Hey Everyone, You asked for it so we built it - the all new Attachment Block. It makes it super easy to add attachments (PDF, Word, Excel, or any filetype) to your Rise courses. Check out this video (recorded with Peek and hosted on Articulate Review, of course.) https://360.articulate.com/review/content/aaf8d183-c0d8-492e-9f3f-79c1c9b3bfca/review Enjoy! Adam

This is a very exciting and useful addition, but why can't we choose the title to display? File names for the web normally don't have any spaces and aren't always easy to read in that format, even with dashes or underscores. In fact, when you upload a document called something like ''Document.docx’, you download a file called something like ‘wnjrnr4w_9C78w8h-document.docx’, which is a very long and unclear file name.

I need this feature to link to documents stored in a content repository, and to be able to rename the file name. We have multiple Rise objects that might link to the same file, if that file gets updated, I need to know that this change is going to filter through to all locations where it is embedded

Love the attachment block and I agree with Michelle's suggestion (similar to how we can display a title for the button block). Keep up the great work!

Hi Wout, If you're looking at adding Resources onto a slide in Storyline, you can still use the Resource tab to make this a bit easier. You'll want to follow the steps here to add the files to your Resource tab and then you can create links to the files on individual slides. The Resource tab will need to be enabled only on one slide in the course to generate that folder in your output. So you can also set that to appear on one slide within the slide properties by using the "custom player settings" and learners never need to see that slide if you don't add triggers to direct anyone there. If you need a PDF icon, check out some of the downloadable assets we've shared here in the E-Learning Heroes community!

Absolutely awesome thank you!!! I needed this TODAY!! #fistpump

Attachment Block - Now Available! | Articulate

82 Replies

SharonLehman-e1
Community Member
9 years ago
Absolutely awesome thank you!!! I needed this TODAY!! #fistpump
AdamSchwartz
Staff
9 years ago
👊
JudithWaugh-399
Community Member
9 years ago
Imagine my surprise when I saw the block a few hrs ago! Watching your clip and seeing the stack with the colours for PDF, Word and ZIP makes it look very streamlined. Thanks for adding this feature. The ZIP file will be particularly useful!

Thanks so much!
TroyAshman
Community Member
9 years ago
Yay! Thanks Articulate. This is perfect and couldn't come at a better time for me. :D
MichelleAllan
Community Member
9 years ago
This is a very exciting and useful addition, but why can't we choose the title to display? File names for the web normally don't have any spaces and aren't always easy to read in that format, even with dashes or underscores. In fact, when you upload a document called something like ''Document.docx’, you download a file called something like ‘wnjrnr4w_9C78w8h-document.docx’, which is a very long and unclear file name.
- HelenaSmith-805
  Community Member
  9 years ago
  Are you referring to the name of the attachment?
  - MichelleAllan
    Community Member
    9 years ago
    For example, if I had a file named "week-one-handbook.docx", I wouldn't want it to display as that, I'd want to be able to give it a title like "Week One – Handbook" or similar.
- DavidTait
  Super Hero
  7 years ago
  
  Michelle Allan
  
  This is a very exciting and useful addition, but why can't we choose the title to display? File names for the web normally don't have any spaces and aren't always easy to read in that format, even with dashes or underscores. In fact, when you upload a document called something like ''Document.docx’, you download a file called something like ‘wnjrnr4w_9C78w8h-document.docx’, which is a very long and unclear file name.
  
  I'd find it helpful if we could rename the display title of the documents too.
LoriSullivan
Community Member
9 years ago
Love the attachment block and I agree with Michelle's suggestion (similar to how we can display a title for the button block). Keep up the great work!
MichaelFimian
Community Member
9 years ago
Great addition! Thanks Adam and the Dev Team...
AlexanderSalas
Community Member
9 years ago
Schweet deal! Thank you guys this is great!
SharonLehman-e1
Community Member
9 years ago
This is so awesome - used it extensively last night, Thank you!
JimVale
Community Member
9 years ago
This is great - I can already think of a dozen ways I want to use this in my courses. Thanks!