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PoukhanAnthony's avatar
PoukhanAnthony
Community Member
2 months ago

Articulate Rise Share Link

An ID I know created a wellness toolkit in Articulate Rise and shared it using the Rise share link as the weblink, instead of publishing it on the web. Since it’s a toolkit and not a course, she doesn’t need to track people, but she’s distributing it widely. I suggested she publish it on the web instead of relying on the share link, and she asked why. Honestly, I didn’t have a clear answer.

I recall reading on Articulate's site that the share link isn’t meant for long-term publishing or hosting, but I’m not technically savvy enough to explain why. She sent the link to many people. When I checked it out, everything seemed to work fine.

She did this for another project 8 months ago, and it still works fine. 

Does anyone know why the share link shouldn’t be used as a permanent publishing method? TIA!

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  • JohnPinkster-19's avatar
    JohnPinkster-19
    Community Member
    2 months ago

    From an outsiders perspective, it's probably fine to do. There are a couple of considerations worth noting but at the end of the day, I would think this is easier then getting IT involved and hosting it elsewhere: 

    1. You are relying on Articulate to serve this content. They have great reliability so no real concern there.
    2. You are always showing the latest version. This could be good or bad. The downside is that if you are ever work-in-progress on changes, people will see that live with you. Could be a great thing but could also be in "draft" and not ideal. Depending on your content, this might not matter much.
    3. It shouldn't ever change, but it could. Since you don't control this hosting, Articulate could decide to change the nature of these share URLs. This again, is very low risk as this will probably never happen, especially without backwards compatibility from them. 

    Those are my thoughts on the "risk" but to me, the reward well outweighs the risk! 

    • KarlMuller's avatar
      KarlMuller
      Community Member
      2 months ago

      It should be noted that a few months ago, Articulate renamed the Share link to the Preview link.

      This statement seems to provide clarity about the acceptable use of the preview link: 

      Quickly share in-progress work with your colleagues.

       

  • SamHill's avatar
    SamHill
    Super Hero
    2 months ago

    Hi PoukhanAnthony I think it is a risky approach.

    For example, if the course was very popular, and started to drive a large amount of traffic to the Articulate website, this would raise a red flag for the Articulate team and they would look into why a Preview link was driving so much traffic. If this happened over an extended period, I think you would be asked to remove the Preview link as it is not the expected use. This I think would be a real risk.

    The other risk to your client is if your account is discontinued for any reason, I believe the Preview link would go with it.

    There is more control over how the content is served is using a dedicated webserver. Articulate are not bound by any contract, I doubt, to keep that Preview link live, but a website provider is bound by a contract to keep your web server running.

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