Parent has cell which contains url of child with ?Location= (value of location selected by user is appended with a concatenation)
Child has data connection defined as flash with a name of Location and bound to cell E2.
Both exported to html on my test web server
When I call the parent html, select a value for location and call the child, the child launches and I can see the correct flash value on the end of the url. But the child isn’t showing the value in cell E2, so nothing is passed to my on-load queries.
I’m puzzled. I’ve had it working before and it appears to be working on the live server. Is it an issue with flash itself? Is there a specific version I need? How do I check what version is on each server? I’m not enough of a techie to know what to look for.
by a process of elimination, I think it’s something to do with the HTML “wrapper” around my SWF files. If I call up the SWF instead of the HTML version of the child, the data connection appears tpo push the flash variable into the right cell.
In the past, I’ve auto-generated the HTML first time around, then manually edited it to change the title. After that I just export to SWF. Auto-generating no longer seems to work - only thing I can think of is that we moved to IE8 not long ago.
Debbie
ETA: Cracked it! It was the HTML. Auto-generating from Xcelsius doesn’t seem to produce an HTML file that deals with flash variables properly. I found an HTML I’d hacked before and copied it across all my current dashboards and it worked, but I have no real idea why, so if anybody knows the bare minimum code I need in an HTML file to open a SWF of the same name in IE8, then I’d be grateful if you coudl share it.
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