Beginner question - publishing as a single file?

Jul 06, 2012

I have just started using Storyline, and made a quick quiz slide. Wanted to publish it as a swf file, which I could share with others via Dropbox. When I publish it, I get a whole series of files and folders, which I can't easily share. Is it possible to publish an interactive "story" as a single file? I can do it with Captivate.

9 Replies

Phil Mayor
Hero

almost 12 years ago07/06/12 at 11:45 pm (UTC)

Hi Russ, its not possible to publish as a single swf

Guy Greenbaum

almost 12 years ago07/07/12 at 12:19 am (UTC)

Russ,

Are you able to use a direct link to the html file? Here's an example of a published storyline course playing from a dropbox:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19820702/animationSpeed%20output/story.html

Hope this helps,

Guy

Bruce Graham
Hero

almost 12 years ago07/07/12 at 1:35 am (UTC)

Hi Russ,

That's just not the way it works - it's not the same as Captivate for good reason.

You have lots of files and folders instead of one .swf, but just point people at the story.html file and the magic will all work.

Bruce

Russ Burchard
Author

almost 12 years ago07/07/12 at 10:50 am (UTC)

Thanks! Bear with me, as I am a true beginner (all of a few hours on Storyline, though more on Captivate).

Guy, I was able to see your example. And I can get that to work with a non-interactive file - and actually in that case, I just put the swf file in my Dropbox "Public" folder - not the "story" html file.

Bruce, you say "point people at the story.html file and the magic will all work". I don't know how to do that. I can put the "story.html" file in the Dropbox "Public" folder, but it won't let me put the folder with all the other files. And if I put the "story" file in, but not the others, when I share the link to that file, the user just gets an error message saying, "Could not load the file 'story_content/data.swf'" - which I assume is because the other files are not present in the "Public" folder.

Bruce Graham
Hero

almost 12 years ago07/07/12 at 11:05 am (UTC)

Hi Russ.

Compile your .story file using one of the options.
Copy the ENTIRE folder to a Public DB folder, (tho' have just changed the options in DB).
Anyway...you need to right-click on the story.html file, and COPY THE PUBLIC LINK. That is the link that you need to share with people.

Hope that helps.

Bruce

Russ Burchard
Author

almost 12 years ago07/07/12 at 11:06 am (UTC)

OK - I think I may have it. I got it to work, though I'm not sure I understand exactly how I did it. Thanks for the help - you are very generous to help a newbie when I gather from your bio's that you are each quite experienced.