Comments on: Playing Flash movies (like FusionCharts) in the Notes Client? Not that simple…

By: Bill Phillips

Bill Phillips — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:03:29 +0000

There is a piece of code that was remarked out in this database that is preventing it from working. In the dbDashboard form there is a function called generateChart. in this function there is an else statement that is remarked out. remove this remark and the database should work fine. Sorry. my fault.

here is the working function:
Function generateChart(chartType As String, lyr As Integer)
uidoc.EditMode=True

Set myFlash = uidoc.GetObject(”FlashFile1″)

tempDrive$ = Curdrive$()
Set pdoc = view.GetDocumentByKey(chartType)
If Not pdoc.HasEmbedded Then Exit Function
Set body = pdoc.GetFirstItem(”rtAttachments”)
REM Get attachments
Forall att In body.EmbeddedObjects
If att.Type = EMBED_ATTACHMENT Then
filepath$ = tempDrive$ & “\” & att.Source
If FileExists(filepath$) Then
‘
Else
Call att.ExtractFile(filepath$)
‘Print filepath$ & ” extracted”
End If
End If
End Forall

myFlash.FlashVars = “&dataXML=” & doc.ChartVariables(0) & doc.ChartData(0) & doc.ChartClose(0) & “&chartWidth=1200&chartHeight=700″
myFlash.LoadMovie lyr,filepath$
myFlash.Play
End Function

By: William

William — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:57:13 +0000

Hi Bill, I emailed you. Let me know if you get my email. Thanks again.

By: Bill Phillips

Bill Phillips — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:19:48 +0000

William, send me your contact info.
to: Lotus.Developer at yahoo dot com

By: William

William — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:28:57 +0000

Oh, if anyone who got Bill’s database, can you please share with me? Thank a lot, I really need this. =)

By: William

William — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:14:09 +0000

Hi Bill, I also would love to have a look at the sample database you talked about. How may I get a copy? Thanks a lot.

By: exnico

exnico — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:10:47 +0000

bill , i will be very interested for a demo db with Fusion Charts ..

Thanks in advance

By: Macromedia Flashpaper 2

Macromedia Flashpaper 2 — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:30:31 +0000

Macromedia Flashpaper 2…

An interesting post by a bloger made me……

By: Martin Vereecken

Martin Vereecken — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:58:49 +0000

Hi Bill,

Hmmm sounds very interesting! I’d loooove to see a sample database of this! Thanks for wanting to share this!

By: Bill Phillips

Bill Phillips — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:42:40 +0000

Martin & Others,
I have working copies of the fusion charts using all notes client. No need to have a server with HTTP or starting any web service. They will run in the client using all lotus script. Drop me a line if you want a sample database. I would be glad to contribute.

Thanks,

Bill

By: Martin Vereecken

Martin Vereecken — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:06:12 +0000

Hi Mark,
Yes, I would be interested in seeing it work, if you want, you can mail me an example (martinATbeesign.be). Most of the time I’m dealing with Windows/IE customers anyway :-).
Are you the man behind the ideajam stats? I already figured they were FusionCharts. Neat implementation you did there!

By: Mark Barton

Mark Barton — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:10:56 +0000

Martin - your right about the IE problem - in fact its a windows only solution.

I have an example database which I can let you see if you want. I brought the developer licenses for Fusion Gadgest & Charts so I have a Gantt chart being populated from a task tracking Notes DB - displayed within a Notes form.

I did the graphs for the Stats page for Idea Jam -http://ideajam.net/ideajam/p/ij.nsf/statistics

Mark

By: Martin Vereecken

Martin Vereecken — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:53:19 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Mark and Tommy. Definitely a route to walk as well, I’ll give it a try. The only disadvantage I can think of now, is that it’s an IE only solution, so maybe it doesn’t has the same Flash player version issues, but it depends on IE.
Btw, Tommy, nice website you have there. Worthwile exploring when I have some spare time.

By: Tommy Valand

Tommy Valand — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:19:59 +0000

I agree with the WebBrowser Control suggestion as well, as it’s more flexible than being tied to older versions of the flash player.

Another fun thing about it is that you can pass javascript-commands (think bookmarklets) to the live WebControl-object/page (in your case, the flash-file). Example of use, “View Bar Chart”, “View Pie chart”.
(^Not sure if this is what Mark was getting at)

Example of running JS-commands to a WebControl object on the “Entering” event of a field: http://dontpanic82.blogspot.com/2007/08/sexifying-client-with-dhtml.html

Great looking charts, btw!

By: Mark Barton

Mark Barton — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:25:50 +0000

The best option is to use the Web Control so your embedding a browser rather than the Flash Object.

This means you can use standard Javascript to control the parameters for the movie.

Mark