Mixing StoryLine and Presenter

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Hi Judy,

You can add Storyline files into a Presenter project.  Here's how I did it:

1. Publish the SL file for the web
2. In the published folder rename the file called story.html to index.html
3. In the Presenter file insert the published SL file as a web object.

Yes, Brandy is correct. I was about to reply with the same steps.

Here's a demo of exactly that in action (you can also download the source Presenter Package here).

Also note that you can import PowerPoint / Articulate Presenter content into Storyline.

Brandy - thank you SO much!  The process you outlined is the process I was thinking of testing (but have not had time).  Good to know that it works in practice - not just theory!

I did just exactly as instruction (above), and if I preview the file it works great, but as soon as I go to publish it, the storyline file I've imported into presenter does not show :(

what am I doing wrong ?????

please help! 

Just an update -- for whatever reason .. now it's working (?!)  The only think I did was go into the published / data / webobject folder and tried to run it from there (to see if it would work -- and it did)  as soon as I went to view the published version (by clicking on the player.html - instead of clicking on the "view" button - it worked !   

Hi All,

Tx for this post. I tried it and was also successful. Coupla':

1. Stephanie Harnett has a nice Screenr here demonstrating what she achieved with this and providing some additional info: https://player.vimeo.com/video/204930870

2. Also something I ran into. The first time I did this, I didn't change anything in my original Storyline project, and the menu that is part of the player also appeared in Presenter...as a picture, not as an active menu. Here's a screenshot

I (the user) could of course scroll to position properly, but ugh.

So I customized the player, removing all the sidebar/menu items and re-published and it looks great.

Question: Is that typical behavior?

Hi Rebecca-

If you're embedding a Storyline story as a Web Object in Presenter, it will play exactly as designed, so that's what I'd expect to see if you hadn't modified your Storyline player to exclude the navigation. In other words, Presenter's not going to change anything about your published Storyline output, so yes, you would need to change the player to include or exclude whatever elements you'd like.

Tx, Gabe. It's always helpful to know what is working as designed as opposed to what the heck did I do that made that happen! Appreciate your feedback.

Sure thing, Rebecca! 

Hi Gabe,

I followed the above instructions to insert a storyline file using the web object. I produced the SL file in 480 x 360 to fit onto my slide. I inserted it as a web object with custom size of 480 x 360. When I preview it in presenter, it shows at the right size. However, when I produce it out, the size of the web object scales down to 320 x 240. Is this a glitch or did I do something incorrect?

Thx!

Hi Shelley-

Could you please submit these details along with your .story file for our support team to review more closely? 

Hi Gabe,

Thanks for your reply. I actually fiddled with it some more and discovered that I needed to set my Storyline options for browser settings to resize to fill screen and scale player to fill window. It worked after that.

Great!

Hi all,

I have followed all of these instructions, changing story.html to index.html etc and  including Gerry W's hint not to let the address to the webobject be more then 256 characters and my Storyline webobjects still aren't displaying in my final Presenter project.

I have sucessfully done it before with incorporating some captivate files and had no issues, but as soon as I try to do the exact same process with a storyline project - following the exact same procedure I still get a blank screen.

It's extremely frustrating especially when you know it has worked before

Has anyone had a similar issue, and were they able to remedy it?

Have your posted your project to the web?  We've found that when we insert Web Objects, the person who published the file can view them, but no one else can until the entire published module is posted to the web.  This is a pain because it makes testing a longer, more complex process.  But, it is the only way we've been able to work around the problem.

Hi Judy,

Thanks for the feedback. You are right, once I posted it to a net address it all worked as required.  I was hoping to avoid the longer testing process that you allude to, but I'm guessing it can't be avoided .  At least I know for future testing.

Can't wait till Presenter is updated to Actionscript 3.0 , hopefully that will avoid all the messing around in the future.

Thanks for your help!

M