I am developing courses in Arabic Language. I just started using Articulate 360. I tried to add content using Rise. I could add Arabic text, but I faced many issues.
Numbering and bullet list come left the text. As Arabic is a right-to-left language, it should be right.
Text alignment also is left to right
Navigation Bar is left
No Arabic fonts available, I could only use the default one.
Any update here? Could you please be more specific what "future update" means? We have to plan and allocate our resources, as it really depends on which tools we can use.
Thanks for checking in. We do not have plans to include right-to-left support in Rise 360 right now.
If our plans change and we decide to add this feature to our roadmap, we'll let you know. I hope this helps you to make informed decisions as you plan ahead for upcoming projects.
Any kind of update would be helpful. In January we have added Hebrew to our language portfolio, which makes a right-to-left support even more important.
An additional suggestion for Articulate team: Have you considered releasing RTL support as a "beta" feature, even if it does not give 100% perfect results? We are tweaking the CSS files, which works quite well and maybe this could be an option.
Rise is a fantastic tool and it is a shame that we cannot use its full potential.
Hey Dominik, as rtl translations are a necessity for us, we can only use a limited number of block types when implementing the dir="RTL" attribute in the CSS once published. Do you have any guidelines or recommendations for tweaking the CSS or considerations for rtl language implementation?
Hi Dorrien, Unfortunately I am not the CSS expert in our team. I know that we also had issues with some of the blocks. Let me check with my colleagues, they should be able to give a proper answer.
Any update on this? I have imported an Arabic Translated XLF file and it shows Right to Left as it was edited by an native speaker in his own country. When previewed, it switches to left to right.
I go through all of the text in the document to change it from Right to Left but the full stops and bullet points etc do not get effected by this.
Unfortunately, although more than three years have passed since the first request for the management of RTL languages, an integrated solution in Rise does not yet appear to be available.
As previously mentioned by Dominik, since the beginning of the year, in our course offer we manage 2 RTL languages and after several attempts the following is currently the best temporary solution to which I have arrived.
Also be aware that this solution still does not work perfectly with all blocks.
Please let me know if anyone has comments or suggestions.
Regards, Raphael
Rise RTL workaround
Export course from Articulate Rise (I tested it using TinCan format)
Unzip the downloaded file
Locate the index.html file and open it for editing
Change the <HTML> tag: from: <html lang="en" class=""> to: <html lang="ar" class="" dir="rtl"> for Arabic or to: <html lang="he" class="" dir="rtl"> for Hebrew
Save and close the index.html file
Locate the main.bundle.css file in lib folder and open it for editing
I would also like to add my vote for Articulate to further investigate this option, as RTL text is an increasingly important aspect of ensuring access for our learners. I truly hope that this is on the roadmap somewhere as our ideal is to purchase licenses for our organisation, but without RTL we cannot do that.
I really appreciate Raphael's workaround, but would also echo the request that has been made here by many earlier for rise to prioritize rtl-support as a standard feature in its coming upgrade.
This was very helpful to us in delivering a translated presentation to our customer. I would like to ask: Does anyone has a translated xlf file with labels in arabic?
We do not have plans to include right-to-left support in Rise 360 right now. If our plans change and we decide to add this feature to our roadmap, we'll let you know.
4 years ago Adam wrote that Articulate will tackle the RTL topic in Q1/2017. What has happened since then? We are desperately waiting for this feature. I would really love to know, how many companies/people have requested this feature so far.
We are very much waiting for this feature, as there are numerous clients which require Arabic translations. While the workaround has been helpful (provided by the community), it is still limiting in that we cannot use the desired range of block types, Articulate really needs to please provide some more input other than a stock message which is essentially meaningless.
This is really rather disappointing, considering the amount of people that have requested this feature and the amount of time that has passed since the first request.
I appreciate you taking the time to share how important right-to-left language support is for you. I want to be fully transparent so that you can make informed decisions for your future projects: right-to-left language support isn’t on our roadmap for development.
I understand that some people in this discussion have been requesting this feature for a while, and that doesn’t go unnoticed. We track every request we see in the community and evaluate them alongside our queue of bug fixes, new features already on the roadmap, and other projects.
Please keep in mind our roadmap is fluid and can change as priorities shift. Ultimately we commit to investing in features that have the broadest impact on the majority of customers. We will update you if we decide to add this feature to our roadmap in the future.
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Hi Articulate Team,
Any update here? Could you please be more specific what "future update" means? We have to plan and allocate our resources, as it really depends on which tools we can use.
Thank you.
Hi Dominik,
Thanks for checking in. We do not have plans to include right-to-left support in Rise 360 right now.
If our plans change and we decide to add this feature to our roadmap, we'll let you know. I hope this helps you to make informed decisions as you plan ahead for upcoming projects.
Hello,
As you can see this is 2020 and there's still no update about ETA.
I have to say Rise 360 is an amazing tool and has a tremendous potential.
Supporting RTL and font design for those languages would make Rise my main, if not only, product i would sell to my clients.
I was optimistic that this problem will be solved after a couple of months but after seeing this discussion I'm much more pessimistic.
It's a shame it is stuck on something that minor.
Would really appreciate an update about progress and ETA for this matter.
Thank,
Yuval
Agreed. This product feature request has been running for over 3 years.
Any kind of update would be helpful. In January we have added Hebrew to our language portfolio, which makes a right-to-left support even more important.
An additional suggestion for Articulate team: Have you considered releasing RTL support as a "beta" feature, even if it does not give 100% perfect results? We are tweaking the CSS files, which works quite well and maybe this could be an option.
Rise is a fantastic tool and it is a shame that we cannot use its full potential.
Luis, did you ever share this document? I would be keen to take a look?
Hey Dominik, as rtl translations are a necessity for us, we can only use a limited number of block types when implementing the dir="RTL" attribute in the CSS once published. Do you have any guidelines or recommendations for tweaking the CSS or considerations for rtl language implementation?
Hi Dorrien, Unfortunately I am not the CSS expert in our team. I know that we also had issues with some of the blocks. Let me check with my colleagues, they should be able to give a proper answer.
Any update on this? I have imported an Arabic Translated XLF file and it shows Right to Left as it was edited by an native speaker in his own country. When previewed, it switches to left to right.
I go through all of the text in the document to change it from Right to Left but the full stops and bullet points etc do not get effected by this.
Any update on Right to Left languages?
Dear all,
Unfortunately, although more than three years have passed since the first request for the management of RTL languages, an integrated solution in Rise does not yet appear to be available.
As previously mentioned by Dominik, since the beginning of the year, in our course offer we manage 2 RTL languages and after several attempts the following is currently the best temporary solution to which I have arrived.
Also be aware that this solution still does not work perfectly with all blocks.
Please let me know if anyone has comments or suggestions.
Regards,
Raphael
Rise RTL workaround
index.htmlfile and open it for editingfrom:
<html lang="en" class="">to:
<html lang="ar" class="" dir="rtl">for Arabicor to:
<html lang="he" class="" dir="rtl">for Hebrewindex.htmlfilemain.bundle.cssfile inlibfolder and open it for editingINPUTpane on https://rtlcss.com/playground/# (this link will bring you to a third party website)OUTPUTpanemain.bundle.cssmain.bundle.cssAwesome, thanks Raphael.
Thanks Raphael, which blocks is is still not working on?
We have found some issues with Image Carousel, Quote Carousel, Stacked Flash Cards and Process blocks.
There might be also some other blocks (we have not yet tried all of them).
For some blocks we saw inconsistencies with previous and next buttons ("<" and ">" arrows).
Hi there,
I would also like to add my vote for Articulate to further investigate this option, as RTL text is an increasingly important aspect of ensuring access for our learners. I truly hope that this is on the roadmap somewhere as our ideal is to purchase licenses for our organisation, but without RTL we cannot do that.
I really appreciate Raphael's workaround, but would also echo the request that has been made here by many earlier for rise to prioritize rtl-support as a standard feature in its coming upgrade.
Thanks to Raphael Cominelli for sharing!
This was very helpful to us in delivering a translated presentation to our customer. I would like to ask: Does anyone has a translated xlf file with labels in arabic?
Best regards,
Henrik
what about the arabic support for rise ? still not working in arabic ? RTL
Hi Ahmed,
We do not have plans to include right-to-left support in Rise 360 right now. If our plans change and we decide to add this feature to our roadmap, we'll let you know.
4 years ago Adam wrote that Articulate will tackle the RTL topic in Q1/2017. What has happened since then? We are desperately waiting for this feature. I would really love to know, how many companies/people have requested this feature so far.
We are very much waiting for this feature, as there are numerous clients which require Arabic translations. While the workaround has been helpful (provided by the community), it is still limiting in that we cannot use the desired range of block types, Articulate really needs to please provide some more input other than a stock message which is essentially meaningless.
This is really rather disappointing, considering the amount of people that have requested this feature and the amount of time that has passed since the first request.
I second that.
+1
Hi everyone,
I appreciate you taking the time to share how important right-to-left language support is for you. I want to be fully transparent so that you can make informed decisions for your future projects: right-to-left language support isn’t on our roadmap for development.
I understand that some people in this discussion have been requesting this feature for a while, and that doesn’t go unnoticed. We track every request we see in the community and evaluate them alongside our queue of bug fixes, new features already on the roadmap, and other projects.
Please keep in mind our roadmap is fluid and can change as priorities shift. Ultimately we commit to investing in features that have the broadest impact on the majority of customers. We will update you if we decide to add this feature to our roadmap in the future.