captivate generated scorm warning from lms

[shanahyvat]

Version:	1.2
Course Path:	/Files/scorm/OSD/testscorm
Identifier:	Course_ID1

Warnings:

LoadMetadata (Manifest): LoadLangstring: More than one  langstring have the same language for the element keyword

then again here

Identifier:	Course_ID1_ORG
Title:	Title of the course (Class)
Warnings:	LoadMetadata (Manifest): LoadLangstring: More than one  langstring have the same language for the element keyword
	Identifier: SCO_ID1 Identifier Ref: SCO_ID1_RES Title: Object Title (Course)

I kept most of the defaults in the settings, only chancing teh course name from "Captivate ..."

[Guest]

Hi Shanahyvat,

Which LMS are you using?

And which version of Captivate are you using?

[shanahyvat]

I'm using Captivate version 4.

The LMS vendor is learn.com.

They did not help me at all and referred me only to adl.org.

I don't see any consequences to the warnings, but I want to know whats going on.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.

[Erik_Lord]

Your LMS vendor should be more helpful. I guess it is technically a 'content' question but if they're going to alert the error, they should be able to tell you why it's an error...

Searching the web, the only other occurence of this error is this post:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/27704

and it doesn't appear to have been answered.

However, if his speculation is correct as to what part(s) of the manifest are causing this issue, I'd just go in and delete those lines.

Make a copy of your manifest as a backup, open it in notepad, and delete every line that starts/ends with <langstring xml:lang="x-none"></langstring>

Much of the stuff in a manifest isn't too critical. Hopefully by removing those lines, you might get past the error.... On the other hand, there may be references or somesuch that cause other errors...but it can't hurt to try (as long as you backup your original manifest 😉

Erik

[Guest · Accepted solution]

The problem is most likely going to be found in the "keywords" section towards the bottom of the "metadata" section of the imsmanifest.xml file.   Captivate tends to add an extra langstring line to the keywords section, so it looks like this:

<keyword>

  <langstring xml:lang="x-none">Adobe Captivate</langstring>
  <langstring xml:lang="x-none"></langstring>
</keyword>

That second empty langstring property is what is generating the warning by the XML parser.   You can ignore the warning, or manually remove that line.

Thanks,

Sam Lesher

Learn.com

[pixelgem10]

We're also using Learn.com, and Captivate 4.  What I've been doing is deleting that second langstring line.  However, if you edit the Captivate file then republish it, it will republish the imsmanifest file with the second langstring again -- forcing you to re-delete it.  Yet if you leave it in there, just ignore the error from Learn.com.  In the Learn SCORM Import window, just make sure you click the plus-signs to expand the warning information to make sure the second langstring is the only warning you get.

Hope this helps,

Maureen

[Andrew Chemey]

If you'd like to stop having to modify the IMSManifest.xml each time you publish - you can try this:

- Close Captivate

- Download a file from here:  http://www.learningconsulting.com/content/adobe/captivate/manifest.zip

- Extract the file "manifest.xml" from the zip

- Back-up and replace the file of same name from where Captivate is installed (typically:  C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 4\Templates\Publish\).

- Launch Captivate

- Publish a course and ensure no changes are necessary.

NOTE:  This is assuming using the SCORM 1.2 standard with Captivate 4

Regards,

Andrew

[pixelgem10]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks so much for this! It worked like a charm!

Best Regards,

Maureen

>If you'd like to stop having to modify the IMSManifest.xml each time you

publish - you can try this:

 

- Close Captivate

- Download a file from here: 

http://www.learningconsulting.com/content/adobe/captivate/manifest.zip

- Extract the file "manifest.xml" from the zip

- Back-up and replace the file of same name from where Captivate is

installed (typically:  C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate

4\Templates\Publish\).

- Launch Captivate

- Publish a course and ensure no changes are necessary.

 

NOTE:  This is assuming using the SCORM 1.2 standard with Captivate 4

 

 

Regards,

 

Andrew

>

[Andrew Chemey]

Maureen,

Thank you for confirming!

-Andrew

[Erik_Lord]

I would take this to your LMS vendor and see if they can help you determine what aspect of you imsmanifest.xml file may be related to these errors. I'm not expert enough on the intricate details of complex manifests to know where to look. If the LMS is, however, that particular, then hopefully the developers can point you exactly where to look and what to fix.

Erik