Why does articulate RISE/ST convert file names?

For anyone else following, here is the response I received from Articulate on this issue:

"Thanks for contacting Articulate Support!

I understand that you are having compatibility issues with Rising 360 and Adobe Experience Manager. Let me help you with that!

I found similar cases here and confirmed that Rise 360 is not compatible yet with Adobe Experience Manager. The workaround that we recommend for now is to:

1. Upload and host your Rise 360 course outside of AEM.
2. Pull it in via an iFrame or other embed method.

I also submitted a feature request to support embedding directly into AEM in the future. You should see another email to that effect shortly."

I'm not sure either of those options are going to work for us, so we may develop a script of our own to scrub and replace characters in filenames. Of course that will be time-consuming to develop, but once we have it in place we could use it for any future courses as well.

 

 

***@ E-Learning Heroes: Please remove if not allowed***

Update: I found a script that goes through the Rise files and scrubs any characters that don't mesh with the AEM filenaming conventions.

We've tested it by running the script on the Rise files, zipping them, uploading the .zip file to AEM, extracting them, and the Rise course does then work as expected.

If anyone would like to make sure of the script, it's located here:

https://github.com/raindog151/unarticulate-AEM

The developer asks for a donation since this was created independently.

***Disclaimer: This hasn't been run past Articulate, and I have no technical expertise to troubleshoot anything on the script. Just wanted to share in case it's helpful for others.***