Question Re: Flash Player 10.1 in Technology Q&A

Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:09:53 GMT

Anyone test Flash Player 10.1 with Xcelsius 2008 generated SWFs yet?

http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/06/adobe-flash-player-10-1-arrives

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:16:57 GMT

I have just had to upgrade from fp 10 to fp 10.1 and all exported dashboards to powerpoint have stopped working, they show blank. Anyone have a work around or fix?

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:42:32 GMT

Is there a way to unistall FP and go back to an older release? I am having the same issue and I have a demo on Friday! I am in full panic mode.

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:56:52 GMT

Darren & Larry, that is very disappointing news, and I'm sorry you guys are experiencing that! You can get older versions of the Flash Player here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html

Let me know if you have issues with the uninstall instructions on that page.

Does anyone know if Xcelsius 2008 Flash Player 10.1 support is in the works or not?

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:12:41 GMT

OK...so I uninstalled the flashplayer and then ran the adobe uninstaller. There was a link in one of the other forums to adobe flash plaey 10.0 and I got it installed. I have had to re-deploy the dashboards to ppt. The existing ones were hosed. This seems to have fixed the issue, however, I have other dashboards in PPT that I do not have the XLF files for and I can't get them to come back.

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:32:21 GMT


> ...I have had to re-deploy the dashboards to ppt. The existing ones were hosed. This seems to have fixed the issue, however, I have other dashboards in PPT that I do not have the XLF files for and I can't get them to come back.

That's odd. Sounds like you might still have remnants of FP 10.1, or perhaps you have both 10 and 10.1 installed. Have you tried running the "hosed" PPT documents on a machine where Flash Player 10 was never upgraded to 10.1 in the first place? (Trying to isolate the problem.)

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:45:51 GMT

Has there been an official word on this issue with Flash 10.1? This essentially breaks all of the dashboards we have created over the years for our clients and is very bad for our business. I can't tell all of the historical users of our dashboards to downgrade to 10.0 - there are way too many individuals.

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:05:21 GMT


> Has there been an official word on this issue with Flash 10.1? This essentially breaks all of the dashboards we have created over the years for our clients and is very bad for our business. I can't tell all of the historical users of our dashboards to downgrade to 10.0 - there are way too many individuals.

Of course I'm not from or affiliated with SAP, so take this with a grain of salt, but I believe Darren & Larry could still be isolated cases. I'd also like to see the secondary issue Larry reported (continued wonky Flash Player behavior even after rolling back to FP 10.1) isolated.

Has anyone else encountered problems? I planned to do some testing on my own as I have to roll out a product in a few weeks, but haven't gotten a chance yet.

Can someone from SAP please comment in this thread about whether or not Xcelcius 2008 SWFs are supported and working under Flash Player 10.1? Thanks!

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:59:38 GMT

Hi everyone,

We can confirm that this is an issue, sorry for the delay in replying but we had to do some additional testing and found that this issue is not specific to an Xcelsius SWF embedded into a PPT but any Adobe Flex 2 SWF (which Xcelsius is based on) or Adobe Flex 3 SWF.

So the Xcelsius dev team is following up with Adobe to see what can be done to address this issue which seems to be a change in behavior in Flash Player 10.1.

For now if you want to embed a SWF into a PPT you may need to go back to an earlier version of the Flash Player than 10.1 (before you export to PPT).

Regards

Matt

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:01:30 GMT

Hi Matt, Any ideas when the solution might be in place? I have tried going back to flash player 9 and creating my presentation in ppt, but it still doesn't work, so I am a bit stuck.

Any more info would be appreciated.

Nick

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:28:49 GMT

We are also currently having this issue with Flash 10.1. Though you downgrade into old version of Flash still the problem is there. So what we are doing now while waiting for fix from Adobe/SAP regarding this is to export into flash and opening the dashboard (SWF file) through internet explorer. For the machines that has not been upgraded into new flash there is no problem. Sooner or later we will still need to upgrade into new flash version so a fix on this must be generated soon. If anybody got any fix please post it so we will be trying that and soon this issue will be closed.

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:34:47 GMT


> We are also currently having this issue with Flash 10.1. Though you downgrade into old version of Flash still the problem is there. So what we are doing now while waiting for fix from Adobe/SAP regarding this is to export into flash and opening the dashboard (SWF file) through internet explorer. For the machines that has not been upgraded into new flash there is no problem. Sooner or later we will still need to upgrade into new flash version so a fix on this must be generated soon. If anybody got any fix please post it so we will be trying that and soon this issue will be closed.

(Emphasis above is mine)

I am confused. My understanding is, if we continue to generate projects while Flash Player 10.0 is installed everything should be fine for any users/customers running FP 10.0. It's only when SWFs are generated while FP 10.1 is installed, or when any SWFs are accessed by users who have FP 10.1 installed, that there is a problem.

Am I misunderstanding something here?

(Of course, even if this is all true, it's still an enormous problem since more and more of our users and customers are upgrading to FP 10.1 every day.)

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:30:42 GMT

I am also having problems. This is a real disaster! What now?

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:36:39 GMT

Matt,

How is everything going with adobe? I'm hoping this gets fixed for powerpoint, keeping my fingers crossed!

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:39:59 GMT

Can you please tell us how can we download Adobe flash Player 10.00 after uninstalling 10.1? Every time I try, the adobe page takes me to the latest version, which is the one that doesn't work....

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:34:16 GMT


> Can you please tell us how can we download Adobe flash Player 10.00 after uninstalling 10.1? Every time I try, the adobe page takes me to the latest version, which is the one that doesn't work....

Did you click on the first link under "Archived Versions" on the page I linked above? http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:16:53 GMT

Hi everyone,

The Xcelsius development team had already opened a bug with Adobe and are trying to follow up with them on this issue...

As of right now we are not sure what is causing this issue with SWFs embedded into a PPT and Flash Player 10.1, all we know (which I posted earlier) is that it affects any Adobe Flex 2 or Adobe Flex 3 SWF and not just Xcelsius SWFs.

As soon as I hear any more on this I will post the information on this thread...

Regards

Matt

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:28:49 GMT

Thanks Forto. I did, clicked on the 10.0 and get a series of folders without any indication as to which to click on or what to do next. Can you help?

Thanks

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:07:52 GMT

Gunderic, in the root of the zip download ("fp10_archive.zip"), there is a text file ("readme.txt") that lists all the files in the download, broken down by Flash Player version and then by operating system. Hopefully it should be clear from consulting that list which installer is the right one for your situation.

Re: Flash Player 10.1

Former Member — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:15:21 GMT

Thanks for the info, Matt. Is there a public link for the issue?