No more Flash Player...what do I do?

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January 12, 2021
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Now that Adobe has stopped using Adobe Flash Player, can anyone tell me how I can publish my Captivate files and run them through a Sharepoint site? I used to publish them and then place the .swf file into Sharepoint to play them.

HELP!

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Lilybiri

Legend

Demise of Flash Player has been announced almost 4 years ago. Most companies have prepared for that and updated their Captivate courses since a while.

To answer your question more directly. HTML output is like a webste and needs to be uploaded to a webserver or a LMS. Sharepoint is not a webserver. That webserver needs to support JSON.

<Moreover not every feature is supported for HTML output and a lot of features are ONLY supported for HTML output. It is not just publishing to another output format, but needs serious reworking and checking. Since you uploaded just the SWF, you already lost some functionality because neither the JS nor the CSS file was invoked which happened only when the normal workflow, starting from the htm file was used. Maybe those courses had very little interactivity?

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Kirsten98BCAuthor

Participant

Hi Lilybiri,

Thanks for the information, but it does not answer the question I had,
which was 'what do I do'?

Instructions on how to publish and how I can place the published file on
Sharepoint would be helpful.

RodWard

Community Expert

HTML5 output is not a single file as was possible with SWF. Your HTML5 output is made up of dozens if not hundreds of files that must all work together and the output folder structure must be preserved otherwise linkages will break.

As Lieve tried to explain to you, HTML5 content is designed to be delivered from a web server, not a LAN server or local disc drive. And since a SharePoint server actually works more like a LAN file server, not a web server you are going to find that your HTML5 content cannot be run from SharePoint.

Very simple projects created in Captivate and output to HTML5 may still work when run from a LAN drive, but not if your project is a 360, or responsive, or interactive video project.

You need to forget about SharePoint and upload your HTML5 output to a web server. Additionally, that web server also needs to enable JSON files as well for everything to work.

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