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How to upload Articulate Storyline files to RoboHelp 2019 (new UI)

  • September 3, 2020
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Hi, Everyone.

 

Can anyone tell me how to upload Articulate Storyline files to RoboHelp 2019 (new UI)?  There's lots of instruction on the Web for older versions of RH, just not 2019, new UI.

 

And are their options for displaying the Storyline content -- I mean, embedding within a topic vs. making the Storyline content its own topic?

 

Thank you!

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    Correct answer Captiv8r

    Over all my years of participating in forums supporting RoboHelp, one of the frequently observed things was confusion over what needs to happen to make something like Storyline files play.

     

    I find it's most helpful to work using the following approach.

     

    At the end of the day when all is said and done, what you need to consider is that something like Storyline output is in and of itself a kind of ecosystem. There are likely many files and possibly a folder structure that make up the Storyline output.

     

    Your goal, of course, is to add those to RoboHelp in a way that they are left intact. Then however you are making the link available to your end viewer, make that link point to the single file that opens and launches the Storyline (or whatever output) content.

     

    In older versions of RoboHelp, we did this using Baggage. But the new beast is likely different. And I'm sure Peter or others will tell you how to accomplish that in the new version.

     

    If your Storyline output has a folder structure, you will need to ensure the same identical folder structure exists in your RoboHelp project along with all the assorted files that are inside each of the folders.

     

    Hopefully nobody here feels as if I'm talking down to them at all. I just felt this was a subject that could stand some clarification.

     

    Cheers... Rick 🙂

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    martinl83372021Author
    Inspiring
    September 8, 2020

    Hi, Peter.

     

    I've had mixed success with this. Success when generating output to my C-drive. But not when uploading .aspx output to SharePoint. The Storyline topic does appear in the TOC (screenshot):

     

     

    But when I click it, I get the "404 not found" error.

     

    The error is my fault -- I have not followed your instructions completely, where you say,

    • "If they are straight HTML files that were added as baggage files, you would copy them into your project structure using File Explorer and then add them to your TOC as described in the RoboHelp Reimagined project in the TOC topic."
    • I did not know where to put that collection of Storyline output files. And the RH Reimagined page does not give that guidance.

     

    Here's what I've done:

    1. Using the "New Topic" button in the TOC editor, I've created the Storyline test topic, referencing the .html5 file "story_html5.html" on my C-drive. 
    2. This new topic does display just fine when the output is simply on my C-drive. But after uploading the .aspx output files to SharePoint, I get the "404 not found" error. 
    3. When I sift through the .aspx files uploaded to SharePoint, I do not see the single "story_html5.html"  

     

    My question now is, Where in my project should I put all those Storyline .html5 output files?  That seems to be the only step I'm missing.

     

    Thank you!

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    martinl83372021Author
    Inspiring
    September 4, 2020

    Interesting. I will attempt it. Thanks for the specifics!

     

    Peter, I’m sorry if my previous message came across as snooty. Didn’t mean to! ☹

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    September 4, 2020

    Maybe people have been using them for over a decade. I haven't. 🙂

     

    If they are straight HTML files that were added as baggage files, you would copy them into your project structure using File Explorer and then add them to your TOC as described in the RoboHelp Reimagined project in the TOC topic.

     

    All the files will need to be added to the TOC. Those you don't want shown in the TOC you mark as hidden.

     

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    martinl83372021Author
    Inspiring
    September 4, 2020

    The Articulate Storyline output files are not proprietary. They look like this:

    People have been inserting this content into RH projects for over a decade. I just can't find any instructions for how to do this in RH 2019, new UI. 

     

    • For older versions of RH, the instructions say to import the whole collection of output files as "baggage." But I don't see anything like that in RH 2019, new UI.
    • And I've tried importing just the HTML5 file using the Import > HTML Topic menu. But it made RH hang on the spinning process meter (the import never completed). 

     

    What do you mean by "link them into a test project first"?

     

    Thank you!

     

     

     

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    September 3, 2020

    Does Articulate create HTML5 and CSS3 compliant pages or are they proprietary? If the former you either import them or link them into a test project first. If the latter unless someone seeing this has done it before, it will be an experiment. 🙂 Can they be saved in some other format?

     

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