This example demonstrates how you can take user input and generate a certificate for printing. Any Storyline variable or score can be used to generate the output. The file and file add-ins are both simple and straight forward. This will only work in the Flash based output. This will not work in the iOS output or HTML5. See it in action Take a look at the Story file Download the Certificate Add-in files To replicate this on your end: 1) Modify the story file to your liking. 2) Extract the add-in zip file above (certificate.html and certificateBG.gif) 3) Copy these two files into your published output directory. You'll need to do this each time you publish. This is a really basic example. You really can do quite a bit with this including adding a print button, extra fields, collecting values from the LMS like the user's first and last name. ** I noticed a bug when playing with this file setup. I initially thought I would be able to include the certificate files as resources to avoid copy / paste surgery after publish. Unfortunately, Storyline mangled the HTML file on publish. Will be submitting this as a bug.

Has anyone come up with a solution that can work for both HTML5 and Flash-version courses? I'd be willing to include a solution for each if there is a way to do so. I have uploaded an abbreviated version of what I've been asked to do. I need the certificate to print just as it appears in the second slide. Is there a way to have a single slide appear without any player information so it is simply what is on the "stage"? Steve's example is great, but the fact it goes haywire in HTML5 is concerning as we are developing this course for users all over the globe and the HTML5. Thanks in advance!

Hi - I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get the certificate to print in landscape orientation by default (without the user having to change the print preferences). My understanding is that this would be a setting in the html document, but not quite sure how to set it up.

I keep it simple. when my storyline file opens, I get the date. It is the first thing the first slide does. This lets me display the date throughout the course. Here is the code I use. var today = new Date(); var dd = today.getDate(); var mm = today.getMonth()+1; //January is 0! var yyyy = today.getFullYear(); if(dd<10) { dd='0'+dd } if(mm<10) { mm='0'+mm } today = mm+'/'+dd+'/'+yyyy; var player = GetPlayer(); player.SetVar("SystemDate",today); The certificate java is at the end of the course. Keeping them separate makes it easier to trouble shoot. My certificate java looks like this: myWindow = window.open("","Print","width=900,height=700,scrollbars=0,resizable=0"); var player=GetPlayer(); var course=player.GetVar("CourseName"); var username=player.GetVar("NewName"); var date=player.GetVar("SystemDate"); var score=player.GetVar("ScorePercent"); var contents ='<html></head><style type="text/css">'; contents+='h2 {font-family:"Museo Sans For Dell"; font-size:20px; color:#333333}'; contents+='h3 {font-family:"Museo Sans For Dell"; font-size:30px; color:#0085C3}'; contents+='h4 {font-family:"Museo Sans For Dell"; font-size:16px; vertical-align:bottom}'; contents+='</style><body>'; contents+='<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">'; contents+='<tr><td><center><img src="../GFPA0104/certificate/CertificateBanner.png"></center></td></tr></table>'; contents+='<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20">'; contents+='<tr><td colspan="5"><center><h2>THE GLOBAL FP&A L&D TEAM CERTIFIES THAT</h2>'; contents+='<h3>'+username+'</h3>'; contents+='<h2>HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED</h2>'; contents+='<h3>'+course+'</h3>'; contents+='<h2>WITH A SCORE OF</h2>'; contents+='<h3>'+score+'%</h3></center></td></tr></table>'; contents+='<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tr>'; contents+='<td width="30%"><center><img src="../GFPA0104/certificate/Signature.png"></center></td>'; contents+='<td width="5%" rowspan="2"></td>'; contents+='<td width="30%"><center><h4>'+date+'</h4></center></td>'; contents+='<td width="15%" rowspan="2"></td>'; contents+='<td width="20%" rowspan="2"><img src="../GFPA0104/certificate/Dell-Logo.png"></td></tr>'; contents+='<tr><td><center><img src="../GFPA0104/certificate/Signature Line.png"></center></td>'; contents+='<td><center><img src="../GFPA0104/certificate/Date Line.png"></center></td></tr></table>'; contents+='</body></html>'; myWindow.document.write(contents); myWindow.document.close(); myWindow.focus(); myWindow.print();

Whilst I was able to generate the certificate ...it always was blank without the results... went crazy trying to work out java code... the reason for buying articulate is I don't want to do coding I don't have an IT background...... but then just as I was drifting off to sleep.... it came to me and it was easy... I used variables and just changed the results screen into a certificate.. with voice over right click and print... easy and works great for me... low tech I know but it was exactly what I wanted... Happy to do a screener if anyone needs it...

After reading through this lengthy thread, I just submitted a feature request. Here's what I said: Hi there! I have a new client who needs me to provide a traditional certificate (filigreed border and all) at the end of a course, pulling data for name, date, course title, and test score. In a foreign language. And it needs to be printable. I looked in Storyline, and then in the forum, and was amazed to find you folks still don't provide a ready-to-use Results slide in the form of a customizable, printable certificate template within the Articulate 360 suite. As you know, this is a feature Adobe Captivate has offered for a few years now. I watched your old video about revising the Report.html file. That's too much work for many of your customers, who may not have the basic code-tweaking skills needed. And having to manually place the file in the appropriate folder after publish? A recipe for mistakes to be made. I read that your reasoning is you consider proof of completion to be the province of a company's LMS. But as you've acknowledged, there are companies who don't use an LMS, or still want a traditional certificate the learner can print out at the end of the course, within the course, even if the company does use an LMS. As you know from the attached forum thread, people have been asking you for this feature for at least six years, and continue to ask for it currently. Isn't this something that would be a really huge WIN for you folks to produce? Couldn't you create a good-looking template with editable certificate title (for foreign language clients), and learner name, date, score, and course title variable fields, include the coding to make it easily printable, and make that available to all your users as a Results slide option? All the course creator should need to do is conform their variable titles to those you use (or, you make them editable). I do hope you will at last revisit and reconsider your position on this ongoing basic need. It would be hugely appreciated by many of your customers. Thanks!

Example files: Generating a certificate from Storyline

DaveFulle
Community Member
13 years ago

HI Asif,

In the HTML file (open with Notepad or something) change learner name get VAR from "learner" to "TextEntry?" (you'll need to match the text entry box in the Storyline project to the one in the HTML file so I can't give you that exact TextEntry name) and also change the file name of the graphic from "certificateBG.gif" to "CertificateBG.gif" to match what the HTML file was calling.

Hope that helps!
asifraja
Community Member
13 years ago

Dave Fulle said:

HI Asif,

In the HTML file (open with Notepad or something) change learner name get VAR from "learner" to "TextEntry?" (you'll need to match the text entry box in the Storyline project to the one in the HTML file so I can't give you that exact TextEntry name) and also change the file name of the graphic from "certificateBG.gif" to "CertificateBG.gif" to match what the HTML file was calling.

Hope that helps!

cheers Dave. will give this a go.
NancyWoinoski
Super Hero
13 years ago

Well, I finally figured out why my variables were not passing to the certificate.html. I was trying to pass a numeric variable with a score as well as the text variable containing the learner's name.

To get this to work, I had to add a .toString(); to the numeric one as follows:

var scoreTotal=player.GetVar("userScore").toString();
JohnBasco
Community Member
13 years ago

Hi Everybody

How should I call the following data into Certificate.html

Quiz Name or Module name

Score?

Can somebody help me please?
GerryWasiluk
Community Member
13 years ago

Hey, Steve! Got a couple of questions on this.

Have a potential client possibly interested in this for a course that will be run through a LMS, either as AICC or SCORM 1.2. On the generated certificate, the date of completion needs to be on it. Using something like the JavaScript date/time function in the Quizmaker report.html, this is easy to pull out for showing the current.

However, what if the user comes back 6 months later to reprint the certificate? We need the original completion date put in the certificate when it is generated then and not the current data and time.

On the certificate, we also need to print out a date 3 years from the completion date--as that is when the completion expires. I'm assuming that can be done with some JavaScript?

This is for product training certification for external people using the company's products so having the right dates is crucial.

I'm thinking with variables, resume, and some creative JavaScript this might be all possible?
SteveFlowers
Community Member
13 years ago

Hey, Gerry - Should be totally possible. You'll want to add some slide logic that commits the date of completion and doesn't let them overwrite that completion until another fresh attempt / new enrollment. I'll play with it a bit later today but everything you describe should be easy to pull off

Steve
GerryWasiluk
Community Member
13 years ago

Thanks, Steve! Let me know what you find out. I'm more of a JavaScript bumbler than anything and need all the help and direction I can get there.

Just curious--how do you work around Storyline not having a date/time variable?
SteveFlowers
Community Member
13 years ago
JavaScript takes care of that As long as you're not using the AMP, should be workable. Works in HTML5 and the Flash / Desktop version.
GerryWasiluk
Community Member
13 years ago

Hey, Steve! Just wondering if you ever had a chance to play around around with the issue I raised.

No rush and not bugging you too much I hope ). Just grateful for your help so far (and always).
CurtisKynerd
Community Member
13 years ago
I have tried to make this work in my LMS to no avail. I get a message that says this file cannot be found. I have been experiencing other network or LMS issues lately and wonder if the two are related. Could there be issues related to IE security settings, or version differences in Java that might be affecting things? Attached is my version of the Certificate. I am grateful for any direction or advice. Thanks.
problem+quiz.story2 MB