Spry Dataset loading question

I have a general question to any of the experts using the
Spry dataset. I created a test page that works beautifully, and
want to use it as a portfolio presentation on my website. It
automatically created two pages – the dataset, and it’s
data counterpart. The “data” page is a long scrolling
tabled page with a link/content/description column – the
“content” column cells each contain a fairly large
image that displays on the main dataset page in a
“window” as each item is selected.
My question is this – when the dataset calls/displays a
cell from the data page, is it only loading the image that’s
being called, or does it need to load all of the images on the data
page (even though they aren’t displayed until selected)? I
originally assumed they were being called individually, but when I
set up a similar page to display my flv and swf animations in, the
dataset worked - but when the first animation was displayed I could
hear the audio of all of the other animations that were on the
original data page at the same time. This leads me to believe that
there is a definite download/time issue on a page that has several
fairly weighty images/animations...
This could be a HUGE shot in the foot if a viewer is browsing
on a slower connection. My current site uses flash with externally
linked images and works perfectly:
http://www.jgigandet.com/.
Each image loads only when they are called (but it’s a hassle
to make updates to the portfolio)… is there a way to only
load each image as it’s called using the spry menu?
Thanks to anyone who has any insight or advice,
Jesse

I'm not feelin the love - is there another place we can ask
Adobe experts questions about their software? -
I just want to know how the spry dataset works, and if it's a
good choice for what I'm trying to do. I'm not looking to critique
or demean the technology - for the most part it works awesome. I
just need some clear paramerters of how it works, and if loading a
long list of large images will crash and burn on a slow
connection...? Does anyone have any other ways of contacting Adobe
support directly with questions such as these?
Thanks - this is my last post of this question to bubble it
back to the top... promise...

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Hi Spry experts:
I've been battling a good battle: Spry datasets and mobile app development. I'm making headway, but as is true in life, there are problems. I've professor googled for several days related to the current issue without success. I'm throwing in the towel and asking for help.
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I'll paste the code here to show you what I'm attempting.
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This is the actual link to the JSON that I'm wanting to use:
http://mcelroy.acquiretm.com/services/CareerCenterJSON.aspx?get=GetActiveJobs
But of course using this path causes it to fail.
Thanks again for the help!

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recently added Thickbox to. Once I've added the 2 required js
script files to the header, the dataset stopped displaying any
data.I found a detailed thread about this very problem in the
forums, but all the combinations of adding an observer to my spry
dataset haven't helped at all. Here is the code of the latest
attempt - anyone see where I went wrong?

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dataset is
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You can try this:
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function attached to
"$(document).ready" (lines 14 to 16):
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where to apply
thickbox
imgLoader = new Image();// preload image
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using Spry
3.- Now, go to the main document where you defined the
observer:
This is your current code:
<script>
function myRegionCallback(notificationState, notifier, data)
if (notificationType == "onPreUpdate")
alert(regionID + " is starting an update!");
else if (notificationType == "onPostUpdate")
alert(regionID + " is done updating!");
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<link href="css/thickbox.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">

Spry.Data.Region.addObserver("ddetail", MyRegionCallback);
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interested in the moment
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function with an
region observer object:
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type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
HTH
Andres Cayon
Spain Adobe Dreamweaver User Group
http://www.dwug.es
"rlcigars" <[email protected]> escribió
en el mensaje de noticias
news:[email protected]...
> I've been working with a spry dataset on a project that
I've recently
> added
> Thickbox to. Once I've added the 2 required js script
files to the header,
> the
> dataset stopped displaying any data.I found a detailed
thread about this
> very
> problem in the forums, but all the combinations of
adding an observer to
> my
> spry dataset haven't helped at all. Here is the code of
the latest
> attempt -
> anyone see where I went wrong?
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
> xmlns:spry="
http://ns.adobe.com/spry">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
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type="text/javascript"></script>
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type="text/javascript"></script>
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type="text/javascript"></script>
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type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script>
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data)
> {
> if (notificationType == "onPreUpdate")
> alert(regionID + " is starting an update!");
> else if (notificationType == "onPostUpdate")
> alert(regionID + " is done updating!");
> }
>
> </script>
>
>
> <link href="css/thickbox.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
> <script type="text/javascript">
> 
> Spry.Data.Region.addObserver("ddetail",
MyRegionCallback);
>
> </script>
>
>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <div id="ddetail" spry:region="dsCalendar">
> <table width="982">
> <tr>
> <th width="169"><div
align="left">Company</div></th>
> <th width="140"><div
align="left">Appointment Date</div></th>
> <th width="127"><div
align="left">Appointment Time</div></th>
> <th width="153"><div
align="left">Number</div></th>
> <th width="70"><div align="left">Caller
ID</div></th>
> <th width="108"><div align="left">Last
Called</div></th>
> <th>edit</th>
> </tr>
> <tr spry:repeat="dsCalendar">
> <td>{company}</td>
> <td>{app_date}</td>
> <td>{app_time}</td>
> <td>{number}</td>
> <td>{clid}</td>
> <td>{last_called}</td>
> <td><a
href="DNUsingledetail.php?id={id}">edit</a></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </div>
>

Spry dataset not working in Template - please help

Hi all,
I have a situation where when I pull a spry dataset from an
xml file and display the contents in a table which works fine in a
regular html page but not a template formed page for repeatable
region.
The error I get is FAILED TO RETRIEVE DATA SET FOR SPRY
REPEAT. Prior to that it tells me GetParentDataSet is null or not
an object. I tried setting up a repeat region around the repeated
rows but that didn't work either. So I pulled everything else out
that might be causing the problem but nothing. I checked the
pathing as well for the spry assets and it checks out okay.
Anyway, here's the template.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:spry="
http://ns.adobe.com/spry">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>


<link href="../styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">
<link href="../styles/linkB.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">
<link href="../styles/linkA.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">

<script src="../SpryAssets/xpath.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryData.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
// Setup nested data sets:
var dsReagCons = new
Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("../xml/consumables.xml",
"electrodes_and_accessories/item[@catno='il_acl100_7000_coag_systems']");
</script>
</head>
<body>

This
is a test

<div spry:region="dsReagCons">
<table align='center' width='680' border='1'
cellpadding='3' cellspacing='0' class='form'>
<tr>
<td colspan='5' class='prodHead' >Electrodes and
Accessories</td>
</tr>
<tr class='prodHead2'>
<td spry:sort="ddi_cat_no" width='80'>Diamond<br
/>
Cat. No.</td>
<td spry:sort="oem_cat_no" width='80'>OEM<br />
Cat. No.</td>
<td width='300'>Description</td>
<td spry:sort="models" width='100'>Models</td>
<td width='45'>UOM</td>
</tr>
<tr spry:repeat="dsReagCons">
<td>{dsReagCons::ddi_cat_no}</td>
<td>{dsReagCons::oem_cat_no}</td>
<td>{dsReagCons::desc}</td>
<td>{dsReagCons::models}</td>
<td>{dsReagCons::uom}</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
What am I missing here? Like I said I even tried putting a
repeat region around the table itself.
Thanks,
-- Jim

Hey,
Good to have a comm expert on this. Actually I solved the
problem. It was combination of what I was doing within the template
and the way the xml file was formed. Also, I had to use a template
parameter to feed a spry:test filter.
Thanks for getting back to me anyway.
-- Jim

Can I link to specific items in a Spry dataset?

I have a website for a community festival. I'm using a spry dataset for the festival events http://www.horizonfest.co.uk/programme/events.html . Visitors click on an event in the left hand column and it appears on the right.
The festival programme is on this page: http://www.horizonfest.co.uk/programme/sitemap.html . If you scroll down to for example the evening event on 16 July, it will take you to the events page (first link above). My clients would like it to open the event for 16 July on the events page (and similarly for any event). At the moment visitors have to scroll down and open the event themselves.
I have tried putting an anchor in the 16 July data item. I am not surprised it doesn't work because the anchor is effectively on a different page.
So, is there any way of doing this? I'll be pleased if the answer is definitively 'no'. I'll be delighted if there is a way of doing this. If there isn't it may be something to look at in the future.
I subscribe to creative cloud.
Thank you
Chris Sissons

I'm sorry I don't have an answer for you other than to say it's a grim future for Spry. Adobe abandoned the framework late last year with no plans for future development with it.
Nancy O.

Spry:state="loading" for Spry.Utils.updateContent

It would be very handy to be able to use something like
spry:state="loading" for Spry.Utils.updateContent. Right now it
seems you can only use the :state="loading" for regions. Makes
sense but being able to activate the loading div while update
content is running would also be very handy. To that matter for
waiting for tabs to load, etc.

Cool. Thanks for the reference, Andrew!

Link to image in Spry dataset

With Acces you create the dataset and then just pull the dataentry into the link box and you're done.
I know hot to make the link open in a new page but how to put the data into the link box using a spry dataset??
Tried pulling it to the link box but id soent work... any ideas??

edited my first post and I hope for a reply

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