Print ANYTHING in StoryLine

Hi Jeffery, I am trying this now and have problems printing from Edge. I would be grateful to know if you have any more details on the browser issues.

Best, Steve

Steve,

To be honest, I did not solve printing from Edge. I have told my clients to use either Firefox or Chrome and that has been working. It looks like from comments in the community the results of printing from Edge are mixed. Wish I had a better answer.

Jeffrey Riley

Thanks Jeffery, I just hate saying "you can print this slide but...." in a lesson.

Best, Steve

Hi Owen ... just looked at your tutorial on getting the print button to appear at the bottom of the screen... Great Job!!     Two questions:

1.  It appears that you would need to trigger the  "Hide" script...   $("#tab-customlink").hide(); ... on every screen except the one you want to print if you don't want the Player print option to appear on the other screens.     Is that correct?

2. I also can not make it work in IE .... any ideas on what settings to check?  Thank You!!

-Malcolm

Print is not working in IE 11.

I keep coming back to this again and again.  Such a useful tip.  Thanks Owen.

Hi Owen thanks for the great tip.  I tried your example package. When published in SL3 as HTML5 with Flash fallback (and vice versa), I can see it working as a Flash version, but not as HTML5 in IE.  No joy at all with Chrome as it does not work with HTML5 and the Flash version gives me a blank page.

To add to my challenges, "window.print()" works fine to run as Javascript, but stretches to fit, distorting the image.  Any suggestions would be hugely helpful - thanks.

I am publishing both from SL3 and 360 with HTML5 and the print function is still working for me.  I am primarily testing in chrome.

Hi Owen,

I've published your example to Articulate TempShare.  It would be really useful to know if this works for you - if you could possibly spare the time?

If it doesn't , it's my SL3 installation mucking up your example.
If it does work for you, it's probably something like my browser settings.

(These links will work until 22/06/2018)

HTML5 version

http://s3.amazonaws.com/tempshare-stage.storyline.articulate.com/sto_1cfpjaeq21de21sbb12jh9br11po9/story_html5.html

Flash version:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/tempshare-stage.storyline.articulate.com/sto_1cfpjaeq21de21sbb12jh9br11po9/story_flash.html

Cheers!

It is working for me in Chrome and Edge.

There are a couple of added bits of JS functionality in the file that work in HTML5 but not flash.  The 1st bit of code, finds the tab you added, moves it to the bottom of the player, and re-formats it to look like the other lower player buttons.  The next code, hides the button.  If you click the character, the button is revealed. If you click the text bubble, the button is hidden again.


Those extra bits aren't required, I was just teaching myself how to hack some of the html5 player elements.  Really, all anyone needs to do to add the print functionality to any of their projects is the following:
1) Click Story View
2) Select Player
3) Under the Player Tabs list, click the "New" button
4) Add any name you want and choose your alignment. I typically call it "Print Window".
5) Select the action "Execute JavaScript and paste the following line of code:
window.print();