Open URL/file in HTML5

Report · Jul 14, 2017

I'm working on several projects and I want to link them, so that when, let's say, a user gets a certain point total (as determined by Advanced Actions), a new Captivate lesson will open. This works fine in SWF, but when the lessons are in HTML5 format it's not working. Now, I am playing around with this on my local environment, since I don't have access to the server environment.

Speaking of which, my company has created it's own LMS (for some reason I can't comprehend, since we're not in that line of work at all) and it's not SCORM-compliant or any other kind of compliant. So I'm just wondering how we might make this work. It's probably just a matter of making sure the Index.html files are in the same folder or something along those lines, but I fear it might be a bit more complicated. Anyway, I just want to point these pin-heads in the right direction. Thanks.

Report · Jul 16, 2017

won't work in a local environment unless you have a local web server. do you?

Report · Jul 16, 2017

Yes, I'm aware of that fact. I don't care about getting it to work locally - I want to get it working on the server that's hosting our LMS. So I just need some information that I can convey to the developers. I want to start making these Captivate trainings available on our LMS and the people who created it don't know anything about this stuff. The powers-that-be, however, now finally realize (after 2+ years of my trying to convince them) that interactive training tools are a vital need. Thanks.

Report · Jul 16, 2017

well, please forgive me if you already know this, but if you have a lesson on the LMS that you want to transfer the learner to, and you can already get to that lesson through a browser, the URL in the address bar is all you need. just copy that URL from the target lesson, and put into the success action of your prior lesson in the "on success, go to url" action. http://<url> is all you need. If there is something more specific, perhaps a conversation would help. sdwarwick <at> elearningocean <dot> com

Report · Jul 16, 2017

I'm a little confused. Let me try to better explain (although I might not be approaching this incorrectly). Right now, I've got an advanced interaction that's keeping track of how many "workflows" the user has completed by means of a counter. If the user has completed 9 or more workflows, I want to automatically send him/her to the next lesson, so I used a script which (if v_successTotal is greater than or equal to 9) opens the index.html file of the next lesson using the Open URL or File action.

So I'm just wondering (since I can't test it locally) what has to be done on the server side to make this work. Thanks for your assistance.