Before deploying templates, you should author and test movies within Flash. Remember to modify data source references to relative paths if their locations are not identical to the paths used during authoring. Relative paths make the template's location more flexible.
FTP clients should transfer movies and template files using the BINARY mode setting. You should set clients that have Automatic options (such as Fetch on the Macintosh) to BINARY. Files uploaded as TEXT will be translated during upload and are often corrupted during the process. Data sources and other external media files should be uploaded normally, using settings that will not alter or translate the data. (For example, you can upload Macintosh data sources as BINARY to preserve the MacRoman encoding of higher ASCII characters.)
Specifying parameters for the Online Generator
You can define variables for a template using parameters on a URL. Passing parameters on the URL is the fastest method to pass data to Generator because it does not need to access the server's file system when processing the template. Use the following syntax to append the variables to the URL:
path/template_file.swt?var1=String1&var2=String2
Here, var1
and var2
are the variable names and String1
and String2
are the values for the variables.
Note: For any special characters in variables, use standard URL escape codes (denoted by a percent sign (%) and a two-character hexadecimal symbol from the ISO-Latin-1 character set).