Forum Discussion
Export to Powerpoint from Storyline
Some of these customer contributions are almost laughable, for several reasons:
- Articulate did not build Storyline because they had enough feature requests for a long enough time period. Neither did Apple build the iPhone or the iPad because enough people complained for far too long. Great things are built by outstanding engineers doing what they do best--innovating. Articulate innovates better than most, and they shouldn't allow themselves to be distracted by noisy chatter about feature requests, particularly if the request makes little sense (see #2).
- Expecting Storyline to export to PowerPoint is like asking AutoCAD to save drawings as text, or like asking PhotoShop to save images as word documents. It could probably be done, but it makes literally zero logical sense. I don't expect Articulate to divert precious Engineering resources away from Rise and Storyline to spend months building something that 0.01% of their customers will use.
- We shouldn't attack staff who are only here trying to help. Not only are the Community Moderators not decision-making executives, but they're also kind, helpful, and technically adept at what they do. Even offering to monitor such a wacky request is a gift. Greet kindness with kindness.
I understand that not everyone has worked in software, but let's be reasonable. Thank you Articulate for focusing on the right things, and thank you staff for devoting your days to helping people!
Karen, you are obviously not one who tries to meet the needs of your clients. Feature request are a way to track user desires for upcoming releases of a product. I design and deliver CBT to various clients. I ALWAYS ask if there are "features" that would help my product better achieve their needs. Although I am not a software programmer, I don't think that exporting from Storyline to PowerPoint is anything like your analogies in #2 since the product will go the other way. Referring to this as a "wacky request" is very disrespectful to all those who have participated in this discussion. If this is so wacky, please enlighten us on some details to support your position on disregarding this feature.
-Vic
Karen, I do believe Articulate is an innovative product, and chose it for my team because of the ease of use and strong functionality, However, I'm wondering if your use of the product is just a bit different than the way the rest of us on the thread use it. A lot of organizations have a need for collaboration between teams, vendors, and SMEs. This program is expensive. I cannot justify a $1200/year purchase for anyone other than the staff that is actively creating training materials, although I do have a need to have others perform housekeeping items, like making small adjustments to slides/scripts. The Word output and online review doesn't provide all that is needed for this. Another consideration is that some of our teams will present a PowerPoint from the original course we created - it's just the way things are - business logistics. I hope this helps in understanding why this topic is not laughable, and why users continue to pipe in on this topic after 6 years. I do believe Articulate can do this, I also believe that a great deal more than 0.01% would utilize this feature request. This program isn't cheap, and Articulate should be listening. It is their job to listen - in all honesty, they work for us. We purchase their product, and it's not the only product on the market. What we're saying is that we don't want to switch products, but we need this feature. I hope this helps in understanding where some of us are coming from on this thread.
