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Kirsten98BC
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January 12, 2021
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No more Flash Player...what do I do?

  • 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
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    January 12, 2021

    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
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    January 12, 2021
    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
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      RodWardCommunity Expert
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      January 14, 2021

      Yes that is correct.  Adobe gave several notice several years ago that Flash was ending. 

       

      Anyone who did their homework on EXE output from Captivate would know these are actually self-running Flash SWF players.   Whether or not the EXE files will launch on an end user's system at this point in time will depend very much on the exact configuration of that system.  Some may, but most won't.


      You can tell your management that Captivate 2019 has now been around since late 2018, more than two years ago.   Had Adobe agressively decided to drop publishing support for SWF or EXE output when Cp 2019 was released there would have been howls of protest from organisations that felt the Flas EOL was still a long way off and they needed to support their current output.  But Adobe and every other authoring tool vendor have been warning NOT to keep using Flash.  If your management chose to ignore that advice, they have nobody else to blame but themselves.

       

      Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should.  This is ONE reason why I've never taken up bungee jumping.

       

      In your specific situation, I would suggest you try looking into using HTML5 content delivered from a CD ROM which launches its own web server when it starts up.  That's a much better solution than EXE, but it means you are going to need to work out the technical details.

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