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 can not get the same results with that process. Instead, upon clicking the .aspx file on SharePoint, I receive a prompt to save the .html file. If I click save, a blank window opens. I have tried this in both Chrome and Internet Explorer 11. Is there something I have to do differently when using 360?

Hi friends, I feel that it would be supremely helpful to the entire Storyline community if Articulate provided support for SharePoint, OneDrive, and now Teams. They are viable and extremely ubiquitous intranet and extranet collaboration platforms and seem like a perfect way to deliver learning and performance support content. I've tried the numerous hacks that are documented in this discussion thread and some work, but do so inconsistently. Is there nothing that the folks in development can do to help out the user community on this topic? Do we really need to hack all these various systems or the content we've developed to get this to work? In many cases, we're working with a consulting client and have little or no influence in the client's intranet platform. But, Office 365 and it's family of products are so widely used, that it seems a disservice to the community and our clients or employers to produce content that can't be shared on that platform. Yes, learning management systems are the most appropriate platform to provide content to learners, when tracking progress and completion of training modules or courses is important. However, there are many use cases where SharePoint is a more appropriate platform because it's integrated with a team collaboration site and is a performance support tool or just information distribution. Question for Articulate staff: is there anything being done on this? Or should everyone on this thread just give up and stop trying to make this work? I know I've spent countless hours trying to get this to work. I'm not trying to be sarcastic, honestly. If the answer is 'no', then the answer is 'no'.

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

Hi SharePoint Explorers! Well, it seems like something has changed recently in SharePoint that is preventing anything I publish from running. I've tried the HTML > ASPX renaming approach I've discussed here previously, but that no longer works. I am at my wit's end on this. The only thing I've been able to do is load a published project folder onto OneDrive and then link to that from SharePoint. At this point, OneDrive (or on a web server other than SharePoint) seems to be the best approach. It seems like there are a growing number of users who want to publish to SharePoint from SL and SL360. If enough of us add this integration to a feature request, it could happen. Thanks to Articulate Support for listening to this awesome community!!! I'm sharing a mock-up of the SL 360 Publish dialog with a SharePoint option to inspire everyone! ;-) https://articulate.com/support/contact/feature-request

Hi Leslie, I learned that this process still works if I use the story_html5.html file to create the .aspx file. In the past, I always used the story.html file. Thank you!

Also having issues with running Storyline 360 content on SharePoint. A while back I tried renaming story.html to story.aspx. The file runs on SharePoint, but because the code in story.html checks browser type and availability of Flash, it eventually redirects to story_flash.html or story_html5.html. At that point, SharePoint wants to download one of those HTML files. I renamed those two files to have an ASPX extension, and then opened story.html in Notepad and easily found the references to story_flash.html and story_html5.html, changing those to look for the renamed ASPX files... And it works! Not too much work to get things running on SharePoint. However... I then ran into issues with imported content from Engage. Like Storyline, Engage publishes a handful of HTML files, which SharePoint insists on downloading. So, I found all those files (a bunch, because I love the rapid development I can do with Engage interactions!!!) and renamed them to have an ASPX extension. And, without getting into the gritty details, I had to use Notepad to go into the code and changes references to the HTML files over to ASPX. No luck this time. It appears that published Engage interactions seem to use JavaScript, CSS, and XML to generate the URL used in the slide frame in Storyline for the interaction. (okay, I got gritty there for a second) The bottom line is, the Storyline content runs just fine (with either Falsh or HTML5) but the interactions result in a 404 page not found error. I haven't tried, but I suspect the same might be the case for content developed in QuizMaker and imported into Storyline. Yes, I could recreate my interactions in Storyline, but I like Engage. I asked the SharePoint admin to see if they could just make an adjustment on the server to allow the running of HTML files, rather than forcing a download (Save/Save As) but IT security won't allow that to happen. Anyone experiencing this issue? Any clues? Seems like this could be a feature request to allow choosing HTML or ASPX as the output "wrapper" format... or even a SharePoint tab on the Publish page options. ;-) Thanks, John

Storyline 360 to SharePoint | Articulate

LizPisarczyk
Community Member
5 years ago
Hello Everyone,

I found this thread super helpful, however, since this conversation is from 2 years ago, I am wondering if these fixes no longer work. I am trying to upload a Storyline 360 story to Sharepoint by following all the instructions here. Unfortunately, my aspx file is prompted to download every time. Articulate is no longer recommending that users download the Classic story view - meaning the new Modern view does not include the Flash html paths that have been mentioned.

Does anyone have an update to this conversation with the newer options in Storyline?

Thank you in advance!
AldinaGoncal236
Community Member
5 years ago
Thanks Lauren,

That link takes me to a conversation with around 9 years now.. not sure if it's helpful, thanks for answering. Other links to mention that this item would/could be included on the roadmap so hoping that was any developments on that.

Thanks

Aldina
stantonmacke029
Community Member
5 years ago
Is there an official Articulate response to this Sharepoint ask? (If there was one already, in this thread, I didn't see it. - Can somebody please link me?)

E.g.

Yes/No on roadmap?

If yes, where are we on development lifecycle?

Recommended workaround/solution

Thanks
- JohnLuttrell-43
  Community Member
  5 years ago
  Stanton,
  
  As far as I know, there has not been an official Articulate response to this community request. I believe I submitted a feature request when this thread started, but will submit another one so as to bring some attention to this much-requested functionality.
  
  If an Articulate staff member is reading this, maybe you could shad some light on this???
  
  Thanks,
  
  John
  - BENOITGUILLO
    Community Member
    5 years ago
    And to complete what John pointed out, I think that there is a question of resource allocation that prevents the development of SL360. All the forces are thrown into the realization of an integrated elearning platform with Rise, able to compete with Moodle, Cornerstone and Co, and to seduce big firms. If you were looking to promote a complete platform, would you at the same time be looking to develop an independent tool capable of plug into any platform or ecosystem like Microsoft or Google? I do not think so.
    
    Too bad, SL360 is really a powerful tool with so many killing potential improvments.
JamesWallace-f7
Community Member
4 years ago
We had the same problem (obviously) with a Studio 360 course that was deployed on SharePoint Online. I renamed "presentation_htlm5.html" to "presentation_html5.aspx", launched the course with that, and it worked fine. Unlike John's experience above, all of the Engage interactions in the Studio course worked fine, without having to re-publish them separately.
TomFrederick
Community Member
4 years ago
I creating content with Storyline 360 and just want to share it on the web. DropBox, OneDrive, and SharePoint do not seem to work. I just spent two hours painstakingly reading over comments starting three years ago. Can anyone give an update on where this functionality stands and where I can find an SOP doc on publishing to the web from Storyline 360?
MariaCS
Staff
4 years ago
Hi, Tom, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ✨

When you publish your project for the web, you need to upload it to a web server. Take a look here for some options and tutorials.

Let me know if you have additional questions.
TonyGonzalez-c0
Community Member
3 years ago
I have tried these steps and other steps and continue to have issues. When I copied the story.html and renamed as launch.aspx, and use the URL within SharePoint to launch the launch.aspx file, the page launches but I just see the code (it doesn't play the course) - see attached. Any suggestions?
JohnLuttrell-43
Community Member
3 years ago
Hi Tony,

What I've found is that the renaming approach no longer works consistently in SharePoint. You might try the same approach, but put the published folder into OneDrive and try opening the launch.aspx file. In SharePoint, you'll see exactly what is in your screen shot. It will either open the file and show the code or it will force a download.

The issue is the .json files that Storyline includes in published projects. It's the same issue with Captivate. Both use .json files as part of the published files. Articulate has not published anything about the issue (as far as I know), but Adobe has:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/captivate-discussions/loading-captivate-html5-content-into-sharepoint/td-p/8848543

https://elearning.adobe.com/2018/11/adobe-captivate-2019-vs-sharepoint-issue-real/

Try the OneDrive approach. If that doesn't work, check with the SharePoint admin to see if .json file types can be enabled on the server. Please let us know how things go!
- TonyGonzalez-c0
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Thank you for your quick response, John! When I click on the launch.aspx from my OneDrive folder, the same thing happens where the file opens in Chrome, but it shows the HTML and doesn't launch the course/tool. When I click the story.html file in OneDrive it works perfectly. I have asked my IT Admin to ensure .json file types are enabled on the server (fingers crossed that this may resolve the issue) - Tony
JohnLuttrell-43
Community Member
3 years ago
Great! Thanks for letting us know that the html file worked in OneDrive. I'm curious if IT is able to change the .json setting and if it works. I'll stay tuned! :-)
- TonyGonzalez-c0
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  We finally got the .json settings adjusted and it’s still not working for us ☹.
JamesWallace-f7
Community Member
3 years ago
We had a lot of trouble getting courses to work in SharePoint 365 after we upgraded from SharePoint 2013. Here's what worked:

As a site master administrator, sign in to the SharePoint admin center.

Navigate to the Settings tab in the left-hand menu.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "classic settings page".

Scroll down to the Custom Script section.

Make sure these two options are active:

"Allow users to run custom scripts on personal sites"

"Allow users to run custom scripts on self-service created sites".

The Settings page says it may take up to 24 hours for the settings change to take effect, but I've talked to others who said under certain circumstances it may actually take up to 48 hours.

After waiting, it still appeared not to work, but I discovered that only aspx files that I uploaded after the settings change would work. Ones that were already in SharePoint before the settings change would not. But if I downloaded the older aspx files, deleted the ones on SharePoint, and uploaded them again, they worked.

Also, there may be places where one of Articulate's html files launches another html file. This is especially true with Presenter. You need to edit the html renamed to aspx files and change any statements that launch other html files to aspx.
- TonyGonzalez-c0
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Thank you for the insights, I'll pass this on to our SharePoint admin!
  
  Tony