I just loaded MSS on my clients website. It was fine on my computer, it was fine on the temp site but now when they FTP'd the info the launch the site, it's not working. I have two MSS.xml Monoslideshow1.xml and Monoslideshow2.xml each with four albums a piece. The Monoslideshow.xml Gallery is working fine. The Monoslideshow2.xml gallery is missing images. Only one pic show out of the four galleries. I have gone over the codes with a fine tuning and still nothing. I was there today, but when FTP'd the file is not pointing to the pics. It's just white with black exclamations and I need to end this job for the client.
This is the script I pasted in the website: <code><script src="monoslideshow/swfobject.js" mce_src="monoslideshow/swfobject.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <div id="monoSlideshow2"> <p><strong>Please install Flash and turn on Javascript.</strong></p> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ var so = new SWFObject("monoslideshow/monoslideshow.swf", "SOmonoSlideshow", "100%", "400", "7", "#1f1f1f"); so.addParam("base", "monoslideshow/"); so.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); so.addVariable("showLogo", "false"); so.addVariable("showVersionInfo","false"); so.addVariable("dataFile","monoslideshow2.xml"); so.write("monoSlideshow2"); // ]]> </script></code>
This is the beginning of script in Monoslideshow2.xml
<img src="albertr.jpg" title="Albert Sheet Metal Hook" description="Dimensions: 24 x 25 CM (HxW) Product#: Red g040"/> <img src="albertbl.jpg" title="Albert Sheet Metal Hook" description="Dimensions: 24 x 25 CM (HxW) Product#: Black g041"/> <img src="albertjr.jpg" title="Albert Jr. Adjustable Arm Hook" etc etc etc and then...............
There are four albums in the gallery and only one picture, "aframe" is showing up. Please help as this web has been officially launched around the world for this client.
1) Watch your use ampersands in xml. “Doll & Playhouses” may kick out an xml error. Change all instances to “&” I did a quick check of your monoslideshow2.xml with opera and it kicked it back with xml errors.
2) Make sure the paths on your server are correctly matched with your xml. Upper and lowercase matter on most servers (linux, unix, ix-etc), which can catch you up if you’re developing on Windows.
I had the ampersands in my Monoslisdeshow2.xml as the description for "Dolls & Playhouses". Then the images folder had UPPERCASE filenames. So I changed all images to lowercase and voila! it worked. Thank you soooooo much for your help. SITEmedia has left the building! MSS is a wonderful product. Thank you!!!