Embeding video on publish page

This guide explain how to embed video on the publish page.

Embeding YouTube or Google Video on publish page is fairly straight forward, simply follow steps below:

1. Upload your video to YouTube or Google 2. Once your video is live, copy embed code provided:

3. Log-in to Claromentis, edit the page you would like to embed the video.

4. Switch to source mode and paste the code as shown

5. Submit, finish and check in your page.

This article is prepared to provide a quick guide how to upload flash video which usually generated using software such as Camtasia, or Macromedia Captivate to a publish page within Claromentis.

Due to complexity and necessary javascript files, standard publish upload SWF functionality within publish cannot be used. There are 2 steps involved:

1. Upload video separately using FTP
2. Create iframe in publish page

1. Use FTP client upload the entire video folder into folder on the web server for example:

 /videos

2. Test your video by opening directly on the browser and take note of the URL for example

 http://yourintranet/videos/camtasia/

3. Create iframe in publish page by going to publish and edit a page as usual

4. Switch to source mode and create iframe code for example:

 
<iframe src="/videos/camtasia/index.html" frameborder="0" width="600" height="400" scrolling="no">
</iframe>

Depending the size of the movie, width and height valude can be edited.

This following step has to be performed by System Administrator with access to the file system.

Step 1: Download and extract Step 2: Upload this file to the Claromentis web server preferably under

/videos 

The video has to be in *.flv format and this can be uploaded anywhere on the system preferably under

/video

The video then can be embedded to the publish page by switching to the source mode and paste this following code. make sure you change the path to the actual video (/videos/yourvideohere.flv) You can also change the size of the video by changing height and width parameters on both object and value.

<object height="270" width="360" class="playerpreview" data="player_flv.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param value="player_flv.swf" name="movie" />
<param value="flv=/videos/yourvideohere.flv&amp;width=360&amp;height=270&amp;showstop=1&amp;bgcolor1=ffffff&amp;bgcolor2=ffffff&amp;playercolor=b5bac4&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showiconplay=1" name="FlashVars" /> </object>

If you have video or audio in these format:

Quicktime (mov) Windows Media File (wmv) MPEG4 Video (mp4) MP3 (mp3) DivX/XVID (avi) WAV (wav)

The best way is to link them on your publish page allowing user to download and play them using popular media player.

1. Create text for example

Watch my video here

2. Highlight the text and click “insert/edit link” as indicated

3. Click “Browse Server” to open media browser

4. Use the upload tool located at the bottom of the media browser to upload the media file

5. Once it’s uploaded click on the media file you would like to link to and click “OK”

6. Submit the page and don’t forget to check-in the page after editing.