Steve Flowers
Steve Flowers
Performance Consultant and Producer at U.S. Government Agency
  • About

    Steve Flowers

    ***My opinions are my own and do not reflect past, present, or future employer's views*** @xpconcept on twitter. General and specialized problem solver, designer in multiple disciplines, and developer (tool pilot), change agent and solution champion. Co-wrote a book on Storyline: http://go...
  • Washington DC Area
  • Website
  • Contact Me
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Send and Receive Offline Data
"Consider looking at the xAPI specification. Rather than creating your own, you might bend an existing server framework."
  • 5 years ago04/20/19 at 5:42 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Everything we know about Cornerstone on Demand and Storyline!
"Hi Deborah. You shouldn't need to adjust anything in the browser or downgrade the compatibility from Cornerstone. This seems like a bad i..."
  • 5 years ago03/28/19 at 12:42 am (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Published course does not play in LMS ie IE 11
"Hi Desiree - What LMS are you uploading the file to? "
  • 5 years ago03/11/19 at 9:25 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Next button disabling until user interacts with 5 of 10 objects
"Yes. I've done something similar in the past. As Michael points out, the same object would contribute to the unlock.  Another way to do ..."
  • 5 years ago03/11/19 at 9:08 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Feature request/idea for bullet lists
"Would be great to be able to expand text blocks and show the components within (paragraphs, bullets) as items as you would with a group o..."
  • 5 years ago03/11/19 at 9:03 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Is Articulate 360 WCAG 2.0 compliant?
"At WCAG 2.0 level A, I suspect users are going to find Storyline output to be accessible. There are some problems with AA and AAA, howeve..."
  • 5 years ago03/09/19 at 5:47 am (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Animated text
""Unfortunately I know nothing about programing/script writing." The perfect starting place for a Javascript obsession:) Copying and past..."
  • 5 years ago03/07/19 at 3:55 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Animated text
"Finally got a few minutes to test out the theory. Works out pretty well. You would need to modify it to use multiple different text block..."
  • 5 years ago03/07/19 at 4:02 am (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Animated text
"Something like this might work for a single field. Setup a variable called textInput and another for textOutput. Then set your textInput ..."
  • 5 years ago03/06/19 at 4:57 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Letters 't' and 'f' going missing in Storyline 360 for small population of users?
"Yeah. I think that might work. The only worry that I'd have is the possibility that the font used in SL is configured to use ligatures an..."
  • 5 years ago02/28/19 at 2:22 am (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Letters 't' and 'f' going missing in Storyline 360 for small population of users?
"Using safe fonts may help.  The font problem shouldn't be present on tablet, smartphone, or any browser that isn't IE. It seems like lots..."
  • 5 years ago02/27/19 at 4:37 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Letters 't' and 'f' going missing in Storyline 360 for small population of users?
"This is caused by a security setting in IE. If Fonts are set to "Disable" then web fonts won't load. This causes a couple of symptoms. Fi..."
  • 5 years ago02/27/19 at 2:04 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Keyboard Shortcut Key triggers not working on Storyline 3
"Hi Steve. Your file works for me. You'll want to take care not to use keys that are already used by the screen reader. JAWS, for example,..."
  • 5 years ago02/27/19 at 2:13 am (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion It's that time of year again where I complain about Web Objects
"Those are great tricks. Been working with Web Objects since they added the feature and have been doing it the hard way:)"
  • 5 years ago02/27/19 at 1:46 am (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion It's that time of year again where I complain about Web Objects
"Haha. Yes. I feel your pain. The cycle for updating web objects is a little painful. I use them all of the time to carry on files. Would ..."
  • 5 years ago02/26/19 at 9:08 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion button will NOT go to next slide
"Hi Kristen,  If you ungroup the speech bubble on the left and add the text into the bubble itself then apply your wipe, it will fix the ..."
  • 5 years ago02/26/19 at 1:08 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion button will NOT go to next slide
"Hi Kristine -  You found an odd Storyline-ism:) By hiding half of the objects on the slide, I was able to narrow the problem down to gro..."
  • 5 years ago02/25/19 at 9:28 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Storyline downgrades the audio sample rate to 22050 Hz
"Another illustration. Even with my relatively low frequency voice, Storyline kills everything in the orange box. It's a noticeable change."
  • 5 years ago02/25/19 at 8:51 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Storyline downgrades the audio sample rate to 22050 Hz
"The audio channel in a published video (mp4) is sampled at 44100. Audio by itself (mp3) is sampled at 22050. The lower sample rate *shoul..."
  • 5 years ago02/25/19 at 8:42 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Removing Timing from all slides in Storyline
"Another trick that might be helpful. Let's say you have a slide that somehow extended to 1 minute but you only have 15 seconds of audio o..."
  • 5 years ago02/22/19 at 7:34 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Letters 't' and 'f' going missing in Storyline 360 for small population of users?
"Hi June -  Is this happening only in IE11 for you or are you seeing it in other browsers as well?  "
  • 5 years ago02/18/19 at 9:16 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Retrieve LMS User Name as Variable
"Hi Angela -  Depends on how / where it's displayed. When the course launches, if the info is contained in the query string ?value=name, ..."
  • over 5 years ago02/04/19 at 10:36 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Pipeline Flow Animation
"You might get along pretty well with Animatron Studio as well. Generating a video and inserting into Storyline would produce some nice re..."
  • over 5 years ago02/03/19 at 9:41 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion Pipeline Flow Animation
"The wipe animation is good for signal and fluid flows. I used to do electronic flows in PPT using this method back in the 90's. Worked re..."
  • over 5 years ago02/03/19 at 9:22 pm (UTC)
Activity
Steve Flowers replied to the discussion moving objects by 1 pixel
"Did you scale the image down from the original size? At 1:1, an image pixel is equivalent to a slide pixel."
  • over 5 years ago01/24/19 at 10:25 pm (UTC)