We have a Storyline Course and we want to build a link to some software documentation that resides on the C Drive. The challenge is that we need to link to a specific HTML page as the folder it resides in has multiple HTML pages. We also want it to open and function correctly in the browser window and not externally. Neither the Web Object or Hyperlink is giving us what we need. Can any experts help with this?
Whose C Drive is it hosted on, how will the user (not having access to your C Drive) access the page?
I think that if you want to link to the page the best way to do it is to throw the document on some host somewhere and link to it from there. Another option, if the page is pretty basic, is to have javascript generate the html page in a new window. Something like:
var newWin=window.open("", "New Page");
var contents="<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Page</TITLE>"; contents+="</HEAD><BODY><p>This is a Page</p></BODY></HTML>";
Hi Jackson, thanks for taking this on. On all of the users/students machine will be software documentation (which is internet based when fired up). We are creating a course that references some of the documentation. The HTML files that we are referencing must stay in the location that they are in and reside in folders with other HTML docs. Does that help?
If its in the same place with the same name every time, then linking it to the "jump to URL/file" trigger should open it. I just tried opening an html file in a folder on my C drive and it seems to have worked. My trigger looked like this:
It opens the HTML page in a new window, will this work for you?
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Whose C Drive is it hosted on, how will the user (not having access to your C Drive) access the page?
I think that if you want to link to the page the best way to do it is to throw the document on some host somewhere and link to it from there. Another option, if the page is pretty basic, is to have javascript generate the html page in a new window. Something like:
var newWin=window.open("", "New Page");Hi Jackson, thanks for taking this on. On all of the users/students machine will be software documentation (which is internet based when fired up). We are creating a course that references some of the documentation. The HTML files that we are referencing must stay in the location that they are in and reside in folders with other HTML docs. Does that help?
If its in the same place with the same name every time, then linking it to the "jump to URL/file" trigger should open it. I just tried opening an html file in a folder on my C drive and it seems to have worked. My trigger looked like this:
It opens the HTML page in a new window, will this work for you?
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