Your opinion on whether to insert a Captivate 5 swf or copy the slides from the swf's project?

I was wondering what peoples opinion is on inserting a Captivate swf or just copy and paste the slides from the project? If I insert a swf the project would be smaller, but sometimes its harder to control the swf (as in playing it inside of a project). If I copy and paste the slides, my project could have over 150 slides. I know that I can break down into small chunks, like one project per procedure, but..
I just would like some other people's opinion on this. I really appreciate any insight you may have ont. Thanks.

I've not had good luck putting Captivate-published SWF files into a new CP project file... As you say, playback can get crazy, slide completions not marked correctly, timings off...
If the SWF files I have are not interactive, I convert them to FLV/F4V and import them into the new CP project that way - much more reliable in my experience.
If they are interactive though, I just past the slides themselves.

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Hi Lilybiri,
The things is that for the Try-It, I'd like to use the playbar but for the main project that houses the SWF, I don't want to have a playbar. If i insert the Try It as slides in the main project (instead of insert a SWF), the the playbar becomes global to the whole project.
Also, I would have a lot ot slides in the main project file since there are going to be at least 7-8 Try Its, which if inserted as SWFs sound management but if I insert the slides for each of them, my main project will have way too many slides.
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Could you please give me your opinion on the business scenario we have here:
We are implementing SRM 4.0 with backend R/3 4.6C, WAS 6.4 and Portal 6.0. SRM has its typical shopping cart applications mainly for procurement and the workflow trail displaying the approval. The client wants us to build a few custom forms on the web frontend of SRM (or may be in Portal). The idea is to store these forms and display when needed with the status info just like a shopping cart.
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SAP Webdynpro Java:
It seems that the Webdynpro is easier to use because of the graphical tools available. But the only problem if we go this route is that we will have to find a java guy.
SAP Webdynpro ABAP:
We currently have WAS 6.4. As per the documentation, the ABAP Webdynpro development tool is available from NW04s onwards. So, we are still not sure if we could use it. But, we want to push towards upgrading if necessary. Being an old time ABAPer, developing ABAP Webdynpro seems do-able. (i know it may not be that easy).
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The creation of the workflow may not be that bad after the original form is designed. The graphical display of the approval trail might be difficult, but we might get away with a report for that. For printing the details of the form, I guess I could develop a smartform and put out a button on the screen to print it out in the display view.
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After going through it what is your opinion. please do post your opinion.
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After going through it what is your opinion. please do post your opinion.
While creating the Report has the following Report Options on / checked.
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Edited by: Md. Mushtaque on Sep 6, 2008 2:50 PM
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Sir AG,
Thanks a lot for replying and spending your valuable time for my problem.
Sir, I just want to put this in your knowledge that my application is web based application and I am calling these reports through web forms i.e. of ASP.NET coded in vb from .aspx.vb files.
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