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New_guy1
New_guy1
Inspiring
November 30, 2016
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My Button "on success" Open URL or file isn't working!

  • November 30, 2016
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I tried "Current", "New", and "Top".  I can't get my project to open up a URL. A simple url. What could I be doing wrong?

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    Correct answer Captiv8r

    Forget about Parent and Top choices. Those only deal with link options when framesets are involved. Where are you testing from? After publishing and from your hard drive? And is the format SWF? If so, you need to add your publish location to the trusted folders for the flash player.

    This link will show you how to do it.

    Click here to view

    Cheers... Rick

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    November 30, 2016

    How did you test: try Preview HTML in Browser (F11). Are you sure the URL is not protected?

      New_guy1
      New_guy1Author
      Inspiring
      November 30, 2016

      Lily:

      Having more success but other strange stuff happened.

      I used F11 (What does F11 mean BTW. I usually use the File menu "publish" ) instead of Shift F12 --which is the File Menu >Publish

      My navigation buttons worked but I could only hear some clicking, not clicking with each mouse click.

      Also, Help DID bring me to my help URL in the company's internal web site.

      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
      Legend
      November 30, 2016

      Sorry, you have two Preview methods in Browser:

      F12 = Preview in Browser, will show Flash output

      F11 = Preview HTML in Browser, will show HTML output

      You have already published, to watch the published file, you can try to do it locally but that means that you need to set up Flash trusted locations as Rick explained, and he posted a nice video explaining how to do that. The SWF output is launched using the xxxx.htm file (xxx is the same name as for the .swf file). To launch the HMTL output you use the index.html file. You'll also have another html file which launches the multiscreen file. Since a while I never use publishing to both SWF and HTML, not always working fine.

        Captiv8r
        Captiv8rCorrect answer
        Legend
        November 30, 2016

        Forget about Parent and Top choices. Those only deal with link options when framesets are involved. Where are you testing from? After publishing and from your hard drive? And is the format SWF? If so, you need to add your publish location to the trusted folders for the flash player.

        This link will show you how to do it.

        Click here to view

        Cheers... Rick

          New_guy1
          New_guy1Author
          Inspiring
          November 30, 2016

          I'm choosing publish as SWF and HTML5. It's asking me "Do you wish to view output?" I say yes.

          My help screen URL's are accessible from anywhere inside the company.

          I also tried a simple C:\NOTES.TXT file as a link and that didn't work either.

          Are you saying I should press the radio button "CURRENT"?

          I just want to link to a help URL or a HELP text file or HELP PDF text file or HELP word document I have.

          Lilybiri
          Lilybiri
          Legend
          November 30, 2016

          View output will show the SWF output. If you published to the default folder Preferences, it shoudl have been added as Flash trusted location. Can you try to view the HTML output, by running the index.html file?

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