Adding multiple Resource files in one step

Hi Blair, 

I think you're referring to the directions here on how to link to files that appear in the Resource section of the player. 

I can't think of a way to add more than one file at a time, but you could definitely give the method you wrote out here a try and see how it behaves? It's not something I can offer support for, but it's worth a try! 

Hi Blair,

It looks like part of your response was perhaps cut off here? Just in case you wanted to update it and share the additional info. 

Thanks for the reply – I actually did review that same item right after I posted and that was a major help.

 I did find a handy workaround for getting lots of files into resources at once. I created my presentation and just added one file via Resources to ensure that the “external_files” folder would be there. However, I didn’t upload my files using the Resource tab in the Player setup. (That’s the part that would take someone forever.)

 What I did instead was, in the presentation, I used the hyperlink model as above, and pointed the hyperlink to a file that wasn’t yet in the external_files folder at the time. I just copied and pasted this:

story_content/external_files/insertfilenamehere#page=insertpagenumberhere

Since I had to recycle this hyperlink command a lot, I found it easier to put in the generic code first, then circle around to edit whatever was 'insert'  Also, I put in that # item to open the PDF reference to a specific page.

 When I published the production, I went into the output files, went into the story_content/external_files folder, and dropped a bunch of things in there, including the items I had linked to. It worked!

 It’s helpful, because my production references a number of specific Resource files as links, but also contains a lot of extra ones so the user has access to the whole library. When you have like 10 links, but 100 total files, putting stuff in the folder later is really handy.

 Blair

Nicely done Blair, and I appreciate you sharing that write up for others who may come across this discussion! 

3 years later, and adding multiple files is still not an option.  I'm facing a similar issue where I have 26-30 or more resources to add to 7 modules and have to do them one at a time.... I wish there was a batch import option 

Hi folks,

Just stumbled on this issue too. I have 14 resources to add and doing it one by one is a bit of a pain.

Same here! I need to add 40 files and it's taking forever, surely a batch input feature can't be hard to work into an update. 

It's been 5 years and still, we can't upload multiple files at once!

Gah it is so time consuming and frustrating - please make uploading a batch of resource links possible!