# 66
Testing, Testing, 1-2-3 Broken links are undoubt-edly one of digital life’s greatest irritations. Make sure that doesn’t happen in your Presenter publications.
Once you’ve added your links, save the presentation, and then publish it (learn how in #69, “Previewing and Publishing”). When the pres-entation displays in your Web browser, Acrobat 9, or Adobe Reader 9, start test-ing links. Fortunately, if there are broken links, it’s simple to repair them. If you see a message that starts “Can-not find ‘file://c:\Documents and Settings…\resources\
[filename],’” open the path in Internet Explorer and look for your missing file. Copy or move the file into the sub-folder. Republish and try again.
C h a p t e r N i N e Building Content with Adobe Presenter
Figure 66b View the list of attached content from the playbar.
Rather than attaching files, you can add links to online resources or Connect Pro Server storage locations. Adobe Presenter treats hyperlinks attached to text on slides as a type of attachment. For example, you could create a link from text on a slide to a spreadsheet, following these steps:
1. Display the slide where you want to add the link, and select the link text.
2. Right-click and choose Hyperlink from the shortcut menu to open the Insert Hyperlink dialog.
3. Specify the settings for the hyperlink, including the file location, a tooltip, and so on. Click OK to close the dialog and return to the slide.
4. The text now shows a hyperlink, as well as a tooltip, if you specified one in the dialog (Figure 66c). Clicking the link opens the hyperlinked document in another window.
Figure 66c Insert a hyperlink to content stored elsewhere on your system or server.
In case of link issues, be sure to read the sidebar “Testing, Testing, 1-2-3.”
Linking by Hand Links from a presentation to files need to be config-ured by hand due to the way PowerPoint manages links. It takes a few minutes, but it’s worth it. Follow these steps:
1. Open the folder where you have stored the PPT or PPTX file, and create and name a subfolder. The name doesn’t matter—I usually call it “Links” (for obvious reasons!).
2. Move or copy the files you intend to link into the Links folder.
3. In PowerPoint, create the links to the files from the presentation slides.
4. Publish the presentation on your computer.
5. Locate and open the published project folder;
copy your Links subfolder into the Data\ Resources subfolder.
Does that seem like too much work? You can use attachments instead of links.
Attached files are included as part of the project’s resources when you publish the project.
Don’t Let IE Give You the Presentation Runaround
Internet Explorer may not allow attachments to presentations to display prop-erly when you publish them locally—that is, to a zip file or a CD-formatted file, for two reasons:
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Security settings in Internet Explorer prevent an Internet page from access-ing and runnaccess-ing files on a local system. While this feature is terrific for pro-tecting your system, it adds a touch of aggravation to your development process.•
An Adobe Presenter publication runs locally in your Flash Player, and Inter-net Explorer deems file downloads via Flash Player as unsafe. Another touch of aggravation.What to do? Here are some options. The best choice depends on how you need to use the content:
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Create PDF output (the simplest solution—read about it in #69).•
Store the attached files on a Web server or network drive and make hyperlinks in PowerPoint rather than via Adobe Presenter.•
Publish the presentation to an online LMS storage repository, like Connect Pro Server.175
#66: Including Attachments
Don’t Let IE Give You the Presentation Runaround
Internet Explorer may not allow attachments to presentations to display prop-erly when you publish them locally—that is, to a zip file or a CD-formatted file, for two reasons:
•
Security settings in Internet Explorer prevent an Internet page from access-ing and runnaccess-ing files on a local system. While this feature is terrific for pro-tecting your system, it adds a touch of aggravation to your development process.•
An Adobe Presenter publication runs locally in your Flash Player, and Inter-net Explorer deems file downloads via Flash Player as unsafe. Another touch of aggravation.What to do? Here are some options. The best choice depends on how you need to use the content:
•
Create PDF output (the simplest solution—read about it in #69).•
Store the attached files on a Web server or network drive and make hyperlinks in PowerPoint rather than via Adobe Presenter.•
Publish the presentation to an online LMS storage repository, like Connect Pro Server.C h a p t e r N i N e Building Content with Adobe Presenter
Use the Quiz Manager to—you guessed it—manage quizzes added to a Presenter publication. You can add one or more quizzes, each having numerous questions, all without writing a single line of JavaScript.
The structure of a quiz is complex, and it’s based on a hierarchy of rela-tionships and values that make up a learning management system (LMS).
Whether you are writing content for a formal e-learning experience or gathering opinions from fellow garden club members, the Quiz Manager takes care of the relationships for you invisibly. All you have to do is select the question types, their content, and their outcomes.
Before you dive into quiz construction, take a few minutes to process some terms and concepts key to using the Quiz Manager effectively:
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Quiz boundary. The Quiz Manager encases all the slides in a quiz within an invisible boundary. For example, the quiz shown in Figure 67 includes five slides in the quiz, although there are only three questions—the quiz boundaries include the instruction slide and the thank-you slide.Question
Response Response
Quiz Quiz boundary
Figure 67 The Quiz Manager controls several aspects of a quiz presentation.