How to edit content?

I am still having issues with it. I have tried all the things you suggested. The video is made for a JMU university. What I want to do, and have been doing, is changing the text to say "Ferris State" or "Ferris" in the spots that is says JMU. I would like to send it to you so you can see what is going wrong. When I preview the presentation in just the single slide or a scene, it works fine. but as a project whole, it reverts back to the JMU settings. 

How do I send it to you? 

Hi Jason,

Reading back over the information you shared, it sounds like you may be viewing locally or it may be a caching issue. When you click on the "View Presentation" button, this can cause some caching issues - especially if you've viewed the project multiple times.

If you're viewing your published files locally, this may be the problem. If you view a published Storyline presentation on your local hard drive or send it to someone else to view on their local hard drive, you'll encounter security restrictions from the computer, web browser, Flash Player, and network that'll cause various features of your content to fail.

To properly test your published content and share it with others, upload it to the environment for which it was published. Please review the article below for more information:

Publishing and Sharing Articulate Storyline Content

If you do not have access to a web server or LMS for testing, you could try using SCORM Cloud.

Another option would be to use our Tempshare server. Just keep in mind that this server is only available for testing content - it is not officially supported by Articulate and all content will be removed automatically after 10 days.

In addition, you could also use Dropbox. Just remember that you'll need to place your content in the "Public" folder. Also, you'll need to make sure that the folder is enabled. To do so, click on this link.

You're always welcome to try out Articulate Online, as well - it's available for a free 30 day trial.

If you're uploading to a web server or LMS, please try clearing your browser cache. If that doesn't help, try viewing the project in a different web browser. 

If you still have trouble and you'd like me to take a look, you're welcome to upload the .STORY file and attach it to this thread. If the file is too large, however, it may not post to the forums. In that case, you could upload the project file to Dropbox and share the link with me. 

If you need to keep the project file private, you're welcome to use this method to submit the files directly to me, or you can send it to our support engineers. 

Thanks, Jason!

Okay, so I published it and viewed it in Google Chrome and it still wasn't working right. I also couldn't figure out how to do any of the other options you suggested so I'm just gonna share the file with you. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pk1vjes0o5imcx0/Is%20It%20Real%20-%20Ferris%20State.story

 remember, the problem is that when I view the project as a whole, some text gets reverted back to "JMU" instead of saying "Ferris State" or just "Ferris". 

Let me know if you understand my problem. And if you can successfully get it.

Thanks 

Hi Jason,

Thanks for sharing your file here. I downloaded it and took a look, and to be honest at first I was stumped cause I saw the word "Ferris" written on slide 3.4, but when I was previewing the entire course on the "same" slide it appeared with JMU. When I took a deeper look, I saw that when previewing the full course, instead of seeing 3.4 I was actually seeing the screen recording on 10.2 with the original text. There isn't a way to change the screen recording text without doing a new screen recording. Once I was able to navigate to the slide 3.4 in preview, I saw "Ferris" as expected.

If you need any other help, please let us know! 

So what steps exactly do I need to take to correct this?

Jason 

Hi Jason,

That'll depend on if you need to keep the screen recording on slide 10.2. If you need the recording, but for the text to read "Ferris" instead of "JMU" you'll need to re-record with that correction as there is no way to edit the content within the screen recording. If you don't need to have the screen recording, and that's why you were updating slide 3.4, you will want to delete slide 10.2 (and other accompanying slides if needed) and then reset your triggers to point to the particular slide (3.4) or to that particular scene. 

I'm not certain what you're looking for or how you'd like to navigate it, so that element will be up to you to decide. 

I just want the whole project to work with "Ferris" in place of the "JMU" spots. And there are more slides than just 3.4 that get changed. almost every slide gets changed from "JMU" to "Ferris". 

So if I want the whole project to work with "Ferris" do I need to delete 10.2? will that still work? or do I need to re-record 10.2? (im also not sure what that even means). 

Jason 

Hi Jason,

Any screen recordings you've included such as slide 10.2 will need to be updated. You'll need to create a new recording (re-record) and insert it in it's place. The same will be true of images or other elements where the text was not created in Storyline I saw a number of other slides with "Ferris" on them, and those worked as expected. If you'd like to point me to a particular slide, I'm happy to check again, but all looked normal on my end.

okay, so how do I create screen recordings? 

Jason 

Hi Jason,

There is a great set of tutorials here on how to start and edit screen recordings. I would begin with that information and if you need additional guidance after that please let me know.