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