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

ChristinLund366
Community Member
4 years ago
Is there a limit or maximum file size that can be attached? Thanks!
- Renz_Sevilla
  Staff
  4 years ago
  Hi Christin, the maximum file size for each document file, video, audio clip, and image you upload to a Rise 360 course is 5 GB.
AziNilipour-466
Community Member
4 years ago
Hi ... I have added attachments as PDF but my LMS does not like them and does not open them, so I use hyperlinks to those attachments and it is perfectly fine! Odd but works!
I am now wondering is it any way to hide the actual attachments?

Note, I know I could have hyperlinked to outside files but my LMS does not like that either :(

Anyone with a similar issue? or a better solution?
- CNavarro
  Former Staff
  4 years ago
  Hi Azi, have you reached out to your LMS support team? They might be able to allow the opening of the attachments in your Rise 360 course or provide a workaround.
OrestesRodrguez
Community Member
2 years ago
Tengo un problema que no puedo identificar que está pasando, al subir un archivo pdf que se exporto de un ppt, uno de los documentos lo abre directamente en una pestaña del navegador, y el otro abre la pestaña, pero inmediatamente se cierra y en el icono de descargas del navegador pregunta que hacer, si abrirlo o guardarlo o lo descarga automáticamente al dar clic. Qué es lo que tengo que modificar para que no pida guardarlo, lo que necesito es que al dar clic se abra el archivo sobre la pestaña siguiente del navegador.
- AngeloCruz
  Staff
  2 years ago
  Hello there! I understand you are encountering different results for how a .PDF file exported from a PowerPoint behaves when embedded in Rise.
  
  Would you be able to share the .PDF files so that we can have a closer look? You may upload it to us directly by opening a support case here. Our engineers would be happy to troubleshoot the issue with you.
  - TIMOTHYKUHN-533
    Community Member
    2 years ago
    my question was - or what i'm looking for - is a way for the user/trainee
    to upload documents to via a add attachments widget. I want the person or
    persons taking the module to be able to upload and send files to a
    repository for review.
    
    V/r, Tim
WendyFarmer-369
Community Member
2 years ago
Does anyone know the character limit for files added in the Attachment Block?
- Chris-Santos
  Staff
  2 years ago
  Hi Wendy,
  
  I don't think we have this officially documented, but I am thinking the limit might be around 265 characters (which will include the names of folders and subfolders where the file is contained. I say this because I have seen posts where LMS uploads were failing if resource file names exceed this number.
  
  Having said that, I was able to upload a course to SCORM Cloud with an Attachment block that has a file name of 128 characters. And while the upload was successful, the name overflowed beyond the frame allotted for the block:
  
  To be safe, it might be best to put a limit of 60 characters so that the file name and extension will fit within the Attachment block frame.
MichaelMarti869
Community Member
2 years ago
Great block! I use it to attach PDFs and excel files. Thanks, Articulate 360 team!