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Using Dev Tools with Storyline
Hi Tracy - it's possible that your DevTools console "JavaScript context" is in the wrong window.
At the top of most Consoles, there's a dropdown where you can select the context of the window you want to interact with, and especially when working with embeds, sometimes you have to manually switch to the window containing your project (look for story.html).
Typically, if you right-click > Inspect pages the console will take you to the proper context. But since most of the Storyline stage disables right-click, you often have to manually select it; either through the dropdown, or the element inspector where you can then select your Storyline stage which switches to that context.
This may not be the issue, but it's a common one for me.
Hi Tracy - it's possible that your DevTools console "JavaScript context" is in the wrong window.
At the top of most Consoles, there's a dropdown where you can select the context of the window you want to interact with, and especially when working with embeds, sometimes you have to manually switch to the window containing your project (look for story.html).
Typically, if you right-click > Inspect pages the console will take you to the proper context. But since most of the Storyline stage disables right-click, you often have to manually select it; either through the dropdown, or the element inspector where you can then select your Storyline stage which switches to that context.
This may not be the issue, but it's a common one for me.
Thank you so much. That worked. I was in the wrong window.
Thanks for posting this, Matthew. I'm delving into JS more with current my project, but I don't see any mention of story.html in the dropdown. Please can you point me in the right direction?
Hi Craig - it looks like you might have opened the DevTools from a different tab/window than the one that's currently running the Storyline course?
You might check that you didn't hit F12 too early (something that can happen if you're using an LMS that pops open a new window, and you hit F12 while the underlying LMS window is active instead of the new popup containing the course).
Thanks for getting back to me on this.
Hmmm, that doesn't appear to be the case, because this time I deliberately waited until the course had opened, and then I clicked on the slide to make sure it had the focus.
Mind you, it's on Google Cloud rather than an LMS, so I wonder if that has anything to do with it?
If you'd like to see what I mean, it's the Synthesia module, here: https://remotepossibilities.wordpress.com/portfolio/#synth
