Publish File Property List

The sppub.ini file contains metadata for a course installed for use with Skillport. This file contains additional data on window size parameters and required metadata additions that facilitate converting and loading content into Skillport. The properties in the Publish file overwrite similar properties in other content type files. To create the metadata to be stored in the sppub.ini file, developers manually create a sppub.ini file with a text program (for example, Notepad) prior to submitting the course for validation and packaging. Some of the information stored in the file is displayed on the Skillport content summary page after the content is converted and packaged.

Property Name Description

description

This is an optional property. Enter a description of the course, which is displayed on the content summary page in Skillport.

vendor

This is an optional property. Enter the name of the development company (vendor) responsible for creating the course.

prerequisites

This is an optional property. List any prerequisites a learner will need to review or complete prior to accessing the course. This field is displayed on the content summary page in Skillport.

target audience

This is an optional property. Enter a description of the target audience of the content, which is displayed on the content summary page in Skillport.

course duration

This is an optional property. Enter the approximate number of minutes it will require a learner to complete the course, which is displayed on the content summary page in Skillport. This property only accepts numerical values and they must be the number of minutes, e.g. 120.

language

This is a mandatory property. Enter the language of the course. Use the following valid codes to identify course language:

  • Dutch (nl)
  • English-US (enUS)
  • English-UK (enUK)
  • French-Canadian (frCA)
  • French (fr)
  • German (de)
  • Greek (el)
  • Italian (it)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Portuguese Brazilian (ptBR)
  • Spanish-Castilian (esES)
  • Spanish-Latin America (esDO)
  • Turkish (tr)
  • Russian (ru)
  • Korean (ko)
  • Chinese Mandarin (zh)
  • Chinese Cantonese (zhyue)
  • Chinese Traditional (zhtw)
  • Japanese (ja)

content version

This is a mandatory property. Enter the version number of the content in the format major. minor (for example, 1.4).

assessment unit IDs

This is an optional property. The assessment unit IDs is a comma-delimited list of unit IDs that contain assessments or are assessments. For AICC content the unit IDs can be found in the interchange files? and are specified as the identifier. This value must be entered in the publish file manually.

zero assessment units

This is an optional property. Enter:

  • yes: There are no assessments in the course
  • no (default): There are assessments in the course

This value must be entered manually.

window height

This is an optional property where the height of the window displaying the content is determined. Otherwise, a default value is used.

window width

This is an optional property where the width of the window displaying the content is determined. Otherwise, a default value is used.

window toolbar

This is an optional property. Enter:

  • yes: The window should have a toolbar.
  • no (default): The window should not have a toolbar.

window resizable

This is an optional property. Enter:

  • yes: The window should be resizable.
  • no (default): The window should not be resizable.

window scrollbars

This is an optional property. Enter:

  • yes: The window should have scrollbars.
  • no (default): The window should not have scrollbars.

window left

This is an optional property where the location of the window displaying the content is determined by its placement to the left side of the screen. Otherwise, a default value is used.

window top

This is an optional property where the location of the window displaying the content is determined by its location to the top of the screen. Otherwise, a default value is used.

metadata directory

This is an optional property. Enter a relative path to the metadata folder from the course folder. The default is the directory in which the publish file resides (same as a value of ".").

company code

This is a mandatory property and must contain your unique company code issued to you by Skillsoft. This is used to create a unique course ID.

course code

This is an optionalproperty and must contain your unique course code, each course you create must have a unique course code. This is used to create a unique course ID.

enable download

This is an optional property. Enter:

  • yes (default): to switch on the ability to download this course and play it offline.
  • no: to switch off the ability to download this course and play it offline.

short description

This is an optional property where you can enter a shorter description than the standard description that exists for your content. This is useful if the standard description is long as the player has more severe size restrictions then the summary page.

search keywords

This is an optional property. If this is set, enter the keywords to search as a comma delimited string.

course objective

This is an optional property. Enter your course objectives using HTML list tags '<li>', but do not enter an opening or closing HTML list tag. For example, course

objective=identify major components<li>describe the paper path</li><li>perform selected replacements and adjustments.

smartphone

This is an optional property. Enter:

  • yes:to indicate content can be accessed from a smartphone.
  • no: to indicate content cannot be accessed from a smartphone.
  • If the smartphone property is set to yes, the tablet property cannot be set to no, since that is an invalid configuration in Publisher.

tablet

This is an optional property. Enter:

  • yes:to indicate content can be accessed from a tablet.
  • no:to indicate content cannot be accessed from a tablet.

 

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