Mass Publish Captivate Projects

This may sound crazy, but I am looking for a way to mass publish captivate files.
I am looking for something along the lines of:
     •Some menu option I wasn’t able to find
     •Command line interface
     •Magic
I have over 350 captivate projects that need to be exported to both Flash and SCORM. Thanks to a series of unfortunate events, my teams past 7 months of Captivate 4 work has recently been re-exported with Captivate 5 just in time for Flash Player 10.1.102.64 to render them unplayable.
I have waited for an update of Flash Player, but our go live date is approaching fast and I can’t just wait on hopes any longer. This leaves me with installing the manual Captivate 5 hotfix and re-re-reporting 371 projects… twice; once in Flash and another in SCORM.
Any suggestions anyone may have would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Carlos

Hi Harsh,
You can mass upload Projects by using the standard Project Template available, just add another Field "GENERATE_DOCUMENT_ID" in the template and set it too TRUE. It will generate the new UNIQUE_DOC_NAME for the new project which you are creating via the Workbook.
Sample workbook sent to you mail id mentioned above.
Hope it helps!!
Best,
Kushagra A

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