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    I know I’d use Ditto, but I have a couple of questions on the best way to dev it out. It would be exclusively media centered. All our sermons (a/v) and supplemental docs would reside there.

    1. I’m used to Evo, but would Revo be better suited for this?
    2. I want to tag all files to ease the filtering. Can I set up a TV to select from a dropdown/checkboxes of keywords, and also allow an editor to input another keyword if it’s not already in the "array". One that would be added to the choices when they input it?
    3. Can a series of checkboxes be made that will allow the filtering? When a user selects a couple of boxes (say, "Temptation", "Greed", and "Audio"), it would show the sermons with those attributes.Is this doable?
    4. I know how to do simple conditional calls on ditto, that would allow me to hide a link for a downloadable pdf, if the TV-pdf link is left blank...but I want to have multiple "downloadables" available for each sermon - how would the conditional be set up for that...make sense?
    5. Anyone have a tutorial for putting ditto output into a tabbed content interface? Mainly for sermon series...I want a user to be able to select the tab with the week #, to see the data on that specific sermon.

    Thanks guys, for any help or advice.
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      guess no one had ideas/advice huh ...figured out most myself.
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        Missed this one.

        I use JQuery, with Flowplayer and their JQuery Tools library for all of this sort of thing. Ditto can be set up to generate the output you need, and the JQuery Tools libraries take care of the tabs and whatever other goodies you need. Flowplayer is a really nice unobtrusive player that doesn’t clutter up your page with non-validating junk.

        They seem to be down at the moment, but here’s the URL for later... http://flowplayer.org/
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          Thanks Susan...

          Here is the buildout of a sermon series page, using ditto, JQ, and the JW Player:
          http://fbcjax.tv/sermons/paralyzed-by-fear

          I need to learn PHx - since I’m limited on conditionals with ditto without know it. Seems awesome.

          Really like flowplayer, and initially wanted to use them, but it seemed difficult to create the clickable links to load the video/audio files. The example on the FP page (http://flowplayer.org/demos/scripting/anchors.html - I keep getting 503 errors when I visit the fp.org site, though..weird and I found out - common) for doing so, shows using ID instead of class for triggering the movie load. I couldn’t tweak the JS for to use class. I wish the page would come up, since I can’t remember the exact issue...