I have a question on the SDK. My particular need is to pass a variable through the flash movie so a viewer can click on a link in the movie and be redirected to a web page with the variable as part of the URL.

Is this possible using the SDK?

Yes, this is possible. The link that would open this Web page would need to reside in a custom tab or tool. Please contact us for more details.

Does SDK allow me to customize the player controls? As in get rid of the single play/pause/advance button, and make a new controller in flash.

James- Yes, this is possible with “ast_remote.fla” in slide-only mode. Please refer to the bottom of page 3 of the SDK documentation.

Is it possible to build a swf file which loads a flv video (full presenter video, e.g. 40 min - one single file)? And the file should be placed into the presenter panel and should stay there the whole presentation´s time, regardless of which slide is playing.
Thanks,
Arthur

Hi Arthur-

It’s currently not possible to have a single Flash movie span across multiple slides (only 1 Flash movie per slide is possible), but you’re welcome to request the feature for consideration in the future.

I have the same need as Arthur - the abiltiy to play one flv video and easily sync the slides to various points in the video.

Is there a way with the SDK to integrate custom Flash activities, but report back SCORM logic to the player?

Dwayne- I’m not clear what you’re trying to do, but you might want to submit a case or ask your question in the forums. The SDK isn’t really about SCORM or LMSes, though - it’s all about customizing things like the appearance of the player, adding custom tabs, creating custom controls, and the like.

Is it possible to remove the “Articulate Online” badge at the bottom left corner of the presenter window (provided you have the SDK)?

S

Hi Shane- You can remove the “Powered by Articulate” logo from the lower left-hand corner of the Articulate Player by following the instructions in this Knowledge Base entry.

Thanks Gabe. Much appreciated. S

hi

I have some question

1.1. I nee playback control bar on presenter panelvideo
is possible ?

2. Is posible to change tab,label, ot title in spanish (ej:Notes, thumbmail, search, net, previous) on your product .

3.I have the other question , i dowloaded your product presenter, is excelent.
You use the trigger player.html, is work well. i test the product , i am happy with this.

But i have one difficult, i dont use the trigger palyer.html, i have my owner container (contents) in flash , i make the script fla, is a windows container, i setup the paths player/playershell.swf, on my script appers the next error
Error opening URL “file:///C|/linuxrhce/c1p32/slidegroup.swf”, my container try to load movie playershell.

Sumary , How do i do to load, your presetation in my container. I dont like use code HTML,,,, i use only script flash 8 professional.

My container script must be any directory, for this case i put this in the same ( player.html).

When i execute playshell.swf , i do click on, this work well.

Hi Edgar-

I’ve submitted a case on your behalf with your questions, so that we can help you in more detail.

Our LMS is, laugh if you must, NOT SCORM compliant. How can I pass something like Student ID to an Articulate Presenter learning object? Would the SDK be usefull for something like that? Or is that more a more basic function?

Hi Judith-

The SDK is for modifying specific Player elements. The sample documentation outlines exactly what can be done.

Although there might be some creative ways to accomplish your goal, it is probably not possible with the SDK. You might want to ask about this in our forums, though.

I wish to insert a swf which provides a streaming inteface for flv’s into the presenters pane. Will the SDK allow us to pass flv filenames to this swf via the xml that currently drives articulate ??

I am inserting a flash .swf file with two frames into Articulate. It starts on Frame 1, then the learner clicks something, and it advances to Frame 2. I need to set it up where each frame of the flash file is viewed before the slide is considered complete in Articulate.

Does the API allow for this type communication between Flash and Articulate? Can inform Articualte that the Flash file is complete, and thus the Articualte slide is complete?

Thank you.

David & John- You might want to ask these questions in our community forums.

To Edgar’s point, is it possible to reference an Articulate presentation from an *externally-hosted* HTML page?

Thanks,
Andy

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Hi
with the SDK, is it possible to customize the layout of the slides of a WBT, particularly, have an identical layout for interactive Engage and not interactive Presenter slides? I would like to have a consistent slide layout regarding color, frames, titel etc. Thanks!

Hi,
we need a detailied Track-Report, in which every single slide-/videoaction can be monitored. We want to know more about the frequency of each Chapter.
Any Idea?
Thanks for your support
Dirk

Dirk- For tracking & reporting (down to the slide level), I’d recommend you sign up for a free trial of Articulate Online.

Kerstin- You can learn in Dave’s blog how to create custom Engage color schemes.

You might also want to go to our forums for some pointers on creating an integrated look and feel.

My query is for Articulate Presenter 5.2 [Next/previous buttons]

Can I disable previous button for first slide and next button for the last slide?

I am also needing to disable the Next and Previous buttons. Is this possible through the API? I need to be able to stop a viewer from continuing until they interact with my slide. Thanks,
Ian

I’m using my SDK to add a formatted notes tab and a custom toolbar item to my project, but I’m running into a few snags. If both items use the art_plugins.xml file, how can I use this to have BOTH items in my player? Or do I have to choose just one? Thanks.

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Hi all,

I’m a Flash Developer, currently working on a project which requires a certain Articulate behaviour, which must break apart the built in Articulate’s structure.

So far, I’ve accomplished quite a bit of customizing. I can start the player on ‘mode 3′, have my own custom menu bar appear, have a flash-made contents menu populated using artAPI methods, but it’s not quite what I have in mind, nor need.

Overall, I basically need to:

1. Start in mode 3
2. Have my own flash-made menu bar appear (3 buttons: contents, back, next).
3. When user clicks on ‘contents’, it should switch to mode 1.
4. When viewing presentation in mode 1, the usual Articulate’s bottom nav bar should NOT appear, instead I should still have my own flash-made menu bar.
5. When “contents” menu is clicked again, it should switch back to mode 3.

Before you all start jumping in with ideas, please note that so far I’ve been able to accomplish point 1,2 and 3. Stuck on 4.

Now, any ideas?

Thanks,

Seb.

we develop an educational software (VB application), than read external flash slides and mp3 narration files using a xml format. Is it possible to convert our project to articulate project using the SDK.

Is it possible to modify the FLA to get different links for each slide.