Launching external files

Hi Mark - this is possible.  Add a button, text box or shape to your main screen. And the add a trigger to the button, text box or shape that says:

Action: Jump to URL/File

File: click the ... and select the PDF you want to use.

When: user clicks

Object: select the name of the button or text box you have added to the main screen.

When you publish your project, Storyline adds the PDF to the external_files folder in the published story_content folder.

Note that the link will not work if you are previewing the project and sometimes the link is blocked ( because of browser security) when you are running the project from your desktop.

The best way to test whether or not the link is working is to upload to a webserver or to your LMS.

Thanks, Nancy.  It must be the webserver/LMS element.  I've done everything else.  I'll try that.

Mark, there is one other thing that I should mention. I find that sometimes when using text boxes the links don't always work. I typically place a transparent shape over the text and add the trigger to the shape instead of directly to the text.

Some times, if you upload to Sharepoint the name of the folder is forcefully changed from external_files to external_files_

Which Storyline dosen't detect...

I hope there is a way to change the name of the output folder or links to that folder

 or to change Sharepoint rules... :(

Hi kenneth,

I recently experienced this problem when i tried uploading my published SL course to sharepoint 2013. Have you found and answer or workaround to this issue.  Basically, the hyperlinks to external files dont work since these are found inside the external_files folder.

This is a show stopper for my project. Any help or suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Caesar

I want to do the same thing Mark described at the top of this thread. I have a very large image that I want to display but it is too large to be included in the Storyline file. So, I placed a smaller version in a slide and linked it to the larger image.

I did all the steps Nancy listed. But it does not work. The strange thing is I have done this before but cannot get it to work now. I wonder what I'm doing wrong. No matter what I try, the External Files folder where the image should be, is not created.

png

Just to test the process, my system, etc., I added a link to an external URL using the same steps: new trigger, URL, when user clicks, picture. And it work just fine. I must be doing something that prevents Storyline from using the .png image