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Garrett Fisher 341 posts 496 karma points

Sep 24, 2009 @ 20:49

Hi,

On my home page document type I've got a Media Picker property which allows the use to choose a Flash movie to display. In the template for this page, I am trying to insert the name of the movie file as follows:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0"
width="100" height="100"><param name="movie"
value="<umbraco:Item field='FlashMovie' stripParagraph='true'
runat='server'></umbraco:Item>" /><param name="quality"
value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param
name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="<umbraco:Item
field='FlashMovie' stripParagraph='true'
runat='server'></umbraco:Item>" wmode="transparent"
quality="high" menu="false"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100"
height="100"></embed></object>

The problem I'm having is that the

<umbraco:Item field='FlashMovie' stripParagraph='true'
runat='server'></umbraco:Item>

tag is returning the file's ID, which clearly I don't need. How do I write the file's path and filename to the page?

Thanks,

Garrett

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Masood Afzal 176 posts 522 karma points

Sep 24, 2009 @ 20:52

xslt sample

<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/data [@alias='FlashMovie'], 'false')/data [@alias='umbracoFile']" />

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Masood Afzal 176 posts 522 karma points

Sep 24, 2009 @ 20:53
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Consider using library function
```
umbraco.library:GetMedia(...)
```
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Garrett Fisher 341 posts 496 karma points

Sep 24, 2009 @ 21:18

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Thanks!

Doesn't look like I can place this XSLT directly into the template where my <umbraco:Item> tag was though. Is this the case? I'm still having a hard time figuring out how all these different "pieces" fit together in Umbraco. Not suer when to have an XSLT file and when to put it in the template, etc. Can I put this <xsl:value-of> tag in the template? If not, then how do I refer to the XSLT file I create for it in the template?

//Garrett

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Masood Afzal 176 posts 522 karma points

Sep 24, 2009 @ 22:29

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Have a llok at this post

http://our.umbraco.org/forum/using/ui-questions/2913-Inserting-flash-by-end-users

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