Publish an InDesign file as a SCORM package

What is the fastest/easiest way to take an InDesign file and publish it as a SCORM package that can be loaded to our LMS as a reference book? I don't have/need interactions - I just want the LMS to track which users opened/viewed the file. I need a VERY simple SCORM package. This seems like it ought to be easy.
Laura

I am sorry if you took offense at my response. I tend to assume that people who post questions have already researched the forum and failed to find the answer they needed - I know I do.
The point of my response was simply that the post you referenced did not actually answer the question, which makes it less than useful.
Basics of how SCORM "works":
You do create the content. The content can be created in a number of programs and formats. You then "wrap" that content into a SCORM package (which is really just a sort of special .ZIP file w/ some components that are read and and processed by an LMS) and upload it.
Publishing to SCORM from Captivate or Presenter is easy because you just tell it to do so and you can choose the various relevant options (what SCORM "things" to measure / check, which version of SCORM to use etc....) I would have expected the same to be true of InDesign, but apparently it's not. Since there is no one-click solution, I need to know the best path to take the content from InDesign toSCORM. I can imagine that meaning publishing to PDF or HTML and then moving to SCORM. I cannot imagine (especially in light of the other thread you referenced) that I am the first, much less the only, person looking for this solution. Someone out there must know the best way to do this.
As a note, the files I need to make SCORM compliant are rather lengthy and graphic-intensive, so just publishing to PDF and then loading those the the web (even using something like the SCORM packaging utility in the eLearning suite) is not really an option. I need a small enough file / package that it will be a good end-user experience (high enough resolution for the images to be legible but small enough file size to prevent long wait times while items load).
Thanks,
Laura

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