Importing Large UPK Files Into OLM
Posted by: Anne Saulnier in UPK, Oracle Learning Management on
Apr 17, 2009
If you've worked with the User Productivity Kit (UPK) and integrated voiceover, you know that the file size can become quite large. As a result, it takes a long time to import into Oracle Learning Management and can actually result in a failed import where the contents of the UPK SCORM-compliant zip file never actually unzips onto your content server.
There is a workaround that you can use to get this content to import quickly into OLM if you're able to get direct FTP access to your content server. You'll need to use an FTP program that supports Secure FTP (i.e., CoreFTP or CuteFTP), and you'll need to work with your technical team to get login credentials to your content server and to ensure that your FTP user will have permission to change / modify / write to directories that are created in OLM through the Administrator interface.
Once you're setup with access to directly place your UPK files onto the Content Server, here are the steps that I've found to work best:
- Unzip your published SCORM-compliant UPK files into a directory on your PC;
- Hit CTRL + A on your keyboard to select all of the files that you've unzipped (making sure that you're at the root level where the imsmanifest.xml file resides);
- Hold down the CTRL key and de-select the tpc folder;
- Re-zip only the selected files and folders into a new "slimmed down" zip;
- Go into OLM as an Administrator and import this slimmed down zip from your content tab - be sure to make note of the folder you create when importing so that you can find it in the next step;
- Log into the Content Server directly from your FTP program and navigate to the content directory to find the new folder that you created;
- Upload the tpc folder inside your newly created folder;
- Now all of your content will be properly hosted on your Content Server and you can continue to publish the Learning Object and assign it to the appropriate Offering in your Catalog as usual.
I actually got a shout out in Metalink for helping on this one! ;-)
(Doc ID: 735653.1)
