Using SWF Loader

Hi Gurus,
I have been looking through other questions like this, and not sure if the resolutions that I have seen will work. I have a dashboard that I want to use the SWF loader in to bring in SWF files (obviously) but they are not stored in InfoView - which is what has been talked about in other questions.
I have looked in the user guide and have seen that I can use DocumentDownload or OpenDoc, not that I am familiar with either. My question really is this:
1. could i use one or other of these even though i am not going through infoview (so i dont have a cuid)
2. how would I write the syntax?
I tried using a URL button, but I have a container on the main summary dashboard that I want the swf's to load in, rather than have a new screen load up.
Could someone give me some advice on this??
Many thanks,
Sarah

Hi Roman,
Thanks for the response,
I got that point that i cannot use SWF loader to show my Sub Dashboard inside my main dashboard.
So my question What is the way (Working) to show the sub dashboard inside the main dashboard using the BICS(On EP).
I have tried to published my Sub Dashboard and Main Dashboard on EP and tried to call the Sub Dashboard using the HTML Link...(SWF Loader/Slide Show)...but these comp. wont work...
so which way i shd go..
Are you saying i shd go via "Web Application Designer--creating the template and calling Dashboards(main n Sub) seperately???
Sam...
Edited by: Sapbpc_user on Dec 1, 2010 12:57 PM

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