Good evening,
I struggle for months with this problem…
I have a swf on a page on my site, but the problem is that I can not get any permalinks that I can copy and use elsewere to link directly to the content of the slideshow?
I asked a bunch of questions on the SSP forum, but I believe, one assumes that everyone is a code wizard ?
Well, I am not , I am a photographer !
On the wiki forum of SSP (SlideShowPro) they make it look very simple:
"Enabling permalinks with Director is easy. All you need to do is add the permalinks option to the flashvars section of your embed code, like so:
flashvars: {
xmlFilePath: “http://you.slideshowpro.com/images.php?album=1”,
permalinks: “On”
}
Excuse me, “flashvars section” where do I find such a thing ? And how and where could I eventually add this?
How are you embedding your SSP slideshows on the FW page?
Do you copy the embed code from Director and then in Freeway go to “Insert > Markup Item” and paste the code in there to create a markup item on the page?
In that pasted code is where the flash variables (flashvars) are, as you quoted above. After the word “flashvars” in the code you will find variables between curly brackets “{” and “}”. They have the form name: “value” and are separated by commas. Just add a comma to the end and then add permalinks: “On” to the code, all before the final } close bracket.
Well, I found it now, but it resembles in nothing the adaptions I made in Flash ( I also use SSP for flash). In order to get it right, I think I need a code from flash ?
If you’ve customised the SWF in Flash then you’ll have to add it manually. (I don’t have or use SSP for Flash, and I have no experience of making changes in Flash.) I guess you publish your own slideshowpro.swf file? If so you’ll have to replace the .swf installed with Director, which you will find in the “slideshowpro/m” folder on your server.
I don’t really know how to help you further as I only know how do make it work the way I do it! I am a photographer not a coder too : )
My main website does not yet use Director and doesn’t show permalinks, and the only pages I have working I cannot post publicly, but I have made a sample page for you to see the source.