What is the character limit for SCORM files

[heidirobinson]

Hi - I'm wondering if anyone knows what the character limit is for file names within a SCORM zip folder. I can find out that there is a limit, but nowehere seems to say what the limit is?!

[SEGordon]

Heidi,

The Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL) provides detailed and advanced information on SCORM and AICC. It also contains templates, detailed descriptions, technical requirements and downloadable test suits for content. The link for their site is Advanced Distributive Learning Initiative (https://adlnet.gov/). It is a very handy site for any version of SCORM that you may be working with.

[Flynn]

Hi Heidi we are having the exact same problem and are under the 255-character limit as well. Ironically the SCORM file we are uploading was uploaded to the server in 2022 with no problems. It is only recently we have been having this issue. We have a fault logged with SAP but have yet to get an answer.

[Flynn]

Would love to hear if you found what the issue was?

[heidirobinson]

Hi Flynn, I never actually got to the bottom of it in the end. It was a different department in my organisation that came to me with the issue, as the error was focussing on one filename in particular (and this was happening across a few different SCORM files, and when you opened the folder that the files were in, the name was noticeably longer than anything else in there). There were no special character or spaces and when i put the filepath into excel, the count was much less than 255. I advised the team to go back to the vendor that created the content and ask them to reduce the name down or provide me with all the info that SAP will want when creating a ticket, and they didn't come back to me. I guess they sorted it out themselves in the end. I would be interested to find out what SAP say though. It always frustrated me that I didn't get to resolve this one

[ChrisStiles · Accepted solution]

The maximum characters is 255 characters, which includes the launch prefix URL, the path/folder structure on the iContent server, and filename+extension.

[Flynn · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris we are having the same problem and are under the 255-character limit as well(211 caractes). Ironically the SCORM file we are uploading was uploaded to the server in 2022 with no problems. It is only recently that we have been having this issue. We have a fault logged with SAP but have yet to get an answer.

[ChrisStiles · Accepted solution]

flynns - Does your 211 character count include the launch prefix URL for iContent? Most of the launch prefixes use more that 70 characters. Also, is it possible teh issue in your case could be something other than filename length? We recently introduced a new requirement where the zipped scorm package may not contain nested zip files.