Microsoft 365 learning pathways: your customizable training solution to increase usage of Microsoft

Hello everyone,

Sharing learnings from a custom deployment. I had posted a while hoping to get custom assets to display in the Learning Pathways site, referring to .ASPX content created outside of SPO. I had created a "SPO-friendly" HTML5 output from a Help Authoring tool popular in tech comm. circles called https://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/features.html. 

I've been able to upload the content to the /SitePages/ folder using SharePoint Designer 2013. From there, I can display the "full" output as an 'Online Help' system with side nav/index/glossary/filters specified by conditional tagging etc. As well, I've been able to use the individual topics (.aspx pages) as custom assets when adding those to a playlist. Pretty neat, IMHO! Especially since it works, so wanted to share this with everyone as a workaround if you want to be able to display more features, styling, leverage single-sourcing and all that, which cannot be done natively in SPO but still display it in SPO.

Here's the contents as created by Robohelp in SPO /SitePages/

This is what a sample folder for a particular section looks like inside that output folder tree, noting all the .aspx pages created that I can use separately as assets (I will show that output later when used as a custom asset in a playlist):

This is what the full Online Help system (HTML5) looks like 'embedded' using the embed Web part within a page in the Learning Pathways site. It looks seamless within the page and allows the full navigation intended by the RoboHelp design you specify (side nav, top nav) since there's many options and you can specify if you want a glossary, index, and you can filter based on personas you specify for which you conditionally tag text in the authoring environment.

Now, imagine one of the .aspx pages (friday.aspx, for example) being used as an individual asset while preserving all the styling/formatting you specified in the Adobe Robohelp authoring environment. It will display as is, without any formatting needed within SPO.

So, you can leverage either display option to create many hybrid support resources on one SPO learning pathways site, building custom playlists using assets with way more display functionality than is possible within SPO and/or display entire help systems with full nav capabilities, leveraging the full feature set of Adobe Robohelp (single sourcing, conditional tagging etc.)

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Karthik Jediseh

Senior Manager of Learning and Development

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