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JimOwen-f418d1f
Community Member
3 months ago

How to direct user via URL

I would like to create a project which either starts on a different slide or else populates a variable upon user entry, based on a URL.

The idea is to create multiple QR codes which send the user to the same course, but depending on the URL of the code, they get a slightly different experience. I don't want to create a separate course for each URL because the vast majority will be identical every time, and that will be a management headache as there may be up to a dozen of these.

Is there a way to do this using, for example, query parameters?

www.mystorylinecourse.com/story.html?myVar=1

www.mystorylinecourse.com/story.html?myVar=2

www.mystorylinecourse.com/story.html?myVar=3

etc?

storyline 360
  • JesseWu's avatar
    JesseWu
    Community Member
    3 months ago

    What prevents you from streaming users to different scenes by selecting roles on the introductory page? 

    Introduction Scene, Select the role here and direct to assigned scenes -> Parallel Scene for role A/B/C -> Shared Ending and Completion Track

    All in the same project file.

  • MathNotermans-9's avatar
    MathNotermans-9
    Community Member
    3 months ago

    You can create a dynamic URL for each course.
    Shown how to here.
    https://community.articulate.com/discussions/discuss/qr-code-and-shorturl-generation-in-storyline/1034621

    As for query parameters... yes you can use them. I actually did post about it but searching your own content in the new community is tough, so i do have trouble finding it.

    In my code library i found this snippet with which you can read query params.

    function getQueryVariable(variable)
{
       var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
       var vars = query.split("&");
       for (var i=0;i<vars.length;i++) {
               var pair = vars[i].split("=");
               if(pair[0] == variable){return pair[1];}
       }
       return(false);
}


/*
Example URL:
http://www.example.com/index.php?id=1&image=awesome.jpg

Calling getQueryVariable("id") – would return “1”.
Calling getQueryVariable("image") – would return “awesome.jpg”.
*/

     

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