Export Captivate Project to Training Force
Our LMS is Training Force. Apparently, as copied below, when
I publish a Captivate project in a SCORM compliant format, I'm
getting an error caused by a "page in the package." I'd appreciate
any thoughts or suggestions on how to move forward.
Thanks! Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Coleman
It is a page in the package causing the error. So we
recommend manually fixing the page and/or notifying the course
creation software provider of the issue.
The issue is this section of code on
EscrowPrdctVbls_custom.htm.
document.write('<script language=\"VBScript\"\>\n');
document.write('On Error Resume Next\n');
document.write('Sub Captivate_FSCommand(ByVal command, ByVal
args)\n');
document.write('Call Captivate_DoFSCommand(command,
args)\n');
document.write('End Sub\n');
document.write('</script\>\n');
The problem arises when the browser reads the page to
determine what needs to be processed. Since the script tags are
contained in other script tags, the rendering of the page throws an
error. To alleviate the issue, the script tags need to be broken up
more or potentially encoded.
An example for breaking it up would be:
document.write('<scri");
document.write("pt language=\"VBScript\"\>\n');
document.write('On Error Resume Next\n');
document.write('Sub Captivate_FSCommand(ByVal command, ByVal
args)\n');
document.write('Call Captivate_DoFSCommand(command,
args)\n');
document.write('End Sub\n');
document.write('</scri")
document.write("pt\>\n');
Follow-up....
Are there any "tricks" to exporting to a SCORM format?
Something like no spaces, or this field needs to remain blank? This
LMS accepts content published from Flash, but not Captivate, at
least how I'm publishing it.
Thanks.
Coleman
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