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Swapping all characters at once?
Is there a way to select all of the same character in a story and swap them all at the same time to a new character? I need to change out the old illustrated character to a modern character (in Storyline 360), and I'm doing it slide by slide. It seems there should be a way to do them all at once...
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Hi there Susan!
Unfortunately, if you've already placed characters on multiple slides, you'll need to modify each of those characters. I can certainly see how a feature that would allow you to change all the characters at once would make your life easier! Can you please share your perspective with our product development team? Thanks for being a part of the community!
Thanks Alyssa!
Hello Alyssa
I have the same issue as Susan. I need to replace a character across entire e-Learning which has about 30-40 slides. Changing it slide by slide will take forever. Also what if client changes mind?
Sure there should be smarter way to do it. like a smart object in Adobe. I am interested to know more. let me know
Hi All,
I agree, there is no feature in Storyline 360 to replace characters at once.
Here's what I do.
I tried to replace multiple images at once by replacing images files after published.
In the picture shown below, I copy the filename of the generated image and delete the file, then rename Picture4.png with the generated filename on the left.Hi Articulate team
This was 10 months ago
Have you come up with a simple solution to swap out characters instantly yet
This is a necessary feature of ALL presentations ie using one presentation as a template and building new ones
Hop to it
Aah sean
Hi Sean,
You can swap the assets, including characters, in your course using Storyline 360.
Here is our documentation on using the media library to do so.
Thanks Leslie
This is taken directly from the details you provided.
For photographic characters, you can replace individual poses, but you can’t replace an entire character group and all of its poses simultaneously.
This is what people want that your software doesn’t provide. Your users are quite aware of how to use google to find a solution if one exists, so this return email of yours Leslie seems a little insulting in that it didn’t answer the discussion thread at all
The process is slow and cumbersome:
* Click on character
* Choose replace, list of all characters comes up
* Scroll through all characters OR use filters
* Find character
* Find pose
* Double click
* Done! Yay
* Click on character (same one that needs to be replaced but from next slide)
* Choose replace, list of all characters comes up
* Scroll through all characters OR use filters
* Find character
* Find pose
* Double click
* Done! Yay
* 2 slides down
* 48 to go 😊Nope not efficient
This desperately needs fixingTah Sean
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w: Queensland Health | e: sean.booth@health.qld.gov.auAlthough not as simple as replace character the media library solution is quicker than working through each slide.
Enhancements to the media library are always being added, I am sure this thread will be added to any feature requests that have been made for this enhancement.
Any chance this has happened yet? It seems like a basic need for a lot of people....please and thank you!
I agree, this would be a great feature! Does anybody know if this exists yet?
Storyline 360 doesn't offer the option to swap one character on multiple slides for another character. We still have this logged with our team but have prioritized other features for upcoming releases. If our team decides to reroute, we'll be sure to update this discussion.
Hi there - Hopeful for an update??
I am about to swap out characters in a project that is over 50 slides long...
Fingers Crossed
~F.
Hello Faith!
I don't have an update to share at this time. We are prioritizing other feature requests for our upcoming releases. You can view what we are working on here: feature roadmap
For now, I'll share your comments with my team so we can keep this feature request updated.
