flash pages in livelink 2

[suyetoc]

Is it possible to have flash pages in livelink. I have added the [viewablemimetypes application/x-flash swf into the opentext.ini but when I try to open the swf file on livelink all I get is garbage. I'm new to this stuff so don't be to harsh..


Thanks a bunch
Casey

 

[AndyH1]

You can run flash applications in Livelink. The problem you are having is that you cannot run a flash swf file on its own unless you have the Flash standalone player installed on your machine (avaialble from Macromedia)

You probably don't want to do this anyway though as what I think you want to do is run the flash in a webpage using the standard flash plugin in explorer. The normal flash player will not run an swf on its own but needs a web page with code such as the following in it
<OBJECT classid=&quot;clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000&quot;
codebase=&quot;

http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0&quot;

ID=awards WIDTH=470 HEIGHT=280 border=0>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=&quot;front.swf&quot;>
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src=&quot;front.swf&quot; quality=high bgcolor=#ffffff WIDTH=470 HEIGHT=280 TYPE=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; PLUGINSPAGE=&quot;

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&quot;></EMBED>

</OBJECT>
Replacing front.swf with whatever your swf is called. Upload the webpage with this code in and the swf to the same livelink directory (you can for example call the webpage customview.html, and when you click on the web page it will run the flash.

Hope this helps

 

[ggriffit]

You can store flash items in Livelink - they are stored as normal documents, you may need to amend some of the config files to get the handling that you want for VIEW and DOWNLOAD, which it looks like you have done.

If you want to display a flash item on the screen when a user enters a particular folder/project etc then you are probably best loading the item into Livelink and then creating a Customview.HTML file containing the link to the item.