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Forcing Web Object Update in Storyline
Basically Storyline never updates the WebObjects. It copies them at creation internally and uses those. So when changing anything on the files in the folder your WebObject uses...you need to remove your WO from Storyline and add it again. Thats dreadfull i know, but thats the way it is.
Hi Math,
Thanks for the confirmation. It's a hassle to keep deleting and adding, but nowhere near the hassle of not knowing that your changes aren't being loaded, so you think that they just didn't work...
Here was my workaround to the "no updating" problem, when I figured it out. I think your solution of deleting and recreating the web object is simpler. But for anyone that this might help, here's my workaround. Note that this method uses SCORMCLOUD, and not the 360 Articulate review site:
1. Publish Storyline as lms.
2. Update the index.html file in the source folder where you have created it.
3. Delete the previous version of index.html file in the Storyline webobject folder.
4. Copy the updated index.html file from its source folder, and paste it into the Storyline webobject folder.
5. Select everything in the Storyline course folder, and create a .zip file.
6. Create a new course in SCORM Cloud, and upload this zip file.
Best of luck, all!
Robert
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As i use WebObjects mostly to load external Javascript libraries i want to use...your solution aint for me ;-) When publishing Storyline creates a weirdly named folder... something like this path...
Storyline output\story_content\WebObjects\6Wmqd2qQb5k
The latter string-number is for any WebObject unique. As long as you leave the WebObject in Storyline...it will use the original files and data you had in your folder. I use that number in my code to see what and when WebObjects are loaded properly and trigger scripts with it.
If you change anything in your original folder...Storyline ignores it. Only when you delete the WebObject and add it again Storyline updates whats in the folder and uses it. Offcourse the path for the folder will change too with some weird string-number and you need to update that in your code :-)
