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MateuszSzuter-e's avatar
MateuszSzuter-e
Community Member
4 days ago

Ability to copy texts from Storyline course on Review platform

Hello,

Maybe with the all recent, positive changes it is a good moment to ask for this feature :)

So when it comes to review, our stakeholders often comes to one conclusion - it is not particularly friendly to the reviewer. I love the pretty new "Screenshot annotation" panel it already helps a lot when discussing layouts, design etc.

But most things that are corrected are texts. And right now, there's no possibility to extract the raw text from Review to a comment pane. I got that it was hard with the old text systems, as all of the texts was basically the svg 'figures'. But right now, when we have the Accessible Text feature (which we probably can agree that is working quite great) that produces raw html text in the DOM, can't Review allow to copy texts (at least the obvious ones) or maybe "Extract all texts" function from the current slide? It would make life easier A LOT. For everyone. I'll just need to copy/paste the text, my Reviewer will just correct the sentence, without the need of rewriting it.

Do Articulate team see it possible and a good feature?

 

4 Replies

  • Nedim's avatar
    Nedim
    Community Member
    2 days ago

    MateuszSzuter-e​ 

    If you don’t mind adding a small JavaScript snippet at the Slide Master level, I may be able to help you add this functionality to your project. See below:

     

      • Nedim's avatar
        Nedim
        Community Member
        58 minutes ago

        MateuszSzuter-e​ 

        Run this code on a Slide Master (Execute JavaScript when the timeline starts on this slide):

        document.querySelectorAll('svg text').forEach(el =>
  Object.assign(el.style, {
    pointerEvents: 'auto',
    userSelect: 'text'
  })
);

document.addEventListener('contextmenu', e => e.stopPropagation(), true);


        You can still highlight and copy all text using Ctrl + C. The last line of the code re-enables the right-click context menu. If you don’t need this, you can simply comment it out or remove it.

  • EricSantos's avatar
    EricSantos
    Staff
    2 days ago

    Hi MateuszSzuter-e,

    That’s a great callout, and I can see how this would make a big difference for both authors and reviewers.

    Being able to copy text directly from Review 360, or extract it from a slide, would definitely make the review process more efficient. Especially when most feedback is focused on wording, having to retype everything adds unnecessary friction.

    It’s also helpful that you connected this to the Accessible Text feature. That context really highlights how this could build on existing functionality in a meaningful way.

    This is a thoughtful suggestion, and I’ll be sure to share it with our product team for consideration.