Dynamic Text in request

Hi all,
i want some dynamic text like " For Current FY(2009-10)" as request heading ,right now im using javascript in static text but the problem im facing is i am not able to download it(javascript) to PDF.do we have any other way to achive the dynamic text.
thnx
deepak

Then Do one thing...
If you want current Year create a column in criteria with functionality as:
CASE WHEN 1=0 THEN Customers.Name else Year(Current_Date) end
(Take any char column in place of Customers.Name)
And note down the column position
Now add Narrative, write text in narrative like:
*Current Year: @{column position}*
Hope it helps

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I am building a dynamic website using Dreamweaver CS5 with Coldfusion 9
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I have managed to load an external text file in one place one the maintimeline. I would like to do the same thing on other frames. When I go to duplicate the same thing that I did on the first one I get a duplicate textReq request. Do I need to give the textReq a more specific name for each section? When I did this the movie wouldn't even recognize and of the code that was working before.
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I am attaching link so you can see sections I am talking about. Also you will notice that the swf file I loaded won't go away. That's another problem...ugh.
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http://www.sandraschmitt.com/coclico/index100.html
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stop();
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
function startLoad() {
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news.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickSection);
contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickSection);
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var textReq:URLRequest;
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I can tell you guys really want to help, but please consider
me a beginner. I don't see "VbCr" or "Chr10" in my code anywhere.
or what to actually replace. I appreciate everything that has been
posted. Can you be a little more specific for adumb programmer.
Thank you in advance
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<%
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"?MM_Logoutnow=1"
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Request.QueryString <> "") Then
MM_newQS = "?"
For Each Item In Request.QueryString
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If (Len(MM_newQS) > 1) Then MM_newQS = MM_newQS &
MM_newQS = MM_newQS & Item & "=" &
Server.URLencode(Request.QueryString(Item))
End If
Next
if (Len(MM_newQS) > 1) Then MM_logoutRedirectPage =
MM_logoutRedirectPage & MM_newQS
End If
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End If
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<%
' *** Restrict Access To Page: Grant or deny access to this
page
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MM_grantAccess=false
If Session("MM_Username") <> "" Then
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(InStr(1,MM_authorizedUsers,Session("MM_UserAuthorization"))>=1)
Then
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rs02.CursorType = 0
rs02.CursorLocation = 2
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rs02_numRows = 0
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<%
Dim Repeat1__numRows
Dim Repeat1__index
Repeat1__numRows = 10
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%>
<%
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%>
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%>
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Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Admin - Results</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
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Baptist Church<br />
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</tr>
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rs02.EOF)) %>
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MM_joinChar(MM_keepURL) & "ID=" &
rs02.Fields.Item("ID").Value %>">Edit</A></p>
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%>
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I can tell you guys really want to help, but please consider me
a beginner. I don't see "VbCr" or "Chr10" in my code anywhere. or
what to actually replace. I appreciate everything that has been
posted. Can you be a little more specific for adumb
programmer.

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What would be the best way doing dynamic text and objects to your FC builded web site?
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I've had lot of request to make web pages with parts that customers can upgrade on their own.
Example they want to upgrade some news on the page etc.
I probably do not have to make whole page dynamic.
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Hi folks,
I'm having a very minor issue here (operator error, I'm sure ). With the help of some folks here, I've created a series of calculations, and I've got that part down. Now, I just need it to show up in the movie.
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You didn't have to bury any of the calculations in the function--leaving it as you had it is better. They could remain where they a=werew, and you'll probably find you want them outside it if you have other plans for using them. If left inside, they only have scope inside. In the programming world, it's good to think of functions as things that do one thing and one thing only (though it isn't often practiced that way)--it's called modular design.
When you place an event as an argument for a function, it typically means that there is an event listener that initiates the call to the function. If you work with buttons you'll see what I mean. But if the plan is to create your own call to a function when you desire it as such, not have it driven by an event listener, then you don't need to pass any event to it, though you may pass some other type of variable to it if need be.
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displaytotal();
But you could also make the function a little more generic and set it up to recieve the value instead as an argument...
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total.text = String(amt); // an earlier error of mine
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So since we're told "flash is dead", my interest in Edge is to try to do some of the things that I can currently do in flash in EDGE. I was excited when Edge first came out but lost interest when it became obvious that Adobe was not going to offer Edge and Muse to "suite owners" but only in their force feeding of the "Cloud". Better known as the "golden goose" for adobe stockholders and a never ending perpetual hole in the pocket for users. Anyway....
I spent the last couple of days doing some of the tuts and messing with the UI. It's matured a lot since I was here last.
I've been working on a flash site for a sports team where one of the pages is a player profile page where college recuriters and other interested parties can view recuriting relavent info/stats about players. This is how it works. While on the "Team" page a users clicks on a button labled "Player Profiles" . (Animation) A "page" flies in and unfurls from the upper right corner (3d page flips effect created in AE played by flash as a frame SEQ). Once it lands filling most of the center of the screen there is a bright flash. As the brightness fades we see the "page" is a bordered box with a BG image of a ball field(End). (Animation) from behind the border in fly small pictures (player head shots with name and jersey number). They stream in and form a circle like a wagon train and the team logo zooms up from infinity to the center of the circle(End). As the user mouses over a player's pic it zooms up a little and gets brighter (like mouseover image nav thumbs for a image slider). If the user clicks on a player's head shot it flips over and scales up to become a text box with a scrollbar. The content of the box is a mix of images, static and dynamic text fields populated from data in an "player info data base" XML file, and some hyperlinks. It's all kept updated dynamicaly with current stats, info and images from the XML file. There is also a "PDF" button that allows the user to open/save/print a PDF of the player's profile (the PDF's are static files for now but the choice of which pdf to retrive is dynamicaly supplied via the XML file.
So.... Is Edge now able to do something like this? Would it need to be a collection of small animations? could these be "assembled" and connected as an asset in dreamweaver ?
I thought I would approach this from the end (ie click on an image and display a box with dynamic TEXT fileds. ) since that is the most important part, ie displaying the dynamicaly updated profile info. Sooooo....
Can Edge display a scrolling text box with Images, static text, and html dynamic text in it??
Joel

The code is in composition ready. Click the filled {}

How to use same dynamic text, multiple times in a Movie

FLASH CS5.5
How can a dynamic text field be used multiple times, on any
frame, in any new layer during a Movie?
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A number of unique dynamic text fields are being used.
The intent is to use them each, many times during a Movie.
(i.e. a users first name)
They are successfully being "ExternalInterfaced" from a PDF form field.
(the SWF is displayed within the PDF as a RMA)
This all works well, IF I only use one instance of the dynamic text field.
(one use of each unique text field)
If I try and use that same dynamic text field, again, in a new layer, later in the SWF,
all of that said, duplicate dynamic text fields do not display.
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Stumped!!!
Thanks in advance for your advice / comments!
D-

Thanks Ned,
I always welcome learning something new.
I did not know creating a new keyframe,
creates a new instance.
Yes, I had used the same dynamic text field instance name in
numerous, new layers (great observation).
With the objective to display the User's name throughout
the timeline (on and off)...
I'll attempt to paraphrase your solution;
Use a single layer to display the dynamic text field.
Extend this layer's timeline throughout the movie, or end use of the dynamic text field.
Help with this one ??
Set the visible properties to true or false as need through out the timeline.
( Does require an AS3 ? )
I'll give that a try.....
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Side of effect of using the above solution;
The SWF in it's attempted state, uses the dynamic text field instance, in
different places, different text sizes, on the stage, throughout the Movie.
(i.e. the User's first name appears in different sentences...)
Per the solution above,
I believe I will be limited to One location, one format setting.
Is this assumption correct?
I can make this work from a display / Movie point of view.
However, your first VAR concept, noted above, might be
worth exploring should more flexibility be required.
Thanks for making the time to coach...
D-

How do I make dynamic text look static while the HMTL tagging is enabled?

Hi all,
I am using flash 8 with AS 2.0.
I have a dynamic text field where I am setting it's text value through a variable. Now, I need this dynamic text field content to look like static font on runtime. I tried embedding the text field but that makes my file so heavy and most importantly, it disables the HTML tagging on the text field.
Please suggest me on how to make a dynamic text field content look static on runtime while the HTML tagging is enabled and working fine.
Thanks.

I am sorry. But the attachment was not intended for what you
thought my friend.
It was there so that there are no confusions for what I mean by look of dynamic and static text fields.

Dynamic Text in request

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