Setting Defaults

Hi Maureen,

If you're starting a brand new project from scratch, you'll need to change those settings each time. If you have a particular player set up that you'd like to use across multiple Storyline files, you'll need to save that as a player template and apply it when starting a new project.  This will allow you to use the items such as the colors, player settings, etc. As for how each slide advances, you'll need to set that for each new project and you can do it on a slide by slide basis or when in Story view, select all the slides and change it within the slide properties for all of them.

The publishing path will appear within the publishing window, and will default to the My Articulate Projects folder. Each course will create it's own published output folder once you've gone through the publishing steps. 

Ashley, the "My Articulate Projects" folder is on our shared drive, and the courses always publish there unless I change the path. I am not supposed to use a shared drive for these projects - they need to live on, and be published on my hard drive - so I have to manually change the publishing path every time.

I want the software to go to my D:\ drive instead, and I would like to move the folder to D:\My Articulate Projects once and for all. However, there doesn't appear to be any way of doing that.

Do I need to de-install the software and reinstall it with new settings? Are there any other options?

Hi Maureen,

Yes, it sounds like you'll want to uninstall and reinstall Storyline and ensure it installs to your local hard drive (typically your C drive) .

Please let us know if you're still having difficulty after checking into that fix.

I think I should be able to set my preference for default publishing settings. I have to manually make the selections every time. It can't be that hard to add a preferences tab is it?

Hi Steve,

I appreciate you reaching out and sharing what you would like to see.

Once your project is published the first time, the settings will hold for any subsequent publishing of the same project.

If I understand you correctly, you would like to pre-define this option in Storyline for all of your project files. I've submitted this feature request on your behalf. I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests, which may be helpful.