Changing "Story.html"
Sep 12, 2012
By
Rev Michelle
Once a presentation published in Storyline it gets the extension "story.html". Can this be changed or will changing it cause problems with the presentation?
For example:
I would like to create interactive tutorials for people who are starting a new ministry. Each one would have a different tutorial like "How to start" that I would have as "start.html" , "How to choose a location", that would be "location.html" I wanted them in the same folder and to link to each presentation.
Is this possible (or even advisable)? Thank you for your time.
12 Replies
Hi,
Do not think this is possible - you have all the other duplicate file/folder names too...
What is the problem with using 1 x folder for each course, and always linking to the story.html file, albeit using different words in your menu, (or however you are doing it)?
Bruce
Thank you so much for your response. There really isn't a problem using a different folder for each course.
Again thank you, Mr. Graham, for your time and response.
Still, I wonder this as well. What if I don't want to use story.html? Anyway around having to use the same start name? Any successfully hacked it?
Hmm, just tried an experiment. Renamed the output of a course (non-LMS) from story.html to index.html.
Seemed to work just fine.
You can rename the story.html file, in fact if you wanted to use it as a web object you would need to rename it to index.html. You can call it whatever you want but the others files must stay the same
If you are publishing to LMS you would be best leaving the name the same though
I would think, actually, that renaming index_lms.html to something else would work, as long as you don't then rename story.html.
Index_lms.html loads some LMS communication Javascript stuff and then calls story.html.
sorry Gerry missed your post, agree with you you could rename story_lms.html
NP, my Friend!
Don't think this will help in this case, but if anyone's interested I have had luck changing the file extension to .asp so that I can add some protective code prior to the html. I've done a number of Presenter courses and at least one Storyline set using that technique.
I routinely change the story.html to something else. If I change it to default.html, then a call to the directory (without explicitely calling story.html) makes the links a little cleaner. I also add javascript tracking code into the story.html file so that I can see who, when, and how many times the project is run.
I would just like to say Thank you to each of you for answering my question. Your reponse and knowledge has been such a blessing to me. Especially learning that one can not only change the name, but the extension and that with javascript one could add tracking.
Again, Thank you for the wealth of information!!!! Many blessings.
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