Generally i feel its best to disable flash within SmartEdit mode - as you will generally want editors to maintain the non-flash content using the CMS. By all means, enable Flash in preview and publishing modes...
One of the main problems ive found using Flash within the CMS is passing through XML content.. Linking your flash file is linked via a media placeholder messes with the BaseURL property. Cheers, Kim On May 2, 1:38 am, Christopher Sheldon <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure on your environment setup but I had the exact issue you are > describing. The strange thing is I knew my Flash in RedDot should be > working but within the CMS it never did. We ended up having to > disable RSA that was on the whole server and it magically fixed the > Flash display issue across everything. Our implementation uses JS for > detection and display of the Flash elements (otherwise left as static > HTML in the page) and we utilize a Flash file as a loader for our > other content within the system. So the same SWF is embedded into the > template and then passed the content URL from the system to display. > The URL is mapped to a 'safe' URL so that all the query string data in > SmartEdit does not break any additional paramerters that need to be > sent to the Flash file (like the content URL). Seems to work great in > the end, static content cooked into the page for non-flash users and > fancy stuff appears for the ... fancy users. > > On Apr 30, 6:42 am, ucfan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We have a home page that has a flash video on the page. When we > > preview the page in RedDot you can not get the video to play but when > > the page is published to the server everything plays just fine. Do I > > need to do something to my code to make it work in RedDot so that we > > can insure everything is ok before we publish this out to the server? > > > <div id="flash"> > > <embed src="<%med_FWIANovember1_SWF%>" width="594" > > height="142" play="true" loop="false" quality="high" > > pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi? > > P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" border="0"></embed> > > </div> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
