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

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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.

S

snelson13

Participant

Macromedia, Inc. was an American graphics, multimedia, and web development software company (1992–2005) headquartered in San Francisco, California that made products such as Flash and Dreamweaver. It was purchased by its rival Adobe Inc. on December 3, 2005

I am betting I am like the other unhappy learning developers here, an end-user, not the person inking the high priced contracts. I can say as an end-user Adobe has sent many, many marketing emails to me but none that say in the subject "End of Life, Captivate". I am sure if I researched on my own or read all of their news it was in there, but I did not again because I am an end-user worker bee. I also think that in this environment of required online learning due to CV-19, Adobe has really missed an opportunity to gain market share knowing there was an issue and not developing new tools, workarounds, or support, that would have seemed to me to be a no-brainer from a monetary point of view.

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