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Articulate1SSi
Community Member
4 months ago

Embed PDF hosted privately on AWS

I am looking to host a PDF privately on AWS but have a rise course able to access it. I know that normally it requires a public access link to one but wondering if anyone found a way to do this
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Articulate1SSi
Community Member
4 months ago

After searching around I found my own solution to this. There is a line in the index.html file that is associated with pdfs. (AICC publish btw, haven't looked in others) That line has code in Base64 that has the external, public facing link within the iframe embed. If you take that code and decode, change the link to the assets folder within scormcontent and the pdf [src="assets/pdfname.pdf"] then you can use pdfs locally instead of from a public facing location. this preserves pdf security. if you don't have a reliable way to alter the code, I have found that your company's internal chatGPT can do it for you after a bit of training. good luck all!

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EricSantos
Staff
4 months ago

Hello Articulate1SSi,

Thanks so much for sharing this solution with the community! This is a really valuable workaround, and I’m sure it will be a big help to others who are looking for a way to embed PDFs securely in Rise without having to rely on a public-facing link.

Have a great day ahead.