[F8] Control multiple movies with same navigation

[jaysunburgess]

Hi all. Been a few weeks since I've been on the forum.

What I am trying to do:

I have a movie (doesn't everyone lol) and I have a navigation panel on the left. I have several (like 70) smaller movies I wish to control with the navigation. I am loading each of these smaller movies every 5 frames with empty.loadMovie script. I need to be able to refer to each movie as they are loaded.

Basically the function of this project is a digital archive of employees. Each movie represents an employee. The navigation is static and has several selection such as General Info, Resume, Schooling, ect. The movie loads, the user enters a password, they are presented with a dropdown and from there can choose which employee they need information on. If they choose Scott Harper the navigation would need to refer to the frames inside the loaded movie to go to the different selections (General, Resume, etc) for Scott. If another employee is selected from the dropdown the navigation should work for whomever is selected.

Is there a better way to do this? I am using combobox listings for the employee selection, spacing the individual employees every 5 frames and loading a separate, very basic, movie for each employee which pulls dynamically from a text file to populate the information. The employee movies will be 5 frames where each frame represents the information from each tab on the navigation. I am trying to make this very simple for someone else with little FLASH knowledge to add more employees to in the future.

Thanks for any comments or suggestions.

[kortex]

ok want to make sure I am reading this correctly. You are hard coding 5 frames in each clip and there is one clip per employee meaning that if new employees are added, a new clip with these five frames would have to be created, correct?

[jaysunburgess]

Thanks for the reply kortex.

You've got the idea for sure. Let me elaborate a bit.

I have 70 individual employee clips containing 5 frames. Each frame has information which coinsides with the navigation in the main film. General Info would be frame 1 in each of the 70 employee movies, Resume = frame 2, School = frame 3, etc.

My initial thought would be the ease of use for someone who does not know FLASH. I figured I could create a "master employee movie" where someone could reproduce any additional employee clips they would need, reference them in the master and boom, done.