Exporting Variables into a Google Spreadsheet

@ Ken. I tried following all the instructions and still struggled.

I came across this website 

https://helpdesk.courseware.nl/hc/en-us/articles/205740482-Articulate-Storyline-Export-to-Google-Drive

It has a built in template that can be used for your projects. I haven't had any problems but anything can happen.

Hope this helps.

@Steve, you're a genius. How did you ever figure out the form entry ID thing? That's brilliant.

If you don't want to use the iFrame method, you can use Jquery pretty easily. I don't like to do post publish surgery so I use a bit of Javascript to jack jquery into the head of the document at runtime. Note that you need to load this well ahead of your AJAX calls. Don't try to load this and your AJAX call in the same trigger. 

function add_script(scriptURL,oID) {
var scriptEl = document.createElement("script");
var head=document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
scriptEl.type = "text/javascript";
scriptEl.src = scriptURL;
scriptEl.id=oID;
head.appendChild(scriptEl);}

//only want to add these once!

if(document.getElementById('jquery')==null){
add_script("https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.1/jquery.min.js","jquery");
}

In a separate trigger (give it some time after your JQUERY head load):

var player=GetPlayer();
var vStudent=player.GetVar("studentName");
var vSupervisor=player.GetVar("supervisorName");
var vFacility=player.GetVar("facilityName");

var fTarget="https://docs.google.com/a/nara.gov/forms/d/YOURUNIQUEFORMID/formResponse";

function submit_form(){

$.ajax({
url: fTarget,
type: "GET",
data: {"entry.1481580269" :vStudent,"entry.1244291729":vSupervisor,"entry.2088465962":vFacility},

success: function(data) {
//won't return since it's cross domain
}

});
return false;

}
setTimeout(submit_form(), 2000);

(2/2) There are a couple of ways to run submission. The first is pretty simple and doesn't require JQuery. This creates an invisible iframe and submits using that iFrame. This works pretty consistently for me. Since we aren't looking for any return to the AJAX call, this is probably lighter weight than the JQuery version. 

var player=GetPlayer();

var questionID = player.GetVar("team");
var choice =player.GetVar("choice");
var questionID=player.GetVar("qRef");
var category=player.GetVar("category");
var formEvent=player.GetVar("formEvent"); //I put the URL listed under step 3 in the first part of this post into a Storyline variable. 
var region=player.GetVar("region");
var role=player.GetVar("role");

var goURL=formEvent+"?entry.439953588="+username+"&entry.1756523096="+category+"&entry.1042712636="+questionID+"&entry.769939824="+choice+"&entry.771181539="+region+"&entry.818358780="+role;

if(document.getElementById('sendGoogle')){
var elem = document.getElementById("sendGoogle");
elem.parentElement.removeChild(elem);
}

ifrm = document.createElement("IFRAME");
ifrm.setAttribute("src", goURL);
ifrm.id="sendGoogle";
ifrm.style.visibility = "hidden";
document.body.appendChild(ifrm);

Hey, all -

(1/2) I've stopped using the script method awhile ago. The less complicated way to tackle this uses a Google Form paired with a Google Spreadsheet. 

1. Create a Google Form. Pair it with a Spreadsheet. 
2. Use the prefilled form option in Google Forms to grab your name/value pair variable names. You'll get something that looks like this. I add the names I want to reference into the fields before submitting.
   https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeL2Z8hvyxK_EipeC7Fc8NDncE3VtVsMMsQZIOkCfkOPSLKgQ/viewform?entry.1518353193=NAMEFIELD&entry.1403774106=COLORFIELD&entry.1433875917=NUMBERFIELD
3. You'll set your AJAX function to target the form response address. It's the same address as your form except it ends with formResponse instead of viewForm. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeL2Z8hvyxK_EipeC7Fc8NDncE3VtVsMMsQZIOkCfkOPSLKgQ/formResponse

Steve Flowers Do you have any suggestions? 

Thanks to Kate for all the work, but I wish someone would create a template and instructions that exports data to google sheets or ??.

Hi All,

I have had this script up and rolling and now, poof!  Can't make it work!

I even tried a brand new course and it is not working!  Any one else having this problem?

cdb

WordPress site is HTTP:// and it's hosted on go-daddy.   So do I needed to move to https?  Nothing showing in spreadsheet.  I pretty sure spreadsheet is not the problem.  I can test it in google sheets and adds new rows, or course with 'undefined' because there's no data.

I followed the example that Kate's so graciously shared

Hmm.. Looks like you're using a script method. Are you attempting to return data from the script? If submitting data using a standard form, you'll always get an error like this.

In your Wordpress launch, are you using http:// or https://? Appears in your error that the launch is coming from http://. Can't mix the two or it will throw an error.