Is there any way to embed multiple galleries on a website

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I have been trying to embed two galleries on my website using Lightroom 2. I have been successful in embedding one, but because all my pages have to be in the root folder (due to my flash navigation menu).. I can not get the lightroom galleries to show up differently. Since when you export them, they use the same files... it will only use the xml file it sees first.. and you can't change the swf in the different galleries to look at a different xml with a different file name... The only thing I could think to do, is to put each gallery inside a separate folder and separate the two galleries entirely, but the .swf files that lightroom exports must be in the root folder to find the resources folder... so unless I totally trash my very elaborate flash navigation menus.... I can't embed more than one gallery... I can't change the code to embed them in different folders to keep the galleries separate. For some reason Lightrooms code is written in the swf file that it has to be in that same folder... grrrr.. it's frustrating me... because I can have one gallery, but not two on my website.. There has to be a fix.
 
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I have been trying to embed two galleries on my website using Lightroom 2. I have been successful in embedding one, but because all my pages have to be in the root folder (due to my flash navigation menu).. I can not get the lightroom galleries to show up differently. Since when you export them, they use the same files... it will only use the xml file it sees first.. and you can't change the swf in the different galleries to look at a different xml with a different file name... The only thing I could think to do, is to put each gallery inside a separate folder and separate the two galleries entirely, but the .swf files that lightroom exports must be in the root folder to find the resources folder... so unless I totally trash my very elaborate flash navigation menus.... I can't embed more than one gallery... I can't change the code to embed them in different folders to keep the galleries separate. For some reason Lightrooms code is written in the swf file that it has to be in that same folder... grrrr.. it's frustrating me... because I can have one gallery, but not two on my website.. There has to be a fix.
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I can't put them in different folders if you read my post correctly... When you put the entire contents of the gallery into folders, they will not display... the code in which lightroom has in its swf file will not allow me to embed if the galleries are not in the root folder of the page.... try it for yourself... and as you know, you can't edit the swf unless you have the .fla file....

I can not move the .html file to another folder either or my flash website will not work correctly... I have a complicated but nice menu stystem the requires all my html files to be in the root folder.. So how can I embed the lightroom galleries into my web pages?

I have tried renaming the .swf files, but the swf file looks at the resources folder and if you have multiple galleries, they look for the same .xml files... so you MUST put them into folders to separate the two... BUT lightroom galleries will not display because something about the code in the swf doesn't let you move it from the root of where the html page that you have the swf embedded.... If I had some type of .fla file to edit... I could easily fix it.... but.... I don't....

So with that information AGAIN, possibly a bit more clear.... does anyone have any REAL suggestions? I will provide some code and what I've tried if someone actually wants to help, rather than just say something like... don't have two then.. I just do not want to have to build these galleries everytime I add new pictures, which for me is weekly... So I'm trying to build something that will save me time down the road... Feel free to check out what I have so far online, but I have several sites build on my computer trying to solve my problem.

www.fauxsandfinishes.com

Thank you.
 
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Could you keep your galleries each in an individual folder, but pull out the index.html file for each gallery into the root, edit the file to change the resource links to reflect the file move, then give each index.html file a unique name?
 
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Hi... new to this forum and have the same problem however I can't get as far as tlk. I don't know what I"m doing really.

I built my site using dreamweaver and have about 2' to 3' different galleries to put in this site because it's an art & sculpture gallery. So when people click on an artist's name I want the gallery (.swf) to display.

Lightroom creates it's own index page but i already have a page created in dreamweaver for a specific artist. So I'm at a loss. When I insert the flash file, then preview in browser, it can't find the gallery images. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
 
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That's great aussiedee - now if you posted your solution, it might help everyone else too! What did you do?
 
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Thanks aussiedee!
 
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