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DaveRay
Community Member
12 years ago

Can users copy text from a screen?

Hi,

I've explored a few of the posts regarding editable text fields, which I'm able to create. What I'd really like though is for learners to be able to copy text from a field in a course.

Why? Several reasons. One important one is for review / admin purposes. Each screen is given a unique ID number that displays on the a screen, and when reviewers / users find a bug, typo, etc., they would reference that page via this code.

I've accomplished this in other eLearning authoring systems by creating (manually or dynamically) a selectable text field on each screen that the user can copy the ID from. This is preferential to the user manually typing it out as that is time-consuming and copy/pasting is less prone to error.

So, that said, is it doable? Can I have a user-selectable text field the contents of which can be copied?

Thanks all.

Dave

storyline 360

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  • AhmedGendya's avatar
    AhmedGendya
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Hi Ren, 

     

    Thanks for your reply. 

    I want the student to be able to copy text from screen to a side notepad, which I created using the text entry field. 

     

    My module will be published to AWS using the "web" publish option. 

     

    I have passed through the threads but unfortunately, I cannot find a solution there. Any advice please? 

  • LaurenDuvall's avatar
    LaurenDuvall
    Staff
    5 years ago

    Hello Ahmed!

    Thank you for sharing this with us! I can see how copying text would be necessary for this type of interaction. We don't currently offer a way to copy text from a Storyline 360 course unless it's in an entry field. 

    I'm happy to share this request with my team to continue tracking how many customers are interested in the option to copy text from a Storyline 360 course. 

  • AhmedGendya's avatar
    AhmedGendya
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Hi Lauren, 

     

    Thank you so much for your reply. 

    I believe that I saw now a bunch of requests while searching this issue :) 

    I hope this feature is available soon. 

     

    Thank you .. 

  • AhmedGendya's avatar
    AhmedGendya
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Hi Jon .. 

     

    Thank you so much .. I will check this soon  .. 

  • MaksKnyazev's avatar
    MaksKnyazev
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Also, you can use this JS action when user click some element. It's not working when publish in Articulate Review, but work in lms.

    navigator.clipboard.writeText('text for copy')

    • PaulBrophy-6bfa's avatar
      PaulBrophy-6bfa
      Community Member
      3 years ago

      Amazing thank you Maks. This works a treat for me locally but my LMS stops it for some reason. Still though very impressive and efficient, thank you!