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How to create a new project without closing the one that's currently open?
Hello Articulate Developers,
My question is simple:
How can I create a new project without closing the one that's currently open?
What happens now:
- A project is open
- I click on File -> New
- I get the question if I want to save the project
- I click on Save
- The project that was open, is closed
- A new empty project is open
How can I create a new project without step 5 happing?
Thanks in advance
If you go to your Start option in Windows to launch a new instance of Storyline or from the APP it will open a new Storyline instance without closing the current one.
"Canary", Ron?! .... what is this mystical build. I thought my collection was complete with x32 and x64 private beta.... but now I know the legends of the canary build are true, I must have it!!
😂 😂 😂
I think Canary is latest build that exports more data for the devs. I have had a couple of times when I had issues
Hello Ron,
Thank your very much!
So basically, you always have to open Articulate Storyline with the Articulate 360 app, and keep this app open. A strange way of opening a program and/or creating a new project, but it works (creating a new project from within Articulate Storyline should work). Anyway, thanks!
You do not have to use the APP. You just need to create a new Storyline instance to have more than one open at a time. As Walt mentioned.
Jeroen,
So basically, you always have to open Articulate Storyline with the Articulate 360 app, and keep this app open.
No, not necessarily. You can open SL the way you open any app. I almost never use the method Ron showed you. The key is that to have two projects open at the same time, you have to run two SL two separate instances (start it twice, and have two copies of it running concurrently.)
By the way, if your reason for having two projects open concurrently is so that you can copy material from one to the other, you will sooner or later be sorry you did. Copying from one to the other will at some unpredictable point in the future cause corruption to something in the project. To be safe, import from one project to the other, and delete extraneous material if you need to.
The reason was that I wanted to export one slide from a storyline project. Storyline can export one slide, but when you do that, you get the exported files and not the story file. I only wanted the story file to share it here on the forum. The only way I know how this can be done, is coping the content of the slide to a new project and save that project.
When you click on New in Storyline it should create a new project, without closing the current one, as all programs do. The fact it doesn't means it is a (UX) bug.
you can right click app on the taskbar and open a new instance.
Ah, that even easier!
Sorry, I don't use Windows a lot. My main desktop is GNOME (on Fedora).
This is actually a Windows UX bug too: it only says 'Articulate Storyline 360 64-bit'. I assumed Windows meant the current open window. It should say 'New Window' or something like that (as in GNOME).
I am wrong cary version is the beta version that goes to a limited audience first Ron is one of the reasons we dont se big bugs
Jeroen,
Do not export from SL. If you attempt that, as you say, the only way is to publish it first, and you cannot edit a published version.
DO NOT copy one slide and paste into another project, that will likely introduce corruptions that will hide your true problem when you post it on the forum.
Open a new project in SL. Yes, it will close the first project (which is probably not a bug, but a safeguard against corruption, given the way SL saves a project). In the new project, IMPORT a slide from Storyline. Navigate to the project in question, choose the slide you want to import. You will have a .story file with the one slide you want, suitable for posting on the forum.
Now you know a second, safer, much better way to move material from one project to another.
Hello Walt,
Thanks you very much! I know understand what you mean! I tried it and it works!
Solved :-)!
