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How to upload Articulate Storyline files to RoboHelp 2019 (new UI)

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September 3, 2020
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Hi, Everyone.

Can anyone tell me how to upload Articulate Storyline files to RoboHelp 2019 (new UI)? There's lots of instruction on the Web for older versions of RH, just not 2019, new UI.

And are their options for displaying the Storyline content -- I mean, embedding within a topic vs. making the Storyline content its own topic?

Thank you!

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Correct answer Captiv8r

Over all my years of participating in forums supporting RoboHelp, one of the frequently observed things was confusion over what needs to happen to make something like Storyline files play.

I find it's most helpful to work using the following approach.

At the end of the day when all is said and done, what you need to consider is that something like Storyline output is in and of itself a kind of ecosystem. There are likely many files and possibly a folder structure that make up the Storyline output.

Your goal, of course, is to add those to RoboHelp in a way that they are left intact. Then however you are making the link available to your end viewer, make that link point to the single file that opens and launches the Storyline (or whatever output) content.

In older versions of RoboHelp, we did this using Baggage. But the new beast is likely different. And I'm sure Peter or others will tell you how to accomplish that in the new version.

If your Storyline output has a folder structure, you will need to ensure the same identical folder structure exists in your RoboHelp project along with all the assorted files that are inside each of the folders.

Hopefully nobody here feels as if I'm talking down to them at all. I just felt this was a subject that could stand some clarification.

Cheers... Rick 🙂

Peter Grainge

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Probably best to start a new thread. I won't be answering though as I have no Sharepoint knowledge either. Others do though.

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martinl83372021Author

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Thanks so very much, Rick, Jeff, and Peter. I've have now successfully inserted Storyline (SL) output into RH, and it plays!

One thing I can clarify: after getting the entire SL output folder into my RH "contents" folder (via File Explorer), I then edit my RH TOC and drag the SL starter file, only, from Contents into my TOC. I do not need to bring the entire SL output folder into my TOC.

Peter, my next question is how to get this to play in SharePoint Online. Should I start a new forum thread for this?

Thank you, Gentlemen!

Captiv8rCorrect answer

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Over all my years of participating in forums supporting RoboHelp, one of the frequently observed things was confusion over what needs to happen to make something like Storyline files play.

I find it's most helpful to work using the following approach.

At the end of the day when all is said and done, what you need to consider is that something like Storyline output is in and of itself a kind of ecosystem. There are likely many files and possibly a folder structure that make up the Storyline output.

Your goal, of course, is to add those to RoboHelp in a way that they are left intact. Then however you are making the link available to your end viewer, make that link point to the single file that opens and launches the Storyline (or whatever output) content.

In older versions of RoboHelp, we did this using Baggage. But the new beast is likely different. And I'm sure Peter or others will tell you how to accomplish that in the new version.

If your Storyline output has a folder structure, you will need to ensure the same identical folder structure exists in your RoboHelp project along with all the assorted files that are inside each of the folders.

Hopefully nobody here feels as if I'm talking down to them at all. I just felt this was a subject that could stand some clarification.

Cheers... Rick 🙂

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

Baggage Files is really a term for files that would not have been part of the build in Classic versions. Now you simply add files to the TOC and then select the Hide in Output option.

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Jeff_Coatsworth

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See "Baggage" on this page - https://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/rh_tour/rh2019/rh2019.htm

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martinl83372021Author

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Hi, Peter.

You talked earlier about .html files being added "as baggage files." How exactly do you add .html files to RH 2019 new UI as baggage files?

I don't see any import menu item specifically for "baggage." So, I'm guessing you do that via File Explorer. But do you put the files somewhere specific so that they're considered "baggage"?

Thank you!

Marty

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martinl83372021Author

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Hi GBR,

Thanks for your post. I'm afraid the writing is a bit advanced for me, though. My html knowledge is very basic.

However, I do have one question for you. Will embedding Storyline (HTML) content in RoboHelp make the final product incompatible with SharePoint? I mean, will the Storyline video embedded in my RH manual be playable in SharePoint?

I'm wondering if that's why you've specifically chosen to host your Storyline / RoboHelp product in a Web-based cloud service.

Thanks very much!

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gbr_

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Hi Martin, maybe I can help out here.

I'm working with RH 2019 (new UI) for about a year now, and added a bunch of e-learning courses made with Storyline like you want to do.

Other than you, I'm pulishing to a web space on a cloud service, not to Sharepoint.

And other than you, I'm hosting the e-learnings on the cloud service in a separate web space so I could link to the starter .html file by URL.

At first, I added the this link to the ToC like Peter suggested. The downside of that method was that there was no way to tell "open the e-learning course in a new browser window or tab". I tried to write the target="_blank" attribute at the <a> tag into the ToC directly (since it's pure XML you can open the ToC file with any text editor or code editor and add this attribute at that one link).

But that didn't work out well, it was just being deleted from the file during generating the output.

The best way we found to "embed" the e-learning courses with a fair user experience is making a topic and placing some links into the description. That's easy for us because the content is in a web space anyway. Maybe for your use case with publishing on Sharepoint, you should first publish the e-learning content there and pick the URL to the story.html (or directly to the story_html5.html) file to place it into a web link in RoboHelp.

Let me know if that works - perhaps some day I might need to rely on that solution, too.

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martinl83372021Author

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Oh, darn. Thanks, though, Peter. You've given me a good start. I should be able to figure this out.

Back to it!

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

I'm sorry but I have no knowledge of Articulate so I can't help you on this one.

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