Thursday, August 25, 2016

ARTICULATE STORYLINE:  HOW TO SET-UP A LINK ON A SLIDE TO OPEN ITEM IN RESOURCES.

1.            Add file to the Resources in your player.

2.            Navigate to slide you want to link to the file attachment in Resources, and select the text/image/object to be hyperlinked.

3.            Go to the Insert tab, and click Hyperlink.

4.            Select Jump to URL/File from the Action drop-down list.

5.            In the File field, type the below (replace Filename.pdf with the name of file, including file extension, same filename and ext as on in resources-MUST BE EXACT):

story_content/external_files/Filename.pdf


6.            Select the event to execute trigger from the When drop-down list, such as "User clicks". trigger:

7.            Click OK.


*Will not work in Preview, Publish, save to desktop, open in browser, MUST ALLOW ACTIVE X.