The Shorthand Story Launcher is available on all plans and allows you to embed a branded call-to-action button directly in your website.
First, your Shorthand story must be published outside your CMS (e.g. as a microsite, as most Shorthand stories are, or hosted by us via Shorthand Hosting)
On your site, the story launcher appears as a version of your story's title image overlaid with the title, subtitle and an 'Enter' button. When the reader clicks the button, on a desktop browser, the launcher seamlessly expands to fill the screen with the story, in the same window, and the URL of the page does not change. The story shows a 'Close' button, so when they have finished reading, the reader can click it to minimise the story and return to the page from which it was launched.
The launcher works using iframes, which aren't supported on mobile devices. To accommodate this, on mobile devices clicking the enter button takes the user to the story in a new window at its native URL.
To get the code used to add the launcher to your page, click the dropdown attached to the publish button in the editor, and then click promote your story. Enter the URL where the story has been hosted (eg, at mystories.shorthandstories.com/story - not the page you are launching it from on your site) and you will then see embed code available to copy and paste into your CMS.
You will need to publish the story from Shorthand first, e.g., to our servers or your own, depending on your subscription type.
NB: The security settings for both your main website (where you're embedding the story launcher) and your hosted page (where you're hosting the export files) must match for the launcher to work correctly. For example, if your main website sits at https:// then the page you're hosting the story at (via your server) must also sit at https://. If not then it will act as a standard link to the page where the story is hosted, rather than presenting it in the same window.