lmsAPI Functionality in HTML5 Output

Not a problem! I'm glad this has helped so many people!

I figured once I had a solution figured out, I should share with the community and also reach out to the Articulate team in hopes that they could fix the problem in future releases.

Thank you so much Matt! 

Thanks Matthew. for this help

Thanks Adam! you saved my day.

Happy to hear that Steve and thanks for the update! 

Hi Matt, hope you're well! 

I've been trying to use this when publishing html5 only via scorm2004. 

I keep getting a message about blnstatuswasset = false. 

Do I need to do anything different to this as I'm using scorm2004? Xxx 

Hi Shane,

Thank you for the kind words!  My guess is that you might be using a "Passed/Failed" instead of a "Completed/Failed". 

I would recommend trying to call the following instead:

lmsAPI.SetPassed();

If you are looking for the different options you should be able to use with lmsAPI, here is the switch statement in the lms.js code, which I used as the basis of the code I wrote:

switch (strStatus){
   case "complete":
   case "completed":
      lmsAPI.SetReachedEnd();
      break;
   case "incomplete":
      lmsAPI.ResetStatus();
      break;
   case "not attempted":
      break;
   case "failed":
      lmsAPI.SetFailed();
      break;
   case "passed":
      lmsAPI.SetPassed();
      break;
}

Good luck!

I've been following several threads on this topic after trying to get a student's first name to appear in a Storyline 360 course with Cornerstone LMS. I'm publishing in HTML Only using SCORM 2004.

The code I've culled from various threads that almost works is:

var player = GetPlayer();

function findLMSAPI(win) {
// look in this window
if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;

// all done if no parent
else if (win.parent == win) return null;

// climb up to parent window & look there
else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}

var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
var myName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();
var array = myName.split(',');
var newName = array[1] + ' ' + array[0];
player.SetVar("newName", newName);

When I insert the variable onto a page, "undefined" is right before the user's name (first and last).

I've tried code almost identical to the above to get just the first name, but it yields nothing in the variable.

var player = GetPlayer();

function findLMSAPI(win) {
// look in this window
if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;

// all done if no parent
else if (win.parent == win) return null;

// climb up to parent window & look there
else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}

var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
var name = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();
var nameArray = name.split(", ");
var firstName = nameArray[1];
var lastName = nameArray[0];
var player = GetPlayer();
player.SetVar('first_name',firstName);
player.SetVar('last_name',lastName);

Anyone have any ideas why this woulnd't be working?

Hi Chris,

I wrote this original code to work with SCORM 1.2, not SCORM 2004.

I don't claim to know every difference between the two, but this might help.  My guess is that the Student Name is part of an multi-part object that is getting pulled in.

Have you considered using split/join to remove the "undefined"?  For example:

var firstName = nameArray[1].split('undefined').join('');

var lastName = nameArray[0].split('undefined').join('');

I just wanted to say thank you to Chris and Adam, This has helped me big time!