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marksheppard68
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August 8, 2023
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HTML5 from Captivate Classic not launching in SharePoint

  • August 8, 2023
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Hello all:

I recently completed a software simulation in CpC and we are deploying it via a departmental SharePoint site. (We do have a LMS but for the moment we are fighting the "Cannot load LMS API..." battle...that's another story.)

The output plays fine locally, and I was - after some tweaking of quiz settings - able to load it to SCORMCloud.

According to our IT folks, they *do* allow .json files in SharePoint, so that rules out the usual hiccup.

When I try to launch the index.html (or index_scorm.html) I am presented with a blank screen. (shown here) and the course doesn't launch. This issue happens regardless of browser used.

Any and all guidance will be gratefully received at this end.

-Mark

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    Correct answer RodWard

    From what I have read in other threads it is possible to do so... I'm just hoping to uncover the reason why my package won't launch.


    I have also heard people say that you can load web content into Sharepoint and get it to play, but in my experience that only applies if the web page is totally self-contained and does not need to link out to other files, even if those files appear to be in the same Sharepoint folder.  Sharepoint is designed to work more like a file server than a web server.  Captivate's HTML5 content relies on many different files being able to maintain their links to one another and that just doesn't work in Sharepoint.

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    oconnorp19795172
    oconnorp19795172
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    February 13, 2024

    Hello All,

    Wanted to add a solution to this thread, especially for those folks posting published courses on Federal and/or DoD SharePoint sites.

     

    It is not ideal, but changing the .json files in the dr folder to a .txt extension will work.  Naturally, you have to change the .json references (to .txt) in the index.html and the imgmd files (open with Notepad, do a Replace All and Save).

     

    Also, some Federal SP sites will try to open (and not launch) the index.html file.  So, copy/paste the index.html file (in the same folder structure) and change the copied index.html file extension to .aspx.

     

    The above is tedious, but it is a workaround for the .json dilemma discussed in this thread.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    August 8, 2023

    It looks like you created a SCO, because you launch from the file index_scorm.html.

    However Sharepoint is NOT a LMS, which means you cannot deploy a SCO on it. You need a LMS for that purpose.

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    marksheppard68Author
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    August 8, 2023

    Thanks... I am aware that it's not a LMS, however, even when I turn off quiz reporting and use that output to try to launch the index.html, I get the same result.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    August 8, 2023

    Can it really be functional as a simple webserver, because that is required when you upload a non-SCO published output folder. In the past I learned from other users that that was amongst the functionalities of Sharepoint but I have no experience with it. It is correct that you should publish without activating Reporting for a non-SCO but I just saw in the screenshot that it was trying to launch the SCORM index file.

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