DW CS3, Templates & Flash paths

Question

Hello guys,
I guess that everybody knows but I didn't find info about
it... Seems DW won't update the path of a Flash file when using a
Template. The result is that the path will always be the same as
the file was located in /Templates.
Do you guys know any way to fix or circunvent this
limitation? I have several similar pages, using PHP, and templates
were a nice solution...
Thanks!

Answer 1

> Anyway, the workarounds seem to make sense. The
"changing to Site-Root"
> solution isn't very practical as that only works if you
view the page
> after you
> upload it (must be
http:// address).
Not true. If you are previewing using temp files, it'll work
fine.
> In the template code, changing every reference to the
file from
> "../myFlash.swf" to just "myFlash.swf" seems to work.
There were 4
> instances of
> it I found to change.
That will only work if all your pages *and* your Flash file
are at the
site's root level.
> However, does anyone know if unchecking those are going
to cause problems
> with
> anything else? What exactly do those do?
The first of them causes the Flash to be placed on the page
in such a way
that the IE prompt to click to activate is avoided. I'm not
sure I've ever
seen the second prompt.
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"tomservo6" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I ran into this problem as well when trying to insert any
sort of Flash
> element, both made in Flash and the premade SWF's in DW,
into DW CS3 as
> part of
> a template. When previewing the template itself, the SWF
plays. When I
> preview
> a page created from the template, it's not there.
>
> I found a technote from over a year ago:
>
>
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=c65e8513&sliceId=2
>
> Apparently DW engineers are still "investigating" the
bug from a previous
> version.
>
> Anyway, the workarounds seem to make sense. The
"changing to Site-Root"
> solution isn't very practical as that only works if you
view the page
> after you
> upload it (must be
http:// address).
>
> In the template code, changing every reference to the
file from
> "../myFlash.swf" to just "myFlash.swf" seems to work.
There were 4
> instances of
> it I found to change.
>
> The easiest workaround that I used was to uncheck the
"Insert using
> browser-safe scripts" and "Convert tags to scripts on
file open." in
> edit ->
> preferences -> code rewriting.
>
> However, does anyone know if unchecking those are going
to cause problems
> with
> anything else? What exactly do those do?
>
>
>
>