Localization proxy language hack in Storyline 360: what can break?
Hi everyone, I’m using the Articulate Localization Add-on in Storyline 360 and I ran into a limitation: the target language I need (Papiamento) isn’t available in the Localization language list. So I’m considering a “proxy language” workaround and I’d love to sanity-check it with the community. What I’m trying to do In Localization, I add a supported language as a placeholder/proxy (e.g., English or Dutch — same script, LTR). I don’t rely on AI translations. Instead, I replace all translated strings manually with my own Papiamento translations (copy/paste). The goal is that the multilingual interface (language selector + localized content) shows Papiamento content everywhere, even if the internal language entry is technically a proxy. In other words: the course would display Papiamento text everywhere (content + questions/answers + feedback), but the language slot is a listed language. Main question Is there anything that could go wrong with this approach? I’m trying to identify pitfalls beyond “it’s not officially supported”. Questions / possible pitfalls (please confirm/deny) Metadata / language tagging: does the published output get tagged as the proxy language (e.g., HTML lang attributes, player language settings, LMS reporting)? Player UI strings / system messages: are those fully editable via Localization, or could some UI strings remain tied to the proxy language? Layout / text expansion: do you see UI/layout regressions when the real strings differ in length from the expected proxy language patterns? Accessibility: could screen readers behave incorrectly if lang metadata remains the proxy language? Maintenance: any gotchas when updating the source course later (re-sync overwriting manual edits, harder diffs, etc.)? What I’m looking for If anyone has tried something similar (using a listed language as a container for a non-listed language), I’d appreciate: What actually breaks (if anything) Best practices to minimize risk Whether you’d recommend a different workflow Context: I’ll publish to [SCORM 1.2 / SCORM 2004 / xAPI / Review / Web]. Thanks in advance!REPORTS & Creating Competition with Course Completion
Everybody loves a little competition - and if I can get leadership onboard, we might get INCENTIVES! (So, I really want this to work) GOAL: I am looking for an exportable CSV report in "ANALYZE" that will give me a live report of each user, their course assignments (2026 or lifetime is fine, both options are preferred), a separate column for each "group", and the "Assigned, Completed, In Progress" tag/column for each course. INTENT: To plug info into a pivot table and chart progress by department (REF: Each department has a group in my setup) Note: (for those who want to duplicate this initiative) showcasing your findings in a vertical bar chart makes the tasks feel like a race to complete; a well-received visual for competitive teams. CURRENT OBSTICLES: Pulling "Live/Current" Course Completion Status- When exporting completion/status reports, the CSV includes all attempts a user made to complete a course. Example: John Q. was assigned "Application of the Hypocritic Oath" and failed on his first two attempts but was able to "complete" it on his third try, his report would reflect three separate courses. While this still gathers the information needed, it is unsustainable when auditing 500 learners. Filtering CSV Reports by Group - CSV reports, when exported as "All Groups" and not by a specific one, will reflect all the user's respective groups, which is fine, except all groups are landing in one column in the same text box. While this can be manually adjusted, it is not sustainable and I am looking for a cleaner, more segregated filing system. Our Learning & Development team is SO excited to hear everyone's thoughts/ comments/ and recommendations!Using Articulate to provide advanced Microsoft Suite learning?
Happy Almost-Friday! I am looking for advice/ suggestions/ tips & tricks on incorporating advanced (or any) Microsoft Suite lessons into our library. For example, I would like to create a learning path in Articulate for "Microsoft Excel" That would allow a CFO to assign the path to their department leadership team to assess skill levels. I am not seeing any Microsoft or other hard skill courses in the "Create New" section when browsing learning opportunities for employees, but I am assuming others are able to incorporate hard skills into Articulate? END GOAL: Looking to incorporate and audit Hard Skill learning as we can with Soft Skill & Acumen/Internal learning.Transferring older Rise courses
Our company had an Articulate 360 license that has since lapsed and we have a new account with a different person as Admin. We would like to transfer a few of the Rise courses that were completed under the expired license to the new account. Is this possible and how do you do that?Did an update at some point break my DIY tabs?
I swear this used to work sweet and everyone loved it now it being funky. I've been having to use rise for a bit and this is my first go back on sl in a while. Anyway. So I do this diy tab thing with a main content box and then number boxes to change it, easy peasy. 2 custom states OVER and ON. basically hover and selected but I don't want them auto. The triggers it uses are; <change 1 to over when user hovers over 1 IF 1 IS NOT ON, set content to 1 when user clicks 1 and when content is 1 change 1 to ON and when any other number box is ON set 1 to NORMAL repeated as needed> Hopefully that makes sense and it's all working except for the hover behaviour, its just going back to normal regardless. It works better if I turn off restore previous state but then it stays as over. Are my triggers wrong? Do I need to add an ELSE? Should I turn off auto restore and just put a 99% transparent box behind it to trigger the change instead when user hovers over that? Should I just ditch the over step? (I like clickable things to let you know they're clickable before you click though, OVER also has a 10ms fade in/out because it looks better) See the behaviour here and the relevant triggers/states below. solo page sl file version attached https://360.articulate.com/review/content/bb66506d-ac4a-4e3c-992f-ae476a042d36/review triggers for number box to go over and change content box triggers for setting number boxes to on based on content box triggers for returning number boxes to normal when a different number is clicked number box states content box states (w/o content) Help me articulate forum, you're my only hope.Change HTML source language in Rise course
Dear community, We developed an e-learning in Dutch using Articulate Rise and have gotten it tested on accessibility. One of the comments on the course was that in the HTML of the course the source language is shown as English ("html lang=en"), even though the full course is in Dutch. This results in screen readers selecting the language as English instead of Dutch which causes issues in, for example, wrong pronunciation of words. To overcome this users will have to manually select a different language on their screen readers. I am wondering whether there is some kind of way to fix this and change the source language? Anyone experience with this? Many thanks for your help!Compatible Screen Reader
Hi, Is anyone able to recommend a free screen reader that is compatible with content published via Storyline 360 (not Rise)? I was under the impression that NVDA (https://www.nvaccess.org/download/) would work, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to. I've attached a sample of the Storyline file in question if this helps. Kind regards, Will
