You can configure the following Player options that are in effect whenever you preview the Player modes from the Developer. This allows you to preview topics directly from the Developer in a Player environment that emulates what your users experience when they play your content from their Player environment. These options are also used as the defaults when you publish a Player package for the first time; however, you can also override these options from the Publishing Wizard.
Convert screenshots to 256 colors: Reduces the number of colors used in the screenshots, which therefore reduces the size of the published topics and improves the playback speed.
Include HTML Web Site: You can choose to include the HTML Web Site format when you publish to the Player. The HTML format is contained in a folder called html within the PlayerPackage folder. If this folder is present, the HTML Web Site format launches if a user has a browser that is not supported by the Player.
If you decide to include the HTML Web Site, you can include or omit the detailed action steps. Deselecting the Include Details Actions Steps in HTML Web Site option omits the Step # links that launch the graphic and details for each step in the HTML Web Site. Note that deselecting this option also omits links to Alternative Actions, Alternative Paths, and Decision Frames, as those links appear on the details page.
Create zip file from published Player package: You can create a zip file of the Player package in the published content folder. The zip file is created at the same level as the PlayerPackage folder. This option is helpful if you want to import the content into an LMS.
Create Test It! mode Player: This option adds Test It! mode to the Player. Test It! mode is used to guide a tester through a test case and record the steps that are used to create a Test Document used in bug reporting. When Test It! mode is included, all topics are published, no matter what other modes are enabled.
Include Sound: This option allows you to publish with sound using 96 kbps AAC format. By default, sound is not set for publishing. Note: Sound is published using the .flv: High setting when using the Windows 2008 SP2 operating system.
Skin: This option allows you to select a customized Player skin that displays the Player customized to your organizations look and feel.
Format for Print It! mode: If you enable Print It! mode for topics using the Play Modes property, you can use this option to determine which document style is included when you publish formats that support Print It! mode. Choose "none" if you do not want to publish Print It! mode (even when this mode has been enabled for topics). By default, Job Aid, System Process and Test Document are the only options for Print It! mode. However, the Training Guide and Instructor Guide can appear as choices by editing the Style.xml file for the appropriate publishing project document. If you want a publishing style to appear as a choice, modify the PrintItStyle Setting of the Style.xml file to have a value of 1.
Marquee color: Set the color for the action area (or highlight) that appears in See It!, Try It! and Do It! modes.
Play audio: You can set how audio plays on the Player. The All available sound option (default) plays any available sound files during playback. The Keyboard and mouse clicks option plays only keyboard and mouse clicks sounds during playback in See It! mode. These sounds are 96kbps AAC files, delivered in the Audio folder of published content, that play automatically when keyboard and mouse clicks occur in See It! mode playback. The None option disables sound during playback. The user must have Flash 9.0 or greater installed to play sound in the Player.
Note: Sound is published using the .flv: High setting when using the Windows 2008 SP2 operating system.
See It! playback size: This option controls the default size of the See It! playback window. Select from one of the predefined screen sizes or type in the desired screen size. Default screen sizes include 800 x 600, 1024 x 768 (default), 1280 x 800, 1366 x 768, Half Screen (50% of user's screen resolution), Full Screen (as large as possible).
Note: The default size only applies until the window is resized. Once the window is resized, the new sized is used on the next launch of See It! mode.
Default play mode: This option controls the default mode launched when double clicking on a topic in the outline.
Applicable outline display: This option allows you to select how applicable content displays by default when the Player is launched with context sensitivity. If you select Applicable Outline, a filtered outline appears along with the Applicable option, to allow users to switch between the full outline and the filtered outline. If you select Applicable List, a flat list of applicable topics appears along with the Applicable option, to allow users to switch between the full list and the filtered list. If you select All, the full outline appears along with the Applicable option to allow users to switch between the full outline and the filtered outline.
Note: When the Applicable Outline view contains both SmartMatch and ExactMatch results, the ranking of the results is lost. SmartMatch ranking only displays with the Applicable List view.
It is important to understand the implications if you choose to change this publishing option. First, when you use the Outline List view for SmartMatch, there is no relevancy to the results. In other words, lower relevant results may appear above higher relevant results. Additionally, the load time for the table of contents in the Player may be negatively affected in SmartMatch because a higher number of results (maximum of 200) may be shown.
Show introduction text: This option controls whether the Introduction frame appears when a topic opens in the Player. Select this option to show the Introduction frame as the first frame during playback and deselect it to suppress the frame.
Enable users to change their Player preferences: If you enable this option, the Player includes a Preferences link that enables any user to change the settings. If you disable this option, the Preferences link does not appear in the Player.
Enable skipping in Try It! mode: Select this option to enable the user to advance to the next step in Try It! mode by pressing Enter instead of performing the action in the bubble.
Enable Direct Do It!: When a user launches Player content in a context-sensitive manner from a target or web application and only one topic is returned, the topic is automatically launched in Do It! mode when this option is enabled. Note that the topic must also be configured for Do It! mode using the Play modes property. You can close Direct Do It! and display the full TOC with the View Outline link on the Action menu.
Key combination for advancing in Do It! mode: Configure a key combination for advancing to the next step in Do It! mode.
Note: The Key combination to advance in Do It! mode does not work in Firefox or Internet Explorer 11 or later.