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I'll try to explain this the best I can. If I stop making sense, sorry.

I downloaded a template from templatemonster.com and now am running into problems with the template.
I understand how to edit and change pictures and text. My problem is I'm having trouble finding things. In the library, I've already changed every company name to Lovas. But when I test the site, it still has the original company name that was on the template over Lovas.

Other things are confusing me too, but if this is cleared up, it'll help me a lot.

Sorry if I don't make sense.

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For : if you changed the library text to "Lovas" but the live SWF still shows the old name, narrow the cause with focused checks rather than re-editing everything. rightly hinted that the original string can come from places other than the visible text fields; the steps below show how to find exactly where that string lives and what to do next.

Quick file-wide search (run from the template folder). Windows:

findstr /s /i /m "OriginalCompanyName" *.*

macOS / Linux:

grep -R --line-number "OriginalCompanyName" .

If this finds the string in an .xml, .html, .as or .php file, edit that file. If nothing is found but the SWF still displays the name, proceed to the next checks.

Inside the FLA: use Flash’s Find (Edit → Find) to search timeline text and actions across the document. Double-click library symbols to "edit in place" and step through each symbol’s timeline — text can be on a nested frame you missed. Also check whether the name is a vector/bitmap (text converted to outlines or a placed image) — those won’t change if you only edit text fields. If instances on stage were swapped to a different symbol, right‑click an instance and use "Swap Symbol..." to point it to your updated asset.

If the string does not appear in source files, inspect the published SWF directly (a free decompiler such as JPEXS can list embedded strings and resources). Also confirm the HTML wrapper is loading the SWF you just published (check file path/timestamp in the <object>/<embed> tag), and force a fresh load by renaming the output SWF or adding a cache-busting query to its URL. ’s database idea only applies if the package includes server-side scripts; otherwise focus on embedded or externally loaded assets.

If these steps still don’t reveal the source, extract the offending asset with a decompiler to see whether it’s a graphic, a nested movieclip, or embedded text, then replace that asset in the FLA or the external file accordingly.

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Taking things right back to the beginning and assuming that there was at least a README or something. Have you read any of the documentation that shipped with the template? That would be my first port of call. Any decent template should come with detailed instructions on how to modify it. Or at least, one would expect it to! It's pretty shoddy if it didn't!

Also, I'm afraid that without seeing some source code, nobody here is going to be able to help you very much. And because the template is somebody elses work and therefore most likely covered by copyright (unless it's under a CC licence or something similar), you're not going to be allowed to post the source here either.

If you're having real problems, it would probably be best to either contact templatemonster or the author of the template for support.

So my advice is this:
1. Make a backup of the original template.
2. Read through any documentation that came with the template.
3. Carefully follow any instructions for modifying the template.
4. If there is no documentation, or you are having too much trouble, contact templatemonster or the author of the template for support.

Regarding the library, anything that appears in the final swf will be somewhere in the library. If you methodically trawl through the entire library and carefully replace any relevant assets you should be able to replace all of the bits you need to.

It might also be worth taking a look at the actionscript in the fla to see if there are any places where the original company's name is hard-coded, you can then replace it with your company's name.

Also look through the source code for any external files used by the template (XML, .fla's for external swfs, HTML etc.)

Other than that, I'm pretty much out of ideas!

Cheers for now,
Jas.

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First of all you will check your connection with your new company name tag. main problem is that there is no connection between database and your design view, so first you will change your design properties as per your database then in last save design template and then run it.

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