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Topic: adding flash file help

Posted By: Ashutosh
Subject: adding flash file help
Date Posted: 05-August-2009 at 10:47am

I want to put flash file instead of images in category views .. can i do this?? if yes .. how?
where should i change the code.

Thank you.

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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 05-August-2009 at 10:56am

Instead of putting anything in the image selection just add it in the HTML for the product Description.

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Posted By: Ashutosh
Date Posted: 06-August-2009 at 6:34am

Hello Hamish,

Thank you for the reply and help .I did what you told me. But in category view its not showing up the flash file. Instead its displaying no image something. I want to display .swf file in viewcategories.asp page.

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 06-August-2009 at 11:09am

Are you trying to display the flash as the main category image at the top, or as the image for one of the subcategories?

I suggest you post a link. It's very hard to direct you if we are simply guessing at what you are doing, and trying to interpret what you say you see.

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Posted By: Ashutosh
Date Posted: 06-August-2009 at 11:15am

Hello Greg,

This is the link http://www.gifts-ontime.com/productcart/pc/viewcategories.asp
I'm trying the display the flash as a main category image. Instead of an image i want to display flash .How can i do this?

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 06-August-2009 at 11:35am

If you need to display flash at the root level, such as you propose here, you cannot do this without custom mods. You need the entire HTML block of code that drives the Flash to be placed into the root category records somewhere, then alter viewcategories.asp to go grab that code and place it on the page.

If you want to display flash as the upper image on an inner category such as below, you can try placing that block of HTML to drive the flash in the category description.

http://www.gifts-ontime.com/productcart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=15 - http://www.gifts-ontime.com/productcart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=15

Does this make sense?

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Posted By: Ashutosh
Date Posted: 06-August-2009 at 11:43am

Yeah greg, I tried placing the html code to the category description before and its works no doubt. But where should i put block of html code and how viewcategories.asp will grab it.
I know flash needs to be embedded but what files should i alter??? and how??

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 06-August-2009 at 12:09pm

I'm sorry but the scale of such a request is greater than I can provide here in the forum.

Perhaps someone else will go do this and post it for you, but you may need to hire a developer to help if you cannot work this out.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 07-August-2009 at 11:47pm

See https://www.earlyimpact.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2933 - https://www.earlyimpact.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2933

While this would be a simple customization of the source code for who's familiar with the server-side scripting, as Greg says: it's a bit beyond scope to handled on the forum here.