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Storyline Suspend Data Compression
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As some of us know SCORM 1.2 only limits its suspend data for up to 4096 characters. Storyline (360) compresses its data (e.g. SL variables and such) in order to fit the limitations of t...
You can also hack the code to increase the limit further Dan Marsden should be able to point you in the right direction. However, I would look into this further and see how much data is being sent in your packages the override gives you 64K characters sounds to me like something is off.
FWIW, my company's largest course was producing about 60kb of suspend data by the time a learner reached the end - and we consciously were trying to keep the course simple (we broke out coverage for specific state's into separate versions of the course - which makes maintenance and upkeep a royal PITA, especially due to other issues Articulate doesn't seem to want to address). Andrea had mentioned "it is also true that our courses are big not only in terms of slides but also in terms of variables and interactions". And he mentioned multiple languages and I wasn't sure if he meant that each course had support for 4 different languages within it or whether they were different courses. Having multiple languages within the course would make them "huge". We've contemplated doing it that way and experimented with it for one customer. It is definitely ideal for the learner to be able to choose the language they want during the course, and most LMS systems have issues assigning a course based on language to particular learners (what language should a course assignment be - only the learner really knows that answer). So, it would not surprise me at all if he was exceeding 64kb.
Note: as I mentioned in my original reply on how to add compression, using zlib compression achieves around a 10:1 compression ratio on Articulate's suspend data. I can't imagine very many instances where the suspend data would exceed say 500kb. That probably would put the course into the gargantuan category (IMO)...
