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Storyline 360 to SharePoint
I recently made the switch to Storyline 360. I previously had Storyline 2 and was able to publish for the web, create the .aspx file, and upload to SharePoint through Explorer.
In Storyline 360 I ...
Hi Lisa,
Well, looks like you're doing everything correctly and you still get the Save As... prompt. What that tells me is that the SharePoint server is set to not allow uploaded .ASPX files to run and prompts the save as.
This may require you to contact the admin of the SharePoint environment (or the document library you're using) to enable running of ASPX files. You could also request that HTML files be enabled as well. If you can get that administrative change on the server side, you wouldn't need to do any of the copying and renaming. However... I've found getting those kinds of changes done at the infrastructure level is a tall order and affects security policies that most orgs have in place. So... this is the reason for the copy/rename workaround.
Since you're working in SharePoint, you probably have Office 365, which includes OneDrive. OneDrive is often more "open" to external content and may be set to allow ASPX and even HTML, sometimes. Again, this is controlled by organizational security, etc.
I'd recommend seeing if you can upload your content to OneDrive and test the running of ASPX (and HTML, while you're at it!).
Every environment is a little different (duh, John!) and it often takes some cajoling to get IT or SharePoint admins to adjust things for SL content to run. Having worked in IT and also on the Learning & Development side of things, you may be able to get this adjustment to security made without too much trouble. On the other hand, network and data security seems to get more locked down as time goes by, rather that getting looser.
My experience is that spending time on the workaround may be more fruitful that spending time trying to adjust an org's security policies.
Let me know if the OneDrive approach is possible and if it worked for you!
I'm also curious if Articulate is looking at SharePoint integration with Storyline. With such a ubiquitous corporate intranet/extranet platform like SharePoint, it seems like a natural place to distribution web-based training outside the LMS environment.
Thanks!
John
Thanks John. I have a question out to our IT team to see if I can find some answers about the security settings. In the meantime, I copied my e-Learning files to OneDrive and here are the results:
.aspx - still unable to launch (I am prompted with "Windows can't open this file"
.html - launches fine but I am prompted with a security message "Internet Explorer restricted this webpage from running script or ActiveX controls". I click "Allow Blocked Content" and am able to go through the content of the course.
Hopefully I'll hear back from IT soon and then can proceed. On another note, have you used any LRS options with SL360 and SharePoint? Looking for a recommendation of tools to investigate. Thanks again.
Lisa
