LMS Course Name JavaScript Action

This may be more dependent on your LMS API, than Rise. Since there is a function called GetStudentName() that you are successfully using, what are the functions associated with the course or learning object? Student names are stored in SCORM as well, so those are pretty easy to retrieve no matter which API is in play. With the Cornerstone LMS there are a few (very few)  global variables we can employ in HTML.  One trick I use is to launch the course, open the Dev tools > Console and start typing Get..  With the API already loaded, and context typing, you can see the API classes available - maybe Course-something is there.

I'll try to help.  In your first post you declared a variable (not in your SL project though) simply called course (let's give it a little customization), However you produced the value you wanted in the console, that goes to the right of 'var externalCourseID ='

// the scope of externalCourseID is local only to this javascript snippet

var externalCourseID = classroomName(' **someUniqueParameter**');

// CourseName is a Project Variable
player.SetVar("CourseName", externalCourseID);

apologies for the constant back and fourth (im new to JS coding & coding in general)

i have tried the following but still not pulling through results

var externalCourseID = classroomName
player.SetVar("CourseName", externalCourseID);

im unsure where to go from here

Are you checking the console for errors? I am sure you must be getting some.

Course name is not defined in the scorm standard, so using the LMSAPI is unlikely to work.

In the code you posted last  you definitely have a syntax error and need to dd the line var player=GetPlayer();. Even then you need to know what you are connecting to to pull the variable.

var player=GetPlayer();
var externalCourseID = classroomName;
player.SetVar("CourseName", externalCourseID);

It looks as though I'd need to be a customer to access ESR documentation, but it sounds like since you are likely running this Rise course within the ESR environment, classroomName() is a function that 'lives' at the parent/global level, which is why it's working in your browser's console window. If that classname is itself an ESR global variable, is that what you plugged into classroomName( )  to get a result? Javascript in a Rise trigger should be able to access that same 'parent' function.  Maybe send a screen shot (redact stuff if necessary) of your console with classroomName returning what you wanted.

var player=GetPlayer();
var externalCourseID = classroomName();
player.SetVar("CourseName", externalCourseID);

should work what does it show in the console

Is this what you are referring to.... apologies for this Phil

Thanks for that, it provides some context, but I'm not sure now how to help. I can see why you thought to just use classroomName as an assignment to some internal Rise variable, but to Rise, that is just a random string of letters at that point. Rise needs to know the var is from outside its project.  With Storyline, they have a script that employs the versions of SCORM API, so I use that to retrieve user inputs on relaunch (see attached) and even 'force' completion if needed.

SCORM2004_CallSetValue('cmi.completion_status', 'completed')

var player = GetPlayer();

var newTxt0 = player.GetVar('TextEntry1');
SCORM2004_CallSetValue('cmi.interactions.0.learner_response', newTxt0);

SCORM2004_CallSetValue('cmi.interactions.0.id', 'SurveyQ1');

console.log("INt0 = " + SCORM2004_CallGetValue('cmi.interactions.0.learner_response'));

I think you need to hunt for the function in a parent ESR script that looks like ...getValue('classroomName' ) - and add that to the Rise trigger

I am out of the office for the next three days so cannot look at some old courses. Are you pulling the name and date into the certificate already in the storyline block if you are the code should be working did you run the last one I posted with opening and closing parentheses? 

yes by the way i am already pulling the name and date in with JS coding .... i have attached pictures of both of these codes which are working just as they should (at the moment)