Hi all,

I have recently inherited a DotNetNuke site.  So far my experience is limited to modifying content in already-existing panels/modules, and modifying a few Host setting.  The DotNetNuke version of this site is 04.03.05.

I have embedded a SWF movie in one of the panels, which I believe is a module called "Text/HTML".  Full details of this module are:

Module Name: Text/HTML
Description: This module renders a snippet of HTML or text. The Html/Text module includes an edit page, which allows authorized users to the HTML or text snippets directly. The snippets are stored in the SQL database.
Version: 03.03.00
Upgraded?: 04.08.01

My Flash SWF file contains a button that, when clicked, runs:   getURL("mailto:firstname.lastname@domain.com?subject=Advertising");

In a regular HTML file, this SWF works fine.  In the Text/HTML module, the cursor changes to a "hand" in IE when the mouse is over the button, but nothing happens when you click the button.

I tried changing the URL to a regular page URL (eg: www.domain.com/mypage.html) in case it was an issue with mailto... but it still didn't work.

I then tried both of the above without using a button, and instead adding the hyperlink directly to the text in movieclip.  This didn't work either.

I am using Flash 8.  I tried all of the above in Flash 8, and then again back-saving in Flash v5.  Nothing has worked.

Can anyone tell me how to proceed from here?  I had a look at digFlash, but that only works for DotNetNuke 4.5.5+.

Any help is VERY much appreciated.  Thanks

Chris

As Sebastian said, I'd first concentrate on upgrading your version of DNN (to DNN version 4.6.2 at a minimum, preferably all the way up to 4.9.5). 

PLEASE NOTE:  If you upgrade you'll definitely want to follow the recommended upgrade path (not mentioned in Sebastian's checklist, strangely).  See the suggested upgrade path here:  http://www.willstrohl.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/102/Suggested-DotNetNuke-Site-Upgrade-Path-s.aspx

An interim option would be to place your Flash in it's own plain-jane HTML file and use an iFrame (either via the Iframe module or just drop your own iframe tag in a Text/HTML module) to insert it into your DNN site.
 
Good luck!
-mamlin