I've got .swf banners showing in the ad block quite nicely, but despite having specified a url to go to, they're not clickable. I can't figure out what I've done wrong. I followed the instructions at http://flashclicktag.com/ to put a clickTag in my flash ad, but still can't click the ads. No clicks are showing up as ever happened in the statistics, and no re-direction.

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong, or how the ads should be properly set up would be greatly appreciated!

Thx, Shawn

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sdsheridan
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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

OK, i figured this out. A subtle but important point: Creating a clickable, transparent button in flash means dropping the Alpha value for the fill and stroke colours to 0%, not having no fill and no stroke colour. The former works (and makes them transparent), the latter does not; i.e., the former gives a clickable ad, that latter does not.

Incidentally, I also had to change the "TAG" in the above-noted instructions in the actionscript to "Tag". It would be good in the documentation for this module to make it clear that in the actionscript, the variable should be "clickTag" and not any other form.

shawn

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chriscohen commented

Hi shawn. Thanks for pointing this out. In a future version of the module, "clickTag" will not be case-sensitive.

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doomed commented

From that site:

Part 4: Troubleshooting
Case Sensitivity

Did you export the SWF file for your banner for Flash version 8 or 9? These versions of Flash treat the clickTAG parameter name case sensitively. If you did not copy and paste the ActionScript code, verify that all occurrences of the parameter name are spelled exactly as clickTAG and if that does not work try a different capitalization. The standard is to use clickTAG, but your ad server might use clickTag, ClickTAG, ClickTag or some other variation. Make sure to change every occurrence of the parameter name in the ActionScript code though as they must all match exactly to work properly!

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gusanocomemuerto commented
Version: 5.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-2.x-dev

This system is completely failing for me and i can't figure out why. Clicking on .swf ads opens a new tab in my browser with the drupal page not found error page. I have gone through all of these formatting suggestions exhaustively - and this is supposed to be fixed in my version anyway. any other suggestions of what could be going wrong?