This walkthrough quickly demonstrates how to build a slideshow using SlideShowPro for Flash and SlideShowPro Director. If you are installing Director on your own web server (and are not a hosting subscriber), Director must be installed before following this walkthrough. See Installation for instructions, then return here.
Go to the Quick Start Guide for SlideShowPro for Flash or SlideShowPro for Lightroom and complete step one, two and three. When finished, come back here and continue.
Login to your installation of Director. You'll land on the "Snapshot" page. Click the "Create a new album" shortcut link in the left column (see left). Give your album a title, and make sure "Edit album after it has been created" is selected. Then click "Create album." Your album will be created, and Director will load the "Upload" page for your new album. Browse and select one or more assets on your local machine, then click "Okay." Director will confirm your file list in the right column. Click "Upload" to confirm.
After uploading, click on the "Settings" sub-navigation link to go to the Settings page. Upon arrival, look for the "Publishing" box in the upper-right. There will be a label displaying "XML File Path" with a button to its right labeled "Copy." Click the "Copy" button. The XML File Path for your album has been copied to your system clipboard.
If you are using SlideShowPro for Flash, return to Flash and select your instance of SlideShowPro for Flash on the Stage. Open the Component Inspector panel (Window > Component Inspector). At the top under the "DATA" header is a field labeled XML File Path. Erase "images.xml" and paste in the URL you copied from Director. Lastly, below XML File Path, set XML File Type to "Director."
If you are using SlideShowPro for Lightroom, return to Lightroom and scroll to the bottom of the template edit panels until you see the "Data" section. Delete the default "images.xml" value assigned to XML File Path, and paste in the URL you copied from Director. Lastly, below XML File Path, set XML File Type to "Director." When complete, the live preview of SlideShowPro should update inside Lightroom with your Director content.
If using SlideShowPro for Flash, select File > Publish Preview > Flash. A SWF will be published, and after a short delay your images will load from Director.
If using SlideShowPro for Lightroom, click the large "Export" button at the bottom of the template edit panels. Select an area to export your slideshow to, and click "Okay." When complete, open the index.html document inside in your web browser. Your Director content will then display.
In both scenarios, Director will publish optimized copies of your content to fit your slideshow and cache them thereafter so they won't require regenerating. For this reason you can expect your first Director connection to take a little longer than subsequent ones.
Feel free now to change the size of SlideShowPro, and any of its options. Any requisite content that is required (for example, using the "Thumbnails" NAVIGATION/Link Appearance instead of "Numbers") will be auto-published by Director.
