Does anyone know if it's possible to utilize umbraco in connection with flash?
The idea here would be to create classes that and link those to an XML file that is linked to the swf. An example of what I mean would look like this:
A flash featured content slideshow that could be configured so that the basic of the basic of users could use an upload call and a simple text input to update it, rather than going through the XML file andftp uploads.
hope that makes sense and hopefully someone can help me out.
You can do even better (for the editors): You can have custom datatypes describing the slides, with a Media Picker to point to an image or a folder of images/videos, along with textfields for the captions, headers etc.
You can then have an XSLT macro output the XML needed for the flash to do its thing, and just point the flash file to that.
We're doing that in a lot of Umbraco solutions and the clients love it :-)
Utilizing umbruco as CMS for flash swfs?
Does anyone know if it's possible to utilize umbraco in connection with flash?
The idea here would be to create classes that and link those to an XML file that is linked to the swf. An example of what I mean would look like this:
A flash featured content slideshow that could be configured so that the basic of the basic of users could use an upload call and a simple text input to update it, rather than going through the XML file andftp uploads.
hope that makes sense and hopefully someone can help me out.
Hi Sean,
You can do even better (for the editors): You can have custom datatypes describing the slides, with a Media Picker to point to an image or a folder of images/videos, along with textfields for the captions, headers etc.
You can then have an XSLT macro output the XML needed for the flash to do its thing, and just point the flash file to that.
We're doing that in a lot of Umbraco solutions and the clients love it :-)
/Chriztian
Hi Sean
As Chriztian is saying you can make it very easy for the clients to update the flash content. Perhaps you can also find some inspiration on the topic on umbraco.tv here http://umbraco.tv/documentation/videos/for-developers/rich-internet-applications/loading-umbraco-data-into-flash and here http://umbraco.tv/documentation/videos/for-developers/rich-internet-applications/sending-data-from-flash-to-umbraco
/Jan
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