As a user you will insert Flash movies into your website by using the Insert Plugin content element. Just follow the next few steps and your animation will flicker on your desired webpage.
First you have to create a new record which will hold all information about your Flash movie. A good idea is to create a sysfolder (that's a page with a gray folder icon like the ones you see below) and store your Flash movie records at a central place. However, you may also create a Flash Movie record in any page you want, just select new and then „Flash Movie“:
Next step is to fill in all the details of you Flash movie. On the very first screenshot you have seen how the record form looks like, here is an explanation of the fields you encounter:
Description: Just punch in some descriptive name.
Required Flash version: Currently you may choose a number from 2 to 9 which relates to the version number of the Flash player being required. If the visitor has no Flash plugin or a Flash player with a version lower than the required one, a static picture will be displayed instead (see below)
Width / Height: The width and height of your Flash movie in pixels
Quality: Choose between High and Low
Display menu: If you check this option, the visitor may rightclick your movie and do some actions like pausing the movie.
Loop: If checked, your movie will be looped.
Alternate picture: Just upload a picture which will be shown if no or no valid Flash player is available. It makes sense to upload a still picture of your Flash movie with the same width and height!
Link (for Alternate picture): Here you may specify a link which will be wrapped around the alternate picture.
Flash file: Upload your flash file here
XML: You may upload any file here. The path to your uploaded file will be passed to the Flash movie by a special variable (FlashVars: xurl)
Additional parameters: This textarea is for special parameters you might want to pass over to your Flash movie. Just put one parameter per line, separate name and value by comma (e.g. enableBraintToFlash, true)
Now that you created a record with all the information about your Flash movie, you may insert it into one or more pages of your website. Just create a new content element and select the plugin „Flash movie“:
Now just select the page and the Flash Movie record which you like to display on this page by using the element browser:
That's it.
