Enabling Custom Scripts in SharePoint Online Custom scripts are now disabled in SharePoint Online for security reasons by default. As a result, Articulate content with the story.html file renamed to story.aspx in the published output that previously worked with SharePoint Online might not work anymore. If you don't need to track learners' progress or results, check out these free or low-cost options for web hosting. If you need to use SharePoint Online, your SharePoint admin may be able to resolve this issue by following the steps below. (Note that we don't provide support for either workaround.) As of July 10, 2024, SharePoint users will find that they are required to reenable the Custom Scripts feature every 24 hours, reverting the Custom Scripts setting to its default and disabled state. Please see Microsoft’s article on Custom Script settings for more information. Enabling Custom Script via the SharePoint Admin Center If you don't need instant access, follow these steps. Go to the SharePoint admin center and sign in with your credentials. In the sidebar to the left of the page, click Settings. (If you're using the Modern admin center, click the classic settings page hyperlink at the bottom of the Settings page.) Scroll to the Custom Script section, then select the options to Allow users to run custom script on personal sites and Allow users to run custom script on self-service created sites. Click OK to save your changes. Note that this change may take up to 24 hours to appear. Enabling Custom Script in SharePoint Online via PowerShell For instant access, follow these steps. Open Windows PowerShell with admin privileges, then run Install-Module -Name PnP.PowerShellRun this command: Connect-PnPOnline -Url <url> -PnPManagementShell (replace <url> with your SharePoint URL, which will then generate a code for you to insert in your SharePoint admin center.) Run these commands in PowerShell: (replace the URL after -Url in the first command with the link to your static site collection, such as https://companyabc.sharepoint.com/sites/StaticSite). (If you need help creating a SharePoint site, refer to this article from Microsoft.) Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://yourorg.sharepoint.com/sites/StaticSite $site = Get-PnPSite Set-PnPSite -Identity $site.URL -NoScriptSite $false Your SharePoint site is almost ready to host HTML files! We just need to prepare the Articulate published output for upload. Here's how. In SharePoint, choose where you will locate this project. You can create a new folder or use the Documents location created by default with all SharePoint sites. Rename all the files with a .html extension in your unzipped published output folder to .aspx (keep the same file name). To do this, right-click the file, choose Rename, and then replace .html with .aspx. (Most projects only need to rename the analytics-frame.html and story.html files. Finally, upload the published output to your SharePoint site, then click story.aspx to launch your Articulate course. This change should take effect immediately.

Here's most of what you need to know to publish Storyline to SharePoint. Publishing Storyline for SharePoint Authoring Tools: Storyline 3, Storyline 360, likely Rise SharePoint: SharePoint.com “Modern and On-Premise “Classic” with ability to 1) create a library, and 2) upload files Operating System: Windows 10/11, with ability to edit file extensions High Level Steps Publish to Web Change .HTML file extensions to .ASPX Upload to a SharePoint Document Library Use the Story.ASPX file as the target file Before You Begin Verify the files will be at the top of a SharePoint library and not a folder in a library Ensure Storyline is up to date and save before publishing Ensure “clean” publishing and do not overwrite existing folders Must change the file extensions before uploading to SharePoint Actions for Storyline Author Publish to Web (save project first, publish clean) Change any .HTML file extensions to .ASPX from File Explorer window: If file extensions are visible, slow double click and change the HTML to ASPX. Alternatively, right click and select Properties and change in Properties window Say yes to message, “If you change a file name extension, the file might become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it?” Storyline web publish only has two HTML files: Story.HTML, analytics-frame.HTML If attempting to use Rise or publishing for xAPI, search for all .HTML files Deliver output folder to whomever can upload to SharePoint if you are unable to upload yourself. Actions for SharePoint Communications Owner/Designer/Member This will not work for a Teams site, only a communications site. Create a document library just for the output Must have it’s own library Best practice: no spaces in library name (Pascal_Snake_Case for example) Place the contents of the output folder into the new SharePoint Library Upload as a group to avoid breaking connections Do not load the folder itself into the library Use Story.ASPX as the target file Target file may vary for other products like Rise xAPI target file may be Story.HTML or Index_lms.HTML Important Considerations How organizations manage computers images, permissions, cloud backup/storage, and SharePoint can vary far beyond what can be covered here. Contact your support teams for assistance if you have any issues at any point. This works for a SharePoint Communications site, what most people think of as SharePoint, and not a Teams site. When testing on a Teams site, even opening up "in SharePoint" and getting to the Site Content level, creating a new library to put it in, it still won't work. It will only download the Story file, and not launch. My SharePoint Admin team, that manages our tenants and works with Microsoft directly, reached out to me to research this. We're not sure precisely why, even when we create a library, not a folder. For this to work, the Storyline output must be on a communications site, and output files must be uploaded into a Library, not in a folder. We just got a new version and update for Teams in our organization (March 2024) and I attempted again to get web published Storyline output to work, and it still fails. SharePoint.com generally sets up three SharePoint groups with new sites: Owners, Members, Visitors. Owners can create libraries (lists, etc.). Members can usually add, edit, delete items in the libraries, etc. Visitors can read. Everything SharePoint is highly configurable from the tenant level down to the hubs and sites, so exactly how this works in your organization may vary. But generally an Owner will create the library, and they or Members will add the files. If a file downloads instead of running the WBT, then you are likely launching from a folder or a team site. If you are still using Classic SharePoint, there may be other factors that are causing issues. Because SharePoint is so highly configurable, there are may places where things can create headaches. Publish to web only; the output has less files and doesn't include the required files to send data elsewhere. This can impact whether or not it will work on your particular SharePoint tenant. Publishing for an LMS includes more files and ones that send data. If you opt to use an LMS publishing option, note there will be more HTML files that will need to have their extensions changed. Files cannot to be ZIP'd up on SharePoint for this to work. Storyline 360 has an option to publish to video which means a single file and may be a suitable option. Windows File Explorer settings and what's available to you varies, depending on Windows version, edition, and your organization's settings/policies, etc. The variations are beyond scope of these steps, so you may need to consult with your IT support. Changing file extensions should only be done when you know exactly what you're doing and why. So don't do this for fun for other circumstances. These are specific steps for specific circumstances and are known to work for using Storyline on SharePoint when published to web. Changing file extensions changes the default program to open it. The file extensions must be changed prior to uploading to SharePoint. Cloud backups and other settings may cause issues when trying to change; again, contact your support team for assistance. General Best Practices and Steps to Save You Headaches Always ensure latest version. Storyline 3.20 still works as of the date of this comment. If using S360 or any authoring tool, always use the latest version to ensure it works with current browser technology. What files get published, how they are structured, and where they go can change over time. Always Publish Clean. I can't stress this enough; overwriting an output folder only updates the files that it's set to publish. Any other files remain, and they may include obsolete tech or cause issues with your output in general. Restart your system if not daily, every other day. In the age of cloud storage, federation, and other single sign-on options, this can impact what you do as a Storyline user and as a SharePoint Admin. Reset your browser. Both Edge and Chrome are Chromium based so they are similar. This is the new "clear cache" and "allow popups" for those of us who've been around longer than Storyline. It can resolve a wide range of seemingly random issues. Ensure Browser(s) are current version. Just like Storyline, outdated browsers can impact the things associated with it. All of these can not only help avoid issues, it helps with troubleshooting and isolating root causes of issues. For example, I spent a year trying to identify causes of issues with migrating an LMS from IE11 to Edge and the root cause was Storyline build versions were not verified, and the output folders had a lot of obsolete files that were blocked. It took going into hundreds of Storyline modules on our LMS to look at all the output to discover this after working with multiple teams including Articulate (thanks, Taylor, I still remember all your help). About Me Currently an LMS Admin and SharePoint Site Collection Owner. I've worked with Articulate Products since Articulate was a premium add-in for PowerPoint. My background includes system administration, technical support, technical documentation, Instructional design and Instructional development. I'm often a person pulled in when folks are experiencing the sticky issues. The SharePoint Administrators in my organization use me as a Subject Matter Expert for publishing this kind of content to SharePoint.

So my little input, as I also have 'download' problem. First of all, you can discard entirely analytics-frame.html. If you rename it to .aspx nothing will happen, as sources INSIDE story.html refers to analytics-frame.html. If you change extension of the physical file, it won't magically replace the inside story.html reference to the new one. It will produce the same error in the console - file not found. And analytics-frame is not a necessary file to run the course. And to the topic - I created library and uploaded files right into it. You can see it has library icon, and I have two documents libraries, which I one just created. And yet when I click story.aspx it tries to download. And it probably will, always, unless you have some option(*) somewhere checked that @Jennifer Brown didn't include in the instruction - not her fault, as we are just learning guys, not neccessarly sharepoints superadmins ;)I did however nailed things down a little.1. You need admin privileges or be able to contact your sharepoint admin (and convince them to enabling option opening vulnerabilites in the sharepoint ;)). 2. You need to enable Custom Script, either on the admin level (permanent solution for all sites) or site level (temporary, 24h solution for just one site/site collection). You can read here. 3. Then you should view your site (communication or teams channel, doesn't matter at all) contents and navigate to the Styles Library. Inside, you can create new folder, for example TestCourse, and upload all Storyline published files (with of course ALREADT CHANGED story.html to story.aspx, because amount of people not getting that you need to do that beforehand is astonishing) into it. If you don't enable custom script, you won't be able to upload files here at all, that's why. 4. Now when you click the story.aspx you should indeed open a fully functional storyline course. You can embed it into any other site (at least within your space). I've managed to do that on my 'test' sharepoint and now I will try to test it organization-wide ;) If someone might have an idea about (*), I mean why it is working from document library perspective for some, and for others not, I'd happy to hear. As enabling custom script and trying to run the course from another location than Styles Library produced "download" window instead of showing course, and trying to access direct link or embedding it, produced "File not found" notification.

HeySo this is what my business IT infrastructure Engineer said to me...Microsoft themselves have disabled the custom script feature on a SharePoint as a standard feature. ( he confirmed this with Microsoft). It can however be enabled for a specific site (your IT admin can do this if not you) but it will auto turn off after 24 hours.Due to how long it take for my business to push through updates i get about 48 hours sometimes 72 before it resets. Uploading the files itself they need to be converted to the ASPX file I also find that in the Story content folder and the Mobile folder once you have uploaded them to SharePoint you need to create the blank folders "notes" and "slides" in each as SharePoint wont upload these empty folders Hope it helps

After weeks of trying to get Sharepoint to link to/display courses from a link to files uploaded into SP, a colleague of mine suggested a brilliantly simple solution. In Articulate, open your course. Click on 'Share' and copy preview url. Paste url into Sharepoint webpart where you want the course to open - Voila. It allows me to update as needed and the link always refreshes with newest version. I can add a password if needed.

Simply publishing to Web, and changing Story.HTML to Story.ASPX worked for me on SharePoint.com. No custom scripts needed.

TylerBraddick

Staff

4 years ago

Viewing Articulate 360 Content in SharePoint Online

Enabling Custom Scripts in SharePoint Online

Custom scripts are now disabled in SharePoint Online for security reasons by default. As a result, Articulate content with the story.html file renamed to story.aspx in the published output that previously worked with SharePoint Online might not work anymore.

If you don't need to track learners' progress or results, check out these free or low-cost options for web hosting.

If you need to use SharePoint Online, your SharePoint admin may be able to resolve this issue by following the steps below. (Note that we don't provide support for either workaround.)

As of July 10, 2024, SharePoint users will find that they are required to reenable the Custom Scripts feature every 24 hours, reverting the Custom Scripts setting to its default and disabled state. Please see Microsoft’s article on Custom Script settings for more information.

Enabling Custom Script via the SharePoint Admin Center

If you don't need instant access, follow these steps.

Go to the SharePoint admin center and sign in with your credentials.
In the sidebar to the left of the page, click Settings. (If you're using the Modern admin center, click the classic settings page hyperlink at the bottom of the Settings page.)
Scroll to the Custom Script section, then select the options to Allow users to run custom script on personal sites and Allow users to run custom script on self-service created sites.
Click OK to save your changes. Note that this change may take up to 24 hours to appear.

Enabling Custom Script in SharePoint Online via PowerShell

For instant access, follow these steps.

Open Windows PowerShell with admin privileges, then run Install-Module -Name PnP.PowerShell

Run this command: Connect-PnPOnline -Url <url> -PnPManagementShell (replace <url> with your SharePoint URL, which will then generate a code for you to insert in your SharePoint admin center.)

Run these commands in PowerShell: (replace the URL after -Url in the first command with the link to your static site collection, such as https://companyabc.sharepoint.com/sites/StaticSite).
(If you need help creating a SharePoint site, refer to this article from Microsoft.)
1. Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://yourorg.sharepoint.com/sites/StaticSite
2. $site = Get-PnPSite
3. Set-PnPSite -Identity $site.URL -NoScriptSite $false

Your SharePoint site is almost ready to host HTML files! We just need to prepare the Articulate published output for upload. Here's how.

In SharePoint, choose where you will locate this project. You can create a new folder or use the Documents location created by default with all SharePoint sites.
Rename all the files with a .html extension in your unzipped published output folder to .aspx (keep the same file name). To do this, right-click the file, choose Rename, and then replace .html with .aspx. (Most projects only need to rename the analytics-frame.html and story.html files.

Finally, upload the published output to your SharePoint site, then click story.aspx to launch your Articulate course. This change should take effect immediately.

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IndraniSen-4a46
Community Member
3 years ago
No worries. I could follow all the steps. However, I think from our end, from the IT side they have blocked some items. I will see what I can do. Best

Indrani
JenniferBrow080
Community Member
3 years ago
I just downloaded a trial of Storyline 360 to verify that the extension change hack works like it does in Storyline 3, on SharePoint.com.

I had no problems publishing, changing the two files' extensions, uploading and playing in SharePoint.com. I'm a SharePoint site owner and simply made a library, and added the files to the library. Maybe a total of 5 minutes work.

If you're having issues, then I recommend making sure you are not overwriting old copies of the output folder or it's contents (either on your local computer, or on SharePoint).

I had one of my team members who has no special access to the SharePoint site/library test it and confirmed they could play the Storyline demos.

Storyline 360 and Post-Publishing Steps

1. Publish to Web

2. Change Story.HTML to Story.ASPX in the output folder

SharePoint.com Steps

1. Create a document library just for the output

2. Drag and drop all the contents of the output folder into the new library

3. Copy link to the Story.ASPX file

4. Use that link where you need to play the material. Link on a page, share in email, etc. The only hitch is if you put it in a location that others don't have at least read access to.

[edited to fix typo]
- ErikaHlywiak
  Community Member
  2 months ago
  Hi Jennifer, when you publish to the Web, are you using a C Drive? My concern is the actual integrity of the project. It will need to be saved in SharePoint so multiple users can access and make edits if needed. Have you encounter issues with that? I'm worried the file may become corrupted.
  - JenniferBrow080
    Community Member
    2 months ago
    When I publish, I publish to the Downloads folder as a rule. Always work locally with Storyline files. That location is not backed up by OneDrive so it reduces corruption. The output is then uploaded to SharePoint.
- TaraRohrbach
  Community Member
  2 years ago
  When I try to change the file name it becomes story.aspx.html. how are you getting rid of the .html portion?
  - JenniferBrow080
    Community Member
    2 years ago
    Are you attempting to change the file name before uploading? It must be an .ASPX file before it's uploaded.
- IndraniSen-4a46
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Perhaps a silly question. How do you creat e a library?
  - JenniferBrow080
    Community Member
    3 years ago
    Typically SharePoint is locked down and only a limited number of people can see site contents on a site and have the ability to create libraries. If you are able to see Site Contents, and do not see +New, then you don't have the permissions to create new lists, libraries, etc.
    
    If you use Microsoft Teams, by default that integrates with a SharePoint Team Site (basically the M365 version of SharePoint and not the same as a conventional communications site. If you can create a Team, and you can see Files, you can probably upload a Story Output folder. But again, that might be locked down.
    
    If you do not have the capability to create a library on your SharePoint.com communications site, that is something you will need to address internally in your organization (there's usually a SharePoint Admin team, but how you contact them is internal). If your organization is not using SharePoint.com (it will be in the site URL), then it's definitely an IT/SharePoint Admin consult required situation.
SherriFricker-7
Community Member
4 years ago
thanks. I'll give this a try.
SherriFricker-7
Community Member
4 years ago
I don't have a story.html file but I do have an index.html file. Will it work if I change that to image.aspx?
- JenniferBrow080
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  That should work.
  
  I work with the standalone client for Storyline 3; I know there are some differences. Any .HTM or .HTML files should be .ASPX.
  
  Also note that you will see a warning about changing extensions and stability; disregard them and click OK.
  - DorisChwist-87f
    Community Member
    3 years ago
    Hello Jennifer,
    
    I am having an issue with SharePoint as well. Would you mind doing a quick screen recording and uploading it to this thread. That would be such a great help!
SherriFricker-7
Community Member
4 years ago
@Jennifer can you explain the process you used? I don't have editing access to our Sharepoint page, but can pass it on to someone who does.

Thanks
- JenniferBrow080
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  Sure. It's very simple. Just needs it's own library, and the link so people can launch it.
  
  Actions for Storyline Author
  
  1. Publish to Web
  2. Change Story.HTML to Story.ASPX in the output folder
  3. Deliver output folder to whomever can upload to SharePoint
  
  Actions for SharePoint side
  
  1. Create a document library just for the output
  2. Place the contents of the output into the new SharePoint Library
  3. Use Story.ASPX as the target file
  
  Jennifer Brown
  - DeeAnnFeil
    Community Member
    3 years ago
    I tried this process but when i try and rename the story.html file to story.ASPX it does not allow me to change it?
JenniferBrow080
Community Member
4 years ago
Simply publishing to Web, and changing Story.HTML to Story.ASPX worked for me on SharePoint.com. No custom scripts needed.
- IndraniSen-4a46
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  How nice. Mine is not working.
- DanielaIancu
  Community Member
  3 years ago
  Jennifer, Is it possible that you are using SharePoint Server instead of SharePoint Online?
  - JenniferBrow080
    Community Member
    3 years ago
    I use SharePoint.com.
DanyLescarbeau
Community Member
4 years ago

Tyler Braddick

As a result, Articulate content with the story.html file renamed to story.aspx in the published output that previously worke

Hi,

In our settings, custom scripts is already actived. But, despite that we follow the procedure, when we open an aspx file it is downloaded instead of being opened. An idea why it's not working for us?

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