[Solved] Flash as billboard

[Solved] Flash as billboard

Thursday 27 August 2009 9:30:37 am - 7 replies

Modified on Monday 31 August 2009 5:32:05 am by Catherine Mollet @work

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André R.

Thursday 27 August 2009 9:51:57 am

What version are you on? there was some issue with flash 10 some time ago, so if you can't see the flash anywhere, and your on a old (pre 4.0.2) version, then update.

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Catherine Mollet @work

Monday 31 August 2009 3:04:00 am

Hi André,
I'm using version 4.1.3.
I can see the flash when I'm embedding it in an article, but I can't see it when it's embedded as a billboard.
One thing I can't explain is that the code of the flash in billboard appears when I'm looking for page source but not in the page itself. I tried with several browsers to prevent a "adblock like" problem. Same every time.

André R.

Monday 31 August 2009 3:25:11 am

Try replacing the content of billboard/flash.tpl with the content from embed/flash.tpl
(Backup the file you change first)

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Catherine Mollet @work

Monday 31 August 2009 4:40:33 am

Thank you for the suggestion, but ... it doesn't works. Still can't see the Flash as the code is there.

André R.

Monday 31 August 2009 4:45:59 am

Then I don't know, anyone else?

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Jeremy B.

Monday 31 August 2009 5:00:51 am

Hi Catherine,

If I were you I would :

- Check the anonymous policy for content / read
- Check if I could display the "/.../index.swf" url in the browser
- Try to force the "value" and the "movie" params of the embeded object with an absolute url like "http://localhost/ezp/index.swf"
- Check if the flash is really working. Does it have access to necessary data to run (if any) ? You can check that with a soft like firebug
- Try to use swfobject to embed the flash (who knows...)

Hope this helps

Catherine Mollet @work

Monday 31 August 2009 5:18:05 am

Hi André and Jeremy,
Thanks a lot for your answers. Sorry for the inconvenience, but André's solution was the good one. In all my attempts, I uploaded another time the banner and then, width and height loosed their values and became automatically set to 0. I didn't noticed that.
But with the original code of billboard/flash.tpl, no way. I had to replace it with the content of embed/flash.tpl. If not, even with good width and height values, it doesn't show.
Thanks again.

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