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JosephReplin-f0's avatar
JosephReplin-f0
Community Member
9 years ago

Relative File/URL Links

Our organization is fairly large and getting everyone on the same PC file structure for projects would be fairly difficult. Once inside a project folder, our files are all the exact same so a relati...
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GaryWeinfurther's avatar
GaryWeinfurther
Community Member
9 months ago

The same problem occurs because Storyline stores the the absolute path of the published file.

Unfortunately, none of the above workarounds will help if we want to show the Resources tab and exclude the hidden external file from the Resources list.

Like all others above have said, when we get the .story file from our source code control after it has been checked in by someone else, we have to find all the broken links and re-import them. 

Storing absolute paths is the worst design decision ever.

PhilMayor's avatar
PhilMayor
Super Hero
9 months ago

This should now be fixed, Storyline has been storing resources inside the file for the last few versions

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    GaryWeinfurther
    Community Member
    9 months ago

    If I add a trigger action to open a file then browse to a file, the file is not stored in the .story file. An absolute path to the file is stored instead. When another author opens the .story file, Storyline can't find the file because the absolute path on another user's computer isn't valid.