/149172099
This is a great work around and made my attachment look alot more professional.
thanks for the tip
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