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hkb84
hkb84
New Participant
January 4, 2017
Question

External URL links in Captivate 9

  • January 4, 2017
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Help! I am using captivate 9 and in my course I have url links to external sites.

when publishing it get the following error message: 'After publishing, ensure that you copy all referenced files to the output folder...'

But I don't know how to do this! Can anybody help please?

Thanks in advance.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Brainiac
    January 4, 2017

    You get that warning because you used the command 'Open URL or File'. If you don't have files linked to the project, ignore the warning. If you have files, you need to check that they are referenced with a relative path, and upload them so that it can be found with the same path. That could be in the root of the published package, or in the callees folder in case of publishing to HTML5, not so important if the path is correct. For website links, you could also have used the web object.

    hkb84
    hkb84Author
    New Participant
    January 4, 2017

    Thank you for your reply. it's the uploading the URLs to the output folder or callees folder I'm confused about; do I just do it as url shortcuts?

    What's the web object?

    Justenuf2bdangerous
    Justenuf2bdangerous
    Inspiring
    January 5, 2017

    Most likely a security issue (as you suspect).  Upload your content to a web server and test from there.


    Just a  weird little tangent here: if the linked url points the user to a downloadable pdf or other file, then it will work in preview (because you already downloaded the file from the web address), but it won't work in the published version.

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