Trouble attaching PDF's to storyline uploading to SCORM (LMS)

Sep 05, 2019

Hey guys - sorry had a quick look through old discussions and done what theye've advised and it hasn't worked for me - however I'm uploading to a SCORM and it is not working there. This is the method i'm following (However I'm not publishing to a web i'm publishing to an LMS this may be why its not working):

1. Make sure that your pdf is where your .storyline source file is

2. Link the file to your button like Mike says

3. After you published your course, do not forget to copy your PDF file where the story.html file resides

When I click it on the LMS this comes up:

https://atiaustralia.train.gs/courses/ASTHMAANAPHYLAXISTEST/scorm/RSA_Module_3/story_content/external_files/Standard%20drinks%20guide.pdf

but it doesn't appear. Is there something different I need to do for SCORM courses?

Thanks in advance for your help :)

7 Replies

Nicole Legault

over 4 years ago09/06/19 at 12:33 pm (UTC)

Hi there!

Instead what you can try doing is upload your PDF document to a web server / FTP so it generates a URL for it. Then, in your course, link directly to that URL. Report back and let us know if there's further issues!

Jordan Naylor
Author

over 4 years ago09/10/19 at 4:07 am (UTC)

Hi Nicole :) Thanks for your reply.

I don't really have a web server/site I want to PDFs to be uploaded to - and in terms of a FTP, is there any you would recommend. I only have google drive which I don't think would work in this context, correct?

Russell Killips

over 4 years ago09/10/19 at 2:05 pm (UTC)

Hi Jordan,

I think your Step 3 is wrong. It says to put the PDF file where the story.html file resides. But your link isn't pointing to that location.

Try putting the PDF inside of the story_content/external_files folder

Justus Hoogendoorn

over 4 years ago09/11/19 at 11:36 am (UTC)

You could try to make a webpart and upload the pdf in that. Then trigger the button you want to open that slide / layer / lightbox.

Tessa McMahon

over 4 years ago09/12/19 at 3:34 am (UTC)

I'm having similar issues with attaching a PDF - in the article for how to attach a PDF it says:

"Later, when you publish, Storyline will include a copy of the file itself right along with your course content. The file will be in a folder called story_content/external files."

This isn't happening, so no one can open the PDF as it is linking to an internal hard-drive instead of creating and publishing a copy of the PDF in the SCORM package.

I'm trying to figure out how to make it a HTML but I'm seriously confused.. Any help would be awesome :)

over 4 years ago09/13/19 at 8:15 pm (UTC)

Hey Tessa. Sorry to hear this isn't working out for you. I think it might be best for our support team to take a closer look at your project to see if they can replicate this issue and lend a hand here. You can share your file(s) with us in a support case.

over 4 years ago09/16/19 at 8:02 am (UTC)

Hi Tessa,

Open a notepad and copy paste this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<object data="pdf_file_name.pdf" width="100%"height="1080px"></object> 
</body>
</html>

Have the pdf in the same folder as where you are going to save this and rename the <object data=" to the name of your pdf document.

Save the file as Index.html

Within Storyline you put in a webpart that links to the folder where you saved those files.

You can play around with the width and height.

Publish and you are good to go.

Credits to the OP: StyleLearn