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Hello Dirk, I am trying to change the authoring settings, for example auto merge, on the Producer. However, it doesn’t allow me to edit. All the settings are closed to change. Do you have any idea about that?
Thanks in advanced.
You need to Start Editing on the relevant Adaptable Resource that contains that setting (e.g. Authoring Settings for Auto Merge), and you need Admin authorization to be able to do that.
Hello Dirk, I have an admin authorization in the system. When I want to edit the resources or authoring setting on the Prodcuer, I am still not able to do that. I am trying to edit all the objects of resources, but system result was that object is not available for editing.
Just because you have the role “Administrator” assigned to you doesn’t necessarily mean that you have the correct permissions. Go into Manager > Permissions, find yourself, and check the “Assigned Permissions” – you should have the “Resources: Edit” permission. Then make sure you check out the correct Adaptable Resource – if in doubt, select “Adaptable Resources” then select Show tree Operations > Start Editing All Objects. (Just don’t forget to Finish Editing on them all when you are done.) If you still can’t edit, then make sure you are connected, and that no-one else has the resource checked out (you can check this in Manager).
Hi Dirk,
How are you working from a licensing point of view? I was looking into the licensing model for a possibility to have a system for demo purposes but it does not seem that there is a affordable licensing option which considers this path.
Do you have any insights about this?
Best regards
Leopold
Replying privately.
Hi Dirk,
I have the same question as Leopold. Can you please share your insight with me as well.
Kind Regards
Rose
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Hello! In Enable Now you have a dialog box for the publishing rules. You can choose the Type SuccessFactors Learning in the basic properties. Is this the way to publish directly in the LMS from ENow? And where does the file end up?
Claude: Unfortunately not at the moment. In fact publishing to SuccessFactors seems to be more complicated than it needs to be, anyway. I have put in a Customer Improvement Request to make the integration between SEN and SF Learning much easier – it is ‘under consideration’ but I don’t know if/when it will get implemented. In the meantime, SAP note 2902368 contains the most useful information, but I think you need an S* ID to get to it. HTH, Dirk
Hello Dirk,
I read the article – defining text styles, however I cannot manage to import a text style into the producer. The style exists in my computer since I downloaded it and added it to my local fonts but although it is visualized in word, I could not use it in producer because in the family of fonts it does not appear to be select as default style. I would like to know how I can import fonts to the producer
You are trying to IMPORT a FONT into SAP Enable Now? No, it doesn’t work like that. SAP Enable Now provides access (via the Text Editor, Text Styles, or anywhere else) to all of the fonts that are on your PC. If it is on your PC you should see it in SAP Enable Now (it may be limited to TrueType fonts). However, it is dangerous for you as an Author to use non-standard fonts (especially in a Style definition) unless you can absolutely guarantee that all users will also have that font installed (on the PC they will access your content from). Otherwise, there is no guarantee the content will display correctly (or at all). You can mitigate this to some extent by specifying a sequence of fonts, as I mention in the article, but again, it is probably best to stick to common fonts.
Can the capacity of resources to be published in the executable type be expanded? Since the publication stops between 160 and 190 resources preventing the presentation of projects greater than 800 resources
By “Resources” you mean actual resources, or just content objects? My Resources group contains 286 resources; I don’t know how you would get to > 800? That said, I did a test on trying to publish around 2,000 simulation projects (4000+ objects) as an Executable, and sure enough at around 850 objects in, it bombs out. However, the error message says “File too large”; nothing about the number of objects (or resources) being too high. Now, I don’t know if this is a Windows message or an SAP Enable Now message, but I am not aware of a setting in SAP Enable Now that would set a limit on the size of a file, whereas I know Windows sets a limit on .exe files of 4GB, so it may be that. Run some selective publishes and see how close to 4GB you can get before it bombs out. If indeed it is that, you are out of luck. Maybe you could publish a suite of smaller .exe’s?
In that case, what operating system could work to make executable of more than 4 gb?
Example MacOS or LInux
Answered on the SAP Enable Now Community page (sapenablenow.com).
How can I get Desktop Assistant to display the correct training material for a web site? I have training material for web site A and web site B. I want only training material for web site A to be available in Desktop Assistant when the user is accessing web site A, and only training material for web site B to be available in Desktop Assistant when the user is accessing web site B.
Well, it should do it automatically, but this relies on the URL being captured correctly. Go into your Guided Tour and select any Screen. Then check the Key property (in the Key category). In that, you should see an entry that looks something like: PageAtt type=”url” value=”https://{your website URL}”
If you don’t see this (and see “INVALID URL” or something) then this means the URL wasn’t being captured correctly during recording. In this case, check the profile being used, and make sure JavaScript is enabled (and not blocked by anything). Oh, and also make sure you have the Enablement Assistant plug-in installed/active). You may be able to fix any incorrect URLs via Tools > Context Administration > Replace Page Key Attributes, but I haven’t tried.
I am presenting using MS Teams our enable now-generated web portal. I am projecting my second monitor, but when I open simulation it opens on my original laptop’s screen. Is there a means to “define” or default on which screen a simulation opens?
Where are you launching the simulation from? I find that it always opens a new tab in my browser, wherever that is open (and if it is not open it will open it on whatever screen it was last on). Either way, can’t you just drag it onto the required screen?
But no, there’s no option i am aware of To force it to open on a specific screen (as there is in, say, PowerPoint).
Hi Dirk,
Once a simulation starts (in both demo and exercise formats), once the screen loads, it cannot be moved…
I have since, though, had success if I have the web browser opened on the display screen I want the simulation to open on… So, if I am projecting my external monitor, I need to have my browser open on that screen.
Bill
Bill: Thanks for the feedback. This seems to be standard Windows functionality: It will open the browser “wherever it was last”. So as you note, if you have the browser open on your Primary Monitor that is where the launched content will be displayed. You should also find that you don’t NEED to have the browser pre-opened, if it was last closed from your Primary Monitor.
Hi, There are certain recordings that are created as a part of my project to make understand end user ,on how to work with SAP and create objects as a part of it daily needs. so, when i launch my desktop assistant and go to the respective t-code, the simulation related to it is not showing up. It says no information available.
can I please get some assistance for this?
So, there’s a few things that need to happen, and I’m not sure what you have done so far, so forgive me if I cover some of the basics you already know.
1. You have a Simulation Project that was recorded for the relevant Tcode. Did you convert this into a Desktop Assistant Guided Tour, or are you using it as-is?
2. In either case, make sure the context has been captured correctly? You should see the Context Information property at the project level, and also in the PageKey property for the Screens within the project.
3. Make sure that the Exclude from Desktop Assistant checkbox isn’t selected for the Screen macros (I typically only select it for the SESSION_MANAGER screens).
4. Make sure the simulation project (or Desktop Assistant Guided Tour) is contained within the Desktop Assistant Group (Make sure this Group has the Desktop Assistant Subtype)
5. When you generate the Desktop Assistant, on the Desktop Assistant Configuration dialog box you should see the Simulation listed, and its various modes and/or the Guided Tour (depending on what you want to include). Make sure the relevant object types are selected.
6. If you click the Play Desktop Assistant button from within the Producer, and then go to the transaction, does the DA start OK and show the simulation/GT? If not, you are missing context (check the steps above again).
7. If the DA works when launched from Producer, but not when you launch it via the .dnt or .inav file, then it may be a caching issue
Let me know if any of that helps.
Hi Dirk
Is there any option to change the Mode_Suffix default value when downloading user guides which have been generated via a recording. By default when a user downloads the document the name of the document is hand_on or work instruction.
Regards
Sharat
Not directly, no. The filename of the document is actually taken from the technical Name of the Document Type. There is a Consultant Script that can change the document name to be the same as the Simulation name, but I think by default it just changes the name the document is listed by, and I’ve had a few problems trying to customize it to change the filename as well.
Hi! As far as I understand the authorization features in SEN, it is not possible to restrict course to specific roles? I can create a course and assign it to a specific role, however this does not mean that a user with another role cannot access the content (f.i. when on shares the start link).
What would be your advice in order to restrict specific content to groups of persons (ideally without having multiple Work Areas)?
Mariska:
In short, no it is not possible. If you are using the Manager to track courses you can assign the course to a specific (SAP Enable Now) role and it will only appear in the Learner View for users with that role, but like you note, anyone with the start link URL would still be able to open it. You CAN control access at the Workarea level, but that means having the ‘restricted’ courses in their own Workarea – and that is really only worth doing if you have a single set of courses all restricted to the same set of users. If those ‘restricted’ users also need to access the ‘standard’ courses, you could BASE the ‘restricted Workarea’ on the ‘unrestricted Workarea’ and they would also see all of the underlying ‘unrestricted’ content through their (‘restricted’) Trainer (and ‘unrestricted users’ would not), but again, that’s only feasible for a single set of courses / users. As soon as you have a multiplicity of course/user combinations it becomes almost impossible to do.
HTH, Dirk
Hi Dirk,
Thank you very much for your time and answer