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May 30, 2024

Articulate Storyline 360: May 2024 Update Makes 64-Bit Storyline the Default

With the May 2024 Storyline 360 update (Build 3.88.32474.0), the 64-bit version of Storyline 360 is now the default.

According to Jesse Taber, engineering manager for Storyline 360, "Storyline has traditionally been a 32-bit application. The primary difference between 32-bit and 64-bit applications is the amount of system memory they can use. In Windows, 32-bit applications can access, at most, 4GB of memory, while 64-bit applications can access far more memory than any modern consumer-grade PC can accommodate."

Taber went on to state that "The primary benefit of targeting 64-bit processor architecture is the ability to use more system memory. When Storyline 360 opens a project file, it loads it all into memory. Very large projects, particularly those with many rich media assets, can experience issues opening, saving, and publishing in the 32-bit version of Storyline 360. Projects like this should be much more stable in Storyline 360 x64."

"Aside from memory usage, most authors will likely see performance on par with the 32-bit version of Storyline 360. While performance improvements were not a primary driver for creating Storyline 360 x64, we plan to invest more directly in performance improvements going forward," said Taber.

To install the update, start the Articulate 360 app, click the drop-down menu to the right of Storyline 360, and choose Install Update.

If the 64-bit version isn't working, you can easily restore access to the 32-bit version via the Articulate 360 preferences. Open the Articulate 360 desktop app, click the drop-down arrow in the upper right corner, and choose Preferences.

From the Legacy Access area, select Restore 32-bit Storyline 360 and then click the Save button.

May 16, 2024

Articulate Storyline 360: Cloud Backups

Back up. Seriously, back up!

Sorry, I mean backup… as in, back up your projects.

During my Articulate Storyline 360 training vILT classes, I stressed the importance of backup projects. While I love Storyline, projects can get corrupt like any other program. You'll breathe a bit easier if you have a recent project backup. The problem with backups is remembering to create them and/or ensuring the backup is on an external or network drive (it does not do you much good if your backup project is on your hard drive and that drive goes bad… say goodbye to your project and your backup).

Articulate Storyline 360 now offers you free cloud project backups.

To begin, Publish the project and select Review 360.

From the bottom of the Publish dialog box, select Upload project file to Review 360.

Click the Publish button to upload a backup copy of the project to the cloud.

Once the project has been published, click the View Project button.

You can download the cloud copy by selecting Current Version > Download Project File.

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November 14, 2023

Articulate Storyline 360: Instant placeholder text

You've been asked to create a Storyline slide. The images are ready, but the text is not. Instead of typing fake placeholder text, Storyline can do the heavy lifting for you.

Select the object and type =lorem() to add placeholder text to a slide object.

Press [enter], and Storyline will fill the object with lorem ipsum text.

Type =rand(), and Storyline will add actual words to the object.

Adding text between the parenthesis tells Storyline to add a specific number of paragraphs and lines. For instance, Type =rand(4,3), and Storyline will insert four paragraphs and three lines.

If you'd like to see this feature in action, check out this YouTube video.

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October 31, 2023

Articulate Storyline 360: Cloud Backup for Source Files

Articulate updated Storyline 360 earlier this month to include the ability to upload your project source files to the cloud. This feature allows members of your team to download your project files easily.

To upload your project to the cloud, choose File > Publish.

From the list of options at the left, choose Review 360.

From the Cloud Backup area, select Upload project file to Review 360.

Publish the project.

On the Publish Successful screen, click View Project.

At the left of the window, select the version you'd like to download from the Current Version drop-down menu.

Click the three dots and choose Download project file.

The project's source file is downloaded to the Downloads folder on your computer.

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February 8, 2023September 25, 2025

Articulate Storyline 360: Indexing Scenes

When I teach my vILT Articulate Storyline 360 classes, we immediately tackle scene creation. As the project grows and more scenes are added, students quickly realize that the scene numbers can get out of numeric order. For instance, scene 6 might end up becoming the starting scene and being listed first in Story View. Scene 4 might be the next scene, followed by scenes 3, 5, 1, and 2.

In the example below, notice that the second scene is numbered 5, and the third scene is numbered 4.

Screenshot of Storyline 360 interface displaying an organized scene structure with numbered scenes and sub-scenes.

I’ve never been bothered by scenes that are out of numeric order. However, this erratic numbering scheme might bother some Storyline developers. If so, the Index tool allows you to quickly renumber scenes.

In the image below, I’ve selected the fifth scene.

A screenshot of Articulate Storyline displaying a scene index with scenes numbered 5, 4, 3, and 2, showing thumbnails and connections between them.

I want the selected scene to be treated as the second scene by Storyline and assigned the number 2.

On the Home tab of the Ribbon, Scenes group, I clicked the Index tool drop-down menu and selected 2.

Screenshot of the Articulate Storyline 360 Ribbon menu highlighting the Index tool in the Slides group with options to renumber scenes.

Remember, just before this, I selected the second scene. By choosing 2 from the Index menu, I’m telling Storyline to change scene number 5 to scene number 2.

Here is the reindexed Story View. Reindexing does not negatively affect any slide-to-slide jumps compared to cutting and pasting scenes.

A visual representation of a project in Articulate Storyline showing scenes arranged in a branching format with scene numbers 2, 5, 4, and 3, highlighting how scenes can be renumbered.

Using the same approach, I quickly re-indexed the remaining scenes.

Storyline's Story View showing reindexed scenes with numbers 2 to 5, including 'Quiz,' 'Meerkats,' 'Aviary,' and 'Big Cats' with respective sub-scenes.

Check out this short video to see the Index feature in action.

January 7, 2019

ARTICULATE STORYLINE: Publish a Portion of a Project

When publishing a Storyline project, it’s often preferable to publish a small section of the project instead of the entire thing (a single slide for instance or an individual scene). Fortunately, Storyline 360 makes quick work of this task, if you know where to look.

Open Storyline’s Publish dialog box by either using the Publish tool on the Ribbon or choosing File > Publish.

From the Properties area of the Publish dialog box, click the link to the right of Publish to open another Publish dialog box.

From here you can elect to publish the entire project, a single scene, or from the A single slide drop-down menu, specify any slide from any scene within the project.

Click the OK button and then click the Publish button to publish the selection.

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