Various glitches occurring in Storyline - Does anyone encounter these issues?
Hi everyone,
I've been working in eLearning for over 15 years. I've used Director, Macromedia, Adobe Flash, iSpring, Captivate, Rise, Storyline, Lectora....all of them. They all have some pros and cons, and some are easier to use than others, as I'm sure you are all well aware of.
The industry of client base seems to regard Storyline 360 as the "leader" authoring tool. This past year, I've been using Storyline more than any other authoring tool, due to client requirements.
I will admit that Storyline has come a long way from their 1.0 version. But, I find myself perplexed/frustrated at how many random glitches still exist in this authoring tool.
Also, will we ever get a 64 bit version? For heavier projects, sometimes you encounter the dreaded STORYLINE LAG - too many layers on one slide? Everything gets a delayed response time and reduces your efficiency to a crawl.
We just completed a project of 11 45-60 minute modules in 7 months, and these are some of the bugs that kept coming up. I'm curious to know if any of you experience the same issues, or anything similar. Maybe we're just pushing Storyline too far?
If no one else experiences these glitches, maybe we need to tone down our work. These issues just eat away at our development time and puts extra stress on QA checklists.
- Bullets in transcript? No problem with the white player
- Black player? You must select and turn all bullets white or they do not all appear - but the font is automatically white
- 32 bit version seems to cap out on memory sometimes, and, in heavier projects, sometimes pressing UNDO will...undo more than 1 thing. Guess what changed? Who knows?
- Copying elements from 1 storyline slide to another will sometimes increase the stroke size. Sometimes, in buttons, only some states will grow their strokes randomly, making this issue inconsistent
- Sometimes regular button states don't trigger normally their visited state unless your mouse hovers off and goes back on - have to force changing states on some buttons, but not all.
- Updating quiz question text in either form view or design view will sometimes not update all states and you have to manually check them all to make sure
- Alignment issues. Depending on your resolution, it is difficult to pixel perfect align shapes together. It can be fine on some monitors, and look off on others. This causes an extra loop of client feedback where they point out things are not aligned for their monitors, but they are for ours. We guess, nudge things, republish, until it looks off for us, but good for them
- Aligning elements together. Have a stroke on a separate layer? Try to align it to its image, it is very difficult to ensure alignment across multiple shapes on multiple layers
- Copy pasting grouped objects, from one slide or layer to another, some items in the group will move just slightly so they'll look unaligned across layers
- sometimes moving or copying items in the timeline causes the timeline to double (and if you do it to multiple objects at the same time, the timeline that was 20 seconds can increase to 800 seconds, which you then have to adjust manually)
Hi everyone!
I'm happy to share that today we just shipped 64-bit Storyline 360!
To use 64-bit Storyline 360, make sure to update your Articulate 360 desktop app, then click the Install button next to the Storyline 360 app with the 64-bit and beta labels. The Install button will change to an Open button when the installation is complete.
Since this version is in beta, we'd love for you to test it out and share your feedback and experience with us by replying to this discussion.