Best practices to add single or multiple you tube videos
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There's a few ways around this and probably some packages that can help (not sure haven't checked, but bound to be something!). The way I've done it before is used the relatedLinks datatype and pop the URL's to the videos in there. If they want more than that, such as meta data supporting each video, you could either knock up a custom datatype which is a bit more complicated and will take a little longer, or create a document type to support the meta data - so have a URL field, text field, target etc., and allow that doc type to be a child of the type of node you're creating. They can then add as many videos as they like to each page (might be worth having a folder to contain them in, so a 'Video' folder, for example, which is attached to the web page, then the videos attached to this ie.
About Us->Videos->Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 etc.
Obviously this way you'd have to make sure any navigation code/lists etc exclude this doc type by default from appearing - but it's a common method and works well within the Umbraco structure.
Double check the media picker that Matt Brailsford wrote doesn't already do all this - can't recall the package name off hand but it's worth checking out.
Best practices to add single or multiple you tube videos
Hi ,
I have developed several websites with youtube suppport , but still cant find the best way of adding youtube videos on the backend. Any advice or a clear indication of how best to deal with youtube videos would be most appreciated. I have scenarios when client wants to add multiple youtube videos with text on same page or sometime link videos to different pages.
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Ah timberlandboots. Seems to be very busy today :/
There's a few ways around this and probably some packages that can help (not sure haven't checked, but bound to be something!). The way I've done it before is used the relatedLinks datatype and pop the URL's to the videos in there. If they want more than that, such as meta data supporting each video, you could either knock up a custom datatype which is a bit more complicated and will take a little longer, or create a document type to support the meta data - so have a URL field, text field, target etc., and allow that doc type to be a child of the type of node you're creating. They can then add as many videos as they like to each page (might be worth having a folder to contain them in, so a 'Video' folder, for example, which is attached to the web page, then the videos attached to this ie.
About Us->Videos->Video 1
Video 2
Video 3 etc.
Obviously this way you'd have to make sure any navigation code/lists etc exclude this doc type by default from appearing - but it's a common method and works well within the Umbraco structure.
Double check the media picker that Matt Brailsford wrote doesn't already do all this - can't recall the package name off hand but it's worth checking out.
FYI this is also being planned, so might be worth holding off a little while longer creating any bespoke datatypes ;)
http://our.umbraco.org/contribute/releases/490/rfc/33203-Container-Document-Types
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