Unable to Play Flash in SharePoint 2010 Error

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nWhile working with SharePoint 2010, one issue came into picture was like I was not able to play flash animation files (.swf) in SP 2010 environment directly. This was not the case when we work with SharePoint 2007.

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nWe can use swfobject.embed script to play flash directly in SharePoint 2007, but when same is done in SharePoint 2010 then flash does not get displayed at all.. Why??

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nAfter some search on google / bing I came to know that this is something related with security and so SharePoint blocks some files

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nSo to solve this and put more focus on the settings what you are doing I would like to put this in summary

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nVery first thing you should check that you have referred the main jQuery file or not? (you can check, in your custom master page or page layout or custom control)

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n Because after discussing with a designer I came to know that swf object works with jQuery main file dependency

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nThen second thing to be verified and important

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nGo to central administration > click on Manage Web Applications > select your web application and select General Settings from ribbon

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nIn browser file handling section there are two radio buttons..

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  1. Strict : when this option is selected then SharePoint prevents automatic the execution of files which content creators upload
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nWhen we try to see the HttpResponce of the web page which has flash on it with this option selected then we get something like this

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  1. Permissive : when this option is selected then SharePoint allows automatic download and execution of files
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nAnd If we try to see HttpResponce of page having flash with these settings then we get like this

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nThis is it.. This worked for me at least J

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nI hope this helps someone and you are able to see flash animation to your SharePoint 2010 site now

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