Hey everyone! I've just assumed responsibility for a DotNetNuke website that is using the Flash Image Rotator plugin. I am currently in the process of transitioning the site to a new web host.

Most everything is going well so far, but I'm having trouble getting the Image Rotator working.

The module displays, and it does load Flash, but it displays nothing.

If I edit the module settings and click "refresh" or "preview," instead of loading a preview at the bottom of the page, it takes me back to the home page, and I get an exception in my event log which I've pasted below.

Any thoughts?

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 ModuleId: -1
ModuleDefId: -1
FriendlyName:
ModuleControlSource:
AssemblyVersion: 5.2.1
PortalID: 0
PortalName: {omitted}
UserID: 1
UserName: host
ActiveTabID: 146
ActiveTabName: HOME
RawURL: /home/ctl/edit/mid/395.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://{omitted}/home/ctl/edit/mid/395.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.89 Safari/532.5
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: 5aabb59a-affb-4e62-8a3c-404acf372ac3
InnerException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: DataSprings.Modules.FlashImageRotator.EditFlashImageRotator.savePreview
StackTrace:
Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DataSprings.Modules.FlashImageRotator.EditFlashImageRotator.savePreview() --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Source:
Server Name: WEB24

 

HI, how many images have you added to the image rotator? Can you try adding at least two or three images first and see if it works as opposed to just clicking on the preview? -- David

that little clue gave me the hint to create a new instance of the module and try and reconfigure it exactly like the previous one. It was then I realized that a couple of the images were missing. I put the images back in place and the original instance worked fine!

I'm not sure if I'm using the latest version of the module, but if this hasn't been fixed, and any of the developers read this, I would highly recommend a more graceful means of failure when it can't find an image.

Thanks for helping me brainstorm, though