[Pro] Help with uploading Slideshow

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I followed the instructions on this page to create a slideshow in Flash.
http://www.softpress.com/kb/questions/158/Adding+a+slideshow+produced+with+SlideShowPro+for+Flash+onto+a+Freeway+page

OUt of the slideshow folder, I dragged the .swf file to the page in Freeway. I then copied the slideshow folder to the Website folder just like the instructions said. I then uploaded the folder with ftp.

It isn’t working. Here is a my page.
http://amandakershaw.com/gallery.html

Screenshot of the html of the page:
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Screenshots of my ftp program:
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The material is there, but it’s not embedded properly.
Apparently, the site is only referencing the .swf that I dragged onto the Freeway page (which is now sitting in the Resources folder), and it’s ignoring the slideshow folder that I copied to the Website folder. (which contains all the photos and an xml file to tell the slideshow where the photos are)

How do I get my website to find the slideshow folder and the photos?

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Not easy to tell from your screenshots but do you have 2 ‘Resources’ folders? FW one and the slideshow one somewhere else.

David

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The other thing to look at is this critical line

“you’ll need to manually upload the slideshow folder so that it’s in the same location as the page on which you’re using the .swf file”

So what is the name of the page you are using to display your slideshow? gallery.html I assume.

I see also from your XML file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gallery>
	
<album title="Piping Portraits" description="Various portraits, events, competitions, and a band parade." lgPath="gallery/album1/large/">
	<img src="tree.jpg" />
	<img src="well.jpg" />
	<img src="golfcourse.jpg" />
	<img src="COcompetition.jpg" />
	<img src="competition.jpg" />
	<img src="church3.jpg" />
	<img src="church2.jpg" />
	<img src="band.jpg" />
	<img src="marching.jpg" />
	<img src="marching3.jpg" />
	<img src="plumballey.jpg" />
	<img src="sdc.jpg" />
</album>

</gallery>

That you do not have complete paths to the image files

They should be something more like

<img src="album1/large/tree.jpg" />

Depending on the actual paths - again not clear what files are in which folders from the screenshots.

David

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Oops!

I missed the line

lgPath=“gallery/album1/large/”>

So what I wrote before may not strictly be true but I do suspect that the problem is the path to the files.

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I think I would change the line in the XML that says

<album title="Piping Portraits" description="Various portraits, events, competitions, and a band parade." lgPath="gallery/album1/large/">

To just

<album lgpath="gallery/album1/large/">

If that is the correct path - and see if that works.

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I used Slideshow Pro with Director to get my files uploaded to my site, so I can’t say for sure how to upload your files with the standalone version (director makes things much easier and is worth the $25 price).

Anyway, DanJ is the expert on this and he did respond to a previous post on things to do and look for. Here is the link to that post (search on DanJ Slideshow Pro); [http://freewaytalk.net/thread/view/46284#m_46284]

good luck

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