Copy/Paste Images from one story to another

Hi Martin and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

I'm not seeing that behavior when I copy/paste between the two, but I'll second Walt's suggestion of importing slides vs copy/paste as well.

Apologies for my late reply I thought I had done already. 

Thanks Walt, your suggestion has worked fine, it's just a pain that there has to be a workaround for something that is simple functionality across most other programs.

I'd say if something doesn't work correctly it shouldn't be in the released version, that's what we would all do if a course wasn't behaving properly right?  

Leslie, this is consistently reproducible and is exacerbated if copying multiple items, specifically the entire contents of one slide in one project to a blank slide in a separate project. 

If it's relating to corruption of files then there must be some deeper underlying issue as it does seem like this happens a lot.  It happens with all the devs in my company and several of my out of work dev friends who also work with SL. 

Hopefully this is something you can rectify as remembering to import a project for the sake of copying and pasting one image or a layout is very irritating in terms of workflow. 

Hi Martin,

If copying one whole slide to another project, importing it would definitely be my recommendation as that would keep all the items together and set up as you initially designed.  

With the latest version of Storyline 3 or 360, you can copy objects or groups of objects from Storyline and paste them into other applications.

• Shapes, images, text boxes, or selected multiple objects will now copy, as arranged, to your clipboard with bitmap and png data. The program into which you paste the content will determine if the png or bitmap data is used, and will display as follows:
  
         ◂bitmap: image will display with a white background
         ◂png: image will display the original shape/group of shapes with no background. 
                   (MS Office will read this data).
• If you have a single audio or video, you can copy and paste those into applications that support media file paths.
• Highlighting and copying text within a text box will give you .txt or .rtf format for pasting.

Since you're seeing that copy/paste behavior have unintended consequences between two versions of Storyline, it would be helpful to see the steps you're going through and anything that could be hindering it. Also, since you mentioned corruption I wanted to point out some known causes of corruption here. 

I can't copy/paste between Storyline files of the same version, it is incredibly frustrating as it wastes time.

Hey Jake,

You're using Storyline 3, correct?

What items do you have difficulty copying/pasting? I'd be happy to take a look.

Yes it is Storyline 3, not 360.

It's strange because its not consistent, sometimes it will copy images and sometimes not.

For example I've had to save background images out so I can import them into another project, but the top bar which is a group of images and text boxes copied over fine.

I thought it might be if something is grouped it copys better but I tried grouping the background image and it still didn't copy. On another day the background images did copy though, it seems to change daily.

Hmmm, that certainly sounds frustrating Jake.

I've not run into issues with copy/paste before and the inconsistency you are reporting may be why.

Also curious if you're using keyboard commands or right-click or the ribbon buttons? I'm curious if there is any consistency/pattern that may be happening there.

I've tried both keyboard commands and right-click menu, but I get the same results for both.

I can't seem to find any pattern.

Hi Ashley, 

The only steps are: 

1. select an image in SL project one 

2. copy it using either right click or Ctrl+c

3. paste it in SL project two using either right click or Ctrl+v

The exhibited behaviour exactly mirrors what you have described above as copying to an application other than SL, IE: blank shape or white box depending on image type. 

As I said above Import works fine but it's far from an ideal solution.  

Thanks for sharing those steps Martin.

I opened two instances of Storyline 3 and was able to do all of the steps above successfully between two projects. 

I am unable to come up with an empty shape/white box. 

Curious if it's a particular image type? Would you be able to share a sample .story file with an image you're experiencing difficulty with so that I could take a look?