Glossary import Export

Has anyone confirmed this glossary work around works in 360? I understand the steps and am trying this for 360. After rezipping and renaming as .story, the file reports as corrupt when trying to open in 360. Anyone else face this issue and have a solution?

Hello Leisa,

Hopefully Zio is still subscribed here and can pop in and help you out with this workaround he shared.

We advise setting up a template when you need to use your glossary in other projects as you can read about here.

With so many eLearning courses being being developed as mini-modules, having the Glossary tied to the Player's xml makes sense. At least create an app that will allow you to export/import a CSV file into the glossary. The Glossary should be exportable and importable. 

Thanks Emerson for that idea, we'll keep you posted if this makes our product roadmap. 

What is the trick to the first step? 

You must know that each .story file is a sort of big zip archive, so you can access several resource inside it, by renaming from .story to .zip.

Go into file explorer. There are a lot of ways to do this, but pressing win + e will work.

Navigate to the location of the current project. If you don't know where that is, open it in SL, and start to do a Save As ... That will open a window, and you can read the location at the top of it.

Backup your project. Completing the Save As action is one way to create a backup.

Back in File Explorer, look for Nameof YourProject.story. If you don't see the .story part, you will need to change the View setting to show extensions. The View setting is located in different locations for different versions of Windows, so if you can't find it, search for it in your favorite search engine.

Once you can see the .story part of the file name, right click the name of the file and choose Rename. Change the "story" to "zip", but don't change the "."  or any other part of the name. You will get a message asking if you are sure. Answer yes, and you are on your way.

Note that SL can't find or open that project until you change the "zip" back to "story".

Thanks Walt!!  Worked great!  btw, kudo's to Zio for figuring this out!!!  HUGE time-saver!

Thanks, Zio !! Worked great! HUGE time-saver!

In Windows 7 or higher, select all the files and right click. Zipping is one option, probably under the Send to option.

Can this be added as a product feature rather than having to do all this work?