Can i capture URL parameters?

ActivePresenter Support Questions
1

Does ActivePresenter support capturing URL parameters?

2

Hi,

Do you mean that getting parameters passed to the HTML5 player via the URL, such as test.html?param1=value1&param2=value2 ?

Regards

3

Yes, that would be awesome. Is there a guide to achieving this so that I can access these URL parameters as variables in ActivePresenter?

4

ActivePresenter supports some parameters (I use tutorial mode - tutorial.html as samples):

  • Link to a specific slide: tutorial.html?slide=N, where N is the slide index (starting from 1)
  • Link to a specific time in a slide: tutorial.html?slide=N&slidetime=AhBmCs, where N is the slide index and slidetime is in the time starting from the beginning of that slide.
    Example: tutorial.html?slide=2&slidetime=2m30s will link to slide 2, starting from 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
  • Link to a specific time (starting from the beginning of the presentation): tutorial.html?time=AhBmCs
    Example: tutorial.html?time=2m1s will link to 2 minutes and 1 second into the presentation.

For custom parameter, you need to use JavaScript. For example:

// url: ....tutorial.html?name=abc
// Note: this sample code doesn't work on IE browser
var url = new URL(location.href);
var name = url.searchParams.get('name');  // abc

Regards

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Is it possible to disable some of these default parameters?
I’m concerned about students skipping parts of the task.

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No, it’s not possible to disable these default parameters.
If students skip parts of the task this way, they will not gain any scores for those parts. So I think you don’t need to worry about that.
You can also consider using an LMS which usually doesn’t allowing students to change the url.

Regards