Yes, as far as I know this is expected behaviour. I've tried to do this too, but it only ever displays the link to the reusable object rather than the contents.

I seem to remember you can get things to work as you want if you make the URL javascript compatible (e.g. use something like http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/) and embed it as an iframe. You'd need to change the size to percentages rather than fixed dimensions - do this in the html source.

Regards,

Martin

On 1 December 2016 at 09:35, Andy Turner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

A quick question for anyone who uses Blackboard Reusable Objects.

 

I’ve created an HTML object in the Content Collection, and can successfully insert this into the text of a course content item:

when editing the Item, it looks like just a link, but on Submit it actually displays the full content of the HTML object in the Item text.

 

However this doesn’t seem to be working for modules – whether displayed on a course module page, or on a tab.

The link to the reusable object just displays as a link, which is not what I was after.

 

Is that expected behaviour, or have I missed a setting somewhere?

 

thanks

 

Andy

 

 

Andy Turner
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