In some cases, you may insert a Flash movie into your site, only to discover that it comes up blank on the screen.  Also, you may experience behavior where, when you attempt to re-edit the page in SiteOrganic, you receive "Extended Wait Time" warnings and are effectively unable to edit the page.

These warnings appear because SiteOrganic cannot locate the Flash file and gets "hung up" looking for it.  This is due to a relative path being used instead of an absolute path (see below).

Inserting Flash movies into pages does require a couple of special considerations.  First, you must use theabsolute reference to your SWF file.  This means that in both places in your tag (movie value="" and embed src="") you must include the full location of the SWF, beginning with "http://". 

Example (no): value="myFlashMovie.swf"

Example (yes): value=http://www.examplechurch.com/uploads/myFlashMovie.swf

Secondly, you may be referencing the SWF file in the wrong location.  You must upload the file to SiteOrganic, and then you'll be able to use a path similar to this:

http://www.examplechurch.com/uploads/myFlashMovie.swf 

NOTE: We don't recommend putting spaces in your filename.  If you have not already uploaded your file, we recommend renaming it on your local machine first and then uploading it to SiteOrganic with the proper filename.

Because of the way our page editor interprets Flash movies, you will be unable to edit this page again because it does not have an absolute reference to your swf file.  You will need to delete this page and start over.

If you are passing data to your Flash movie via the FlashVars parameter
You will need to check these each time you edit the page.  The page editor has an unfortunate habit of erasing FlashVars in the OBJECT tag section but preserving them in the EMBED section.  Each time you edit the page, you'll need to view the code, check your FlashVars, and replace/repair them as needed.