Project preferences

Project preferences overview

Use the Project preferences to define essential metadata and playback settings for your eLearning project. This includes author and company details, copyright information, and project naming conventions to ensure proper attribution and discoverability. You can also configure how the project behaves during playback—such as enabling autoplay, restricting keyboard tabbing, and customizing end-of-project actions like looping, closing, or launching external content. Additionally, set a project expiry date and specify the screen reader language to enhance accessibility. These preferences help streamline publishing workflows and deliver a consistent user experience across devices and platforms.

INFORMATION

• Author: Name of the author or authors of the project.
• Company: Name of the company or organization responsible for the content in the document.
• Email: If appropriate, provide the email address for the company or your customer service department.
• Website: Website address of the company.
• Copyright: Copyright information for your project.
• Project Name: A distinct and descriptive name for your project.
• Description: Short description of the contents of the project.

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Settings

• Restrict keyboard tabbing to slide: With this option selected, only objects that have been added to the slide itself are subject to keyboard tab actions.
  
• Autoplay: If you select this option, the project plays automatically when you preview or publish the project.
• Hide selection rectangle for slide items: Select this option if you don't want a focus indicator to display around an object if you're tabbing through each object at runtime.

Project Start

Select the image you want to use as a cover for your project. The image appears when you preview or view the published project.

Project End

Select what the project needs to perform when it ends. The available options are:

• Loop Project: Continuously plays the project.

• Close Project: Closes the movie after it stops playing.

• Open URL or File: Opens the specified website in a web browser after the movie stops playing. To load a URL, type the full path to a website (for example, http://www.website.com). Select the inverted arrow icon next to the URL box to select the window to display the URL, then choose Current, New, Parent, or Top. To load a file, select the browse icon, browse to the file, select the file, and select Open.

• Execute JavaScript: Runs the specified JavaScript after the movie stops playing. Select Script Window and type the JavaScript code to execute. To reuse a script from a file, copy it onto the clipboard and paste it into the JavaScript window. Select the inverted arrow icon next to the Script_Window button to select the window in which to display the URL, then choose Current, New, Parent, or Top.

Project Expiry Date

• Expiry date for the project. Select Calendar to choose a date. In the adjacent text box, specify the message to display to users when the project expires.

Language

• Set the speech agent for the screen reader at a project level from the Language drop-down.