Video in Edit+

(Tom Chadwin) #1

Hello all

 

Can Edit+ users insert Youtube (or other) video, as EES users can?

 

Thanks

 

Tom

(Tom Chadwin) #2

Anyone?

 

Tom

(Nic Hubbard) #3

Anyone?

 

Tom

 

I didn't see anything in the manuals about this. If there isn't a button for it in the Editor, then it must not be supported.

 

It is only in EES because that uses the standard Matrix WYSIWYG, correct?

(Anthony Barnes) #4

 

I didn't see anything in the manuals about this. If there isn't a button for it in the Editor, then it must not be supported.

 

It is only in EES because that uses the standard Matrix WYSIWYG, correct?

 

That's right. It's something that has to be coded as an addition in the new Viper WYSIWYG editor so it's not there yet, but it with enough demand perhaps it could be something added in the future.

#5

Demand is here! It will be so much simpler for users  to be able to use the YouTube button. At the moment with our version of EES there is a bug with having to auto play. We have it disabled from our EES users so at the moment they create a raw container and place the code in.

 

We are upgrading to EES plus very soon =)  Please  magically include this.

(Tom Chadwin) #6

Seconded - we also had the autostart bug in EES, and have since upgraded to Edit+. Video really is needed.

 

Thanks

 

Tom

(Bart Banda) #7

It is actually really easy to embedd a youtube video with your own custom options using the raw html div block (or even using the WYSIWYG div block and using the </> source option to see the HTML editor.

 

Using the WYSIWYG editor and the </> source option actually gives you a preview of the youtube video as soon as you insert the embed code and close the HTML editor.

 

You can easily change width and height of the video in the iframe tag code, and then you can easily add text before and/or after the video in the same WYSIWYG block. 

#8

Hey Bart - yep it is easy for users that are HTML savy and understand what you mean when you say have a look at the source editor.

 

Our users should really never ever have to look at the code view to edit content.

There are a handful of our editors that can that can but most of our 400 editors are admin assistants.

(Robin Shi) #9

My colleague set up the way using metadata filed which provides youtube video ID, then in the parsefile wrapping the ID with iFrame tag etc. Of course you can do in other ways, like paintlayout or nested in a standard pages, asset listings, it also helps for consistant page layout.

#10

Oooh thanks Robin I hadn’t thought of that! Thanks so much for responding guys!

(Emily Inglis) #11

Hi Fuzzi - I either embed the code that YouTube Share gives, or we actually use the method mentioned by Robin on a special type of pages. We are one of the clients that this was setup for, and I think it's an excellent way. Especially as for us it was a set location we wanted it to always be in, so it was coded into the Paint Layout as the position, and then just the video ID in the metadata.

 

Advantage of this way, with the Paint Layout positioning & then the Metadata (and the keyword replacement for the field), is that is no video is attached, using Conditional Statements in the Paint Layout, we can specify to display something else (such as the Thumbnail image).

#12

Thanks so much Emily for sharing =) You guys are ace