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Directly editing the video sources - safe?
Hello,
I have a question. I use Articulate storyline 360 to publish SCORMs to integrate into an existing LLM of a customer.
Currently I have no information on the LLM used by the customer, but I know that I have full compatibility with the SL360-exported SCORMs.
Since I have a series of videos in multiple languages, and I have to publish one each week, I thought about just changing the .mp4 sources in the story_content folder, keeping the original name.
I tested on my local server and it works, but I don't have the possibility to test on a real LLM. Is it safe to do so? Do I risk to create some conflicts because variables share the same names?
If you don’t change the name, or the type you should be safe.
If by “variables share same name” you mean having two files with the same name, then yes that will cause problems.
Even if they are in different directories?
why would you want to do something like that?
update a video in storyline with the Media Library and a new publish is not much effort and is safe
I wasn't really clear. As long as you copy the .mp4 file to the published folder, and upload it, you should be all right. You will have trouble if you change any part of the name, or if you have two files with the same name in the published folder. It doesn't matter where they originate.
Jurgen's point is well taken. Copying the videos will probably work; updating and republishing is guaranteed to work. You can't test it, and you don't have access to the LMS. Why take chances, if it's not necessary?
