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SonjaDAngelo
Community Member
13 years ago

URL Link to open in new window

Hi,

I have created a course, which explain how to log on to a memberside.

At the end I placed a 'web object', but this will be opend in the course window.

I would like a LInke at the end of the course which will open a new browser window.

How can I do that?

Thanks for your help

  • Yikes! This article is from 8 years ago! I'm stuck because storyline 360 does not have a Globe icon and I need to link my URL out to a new window so the course doesn't close when the learner is done with the web page! 

    • PaulaOBrien-cd6's avatar
      PaulaOBrien-cd6
      Community Member

      Enter the URL, click into the URL field, click the Gear icon that shows next to the Test URL icon, choose the option to open the link in a new window. 

    • TonaMitcham-a9b's avatar
      TonaMitcham-a9b
      Community Member

      Thank you so much for sharing the Peek video. It is exactly what I needed.

  • Hi Leslie, I have visited the article and watched your Peek but the button isn't in my version of 360. How do we create the link to open in a new window, please?

  • Hi, Andy.

    When you hover your mouse over the URL in the trigger wizard, those two icons don't appear for you? Or, when you say the button isn't in your version, do you mean you don't have an insert hyperlink icon? 

    You can also right-click your highlighted text and add a Hyperlink through the menu that shows up:

    Screen Recording 2021-11-30 at 12.10.14 PM

    Let me know if this helps!

  • Hi Maria

    In the Peek Video, when you hover on the URL you get a Browser Options icon on the right. I don't get that in my Storyline 360 so can't set the URL to open in a new window.

  • GM,

    Thanks for sharing information on this topic. Also, it's nice to see something current. Andy, I am seeing the functionality Maria and others are showing. A teammate asked me about an hour ago if this was a deliberate action, or if it was by a learner's browser setting. When I hover over the URL it give me those two icons. 

  • Hi, Andy.

    Thank you for clarifying!

    You won't see the icon when you first set up the trigger:

    Screen Recording 2021-12-01 at 09.47.54 AM

    You have to save it, then open it again to edit it:

    Screen Recording 2021-12-01 at 09.48.24 AM

    If your experience is different than above, let's try this:

    • Are you able to do a short Peek 360 recording showing what you see?
    • Can you attempt a quick repair of Storyline 360? Here are the steps

     

  • Ah, OK, think I have figured it out.

    In the original file story, the hyperlink was applied to the text box that the text was in. When I changed it so that the hyperlink was applied to the actual text, I got the icons as shown.

    Lesson learned there!

    Thanks for your help, Maria and Rodney.