Videos

Owned by Zachary Restifo
Last updated: Jun 21, 2021
2 min read

Only videos from the YSM Media Library, YouTube, or Vimeo can be featured on your page(s).

The following instructions provide information on how to insert a single video into the center of your page vis Tridion.

 

Table of Contents

 

Creating a Media Library Component

Before adding a video from Youtube or Vimeo to a page, you have to create a Media Library component.

Click New Component (blue) to begin creating a Media Library component.

 

In the Building Blocks folder of your respective website, click New Component (highlighted in blue above) in the Create tab (highlighted in yellow above) of the navigation bar.

You will be taken to a new page for creating the component (shown below):

 

Creating a Media Library component.

 

  1. Enter an appropriate Name for your component.

  2. Choose Media Library from the Schema drop down menu (highlighted in yellow above).

  3. Media Library ID: Enter the appropriate ID number from the Media Library for the video.

  4. Select the radio button next to video.

  5. Save and Close the component (highlighted in blue above).

Once you have saved the component, you are ready to add the video to a page.

 

Adding the Media Library Component to a Page

After creating the Media Library component for your video, you can add the component to a page.

  1. Navigate in the Root folder to the page you'd like to add a video to and double-click to open the page.

  2. In the window that opens, click the Component Presentations tab.

  3. Click Insert at the bottom left of the page window.

  4. Browse to the Media Library component you created and click to select it.

  5. From the Component Template dropdown, select the Video Player (Main Column) template to feature the video in the center of the page.

  6. Click the Insert button at the bottom right, then the Close button.

  7. Save and Close the page, then you are ready to publish.

 

Example of a Media Library Video on a Page

The below screenshot shows a Media Library video, as it appears on a page:

 

The video populates in the center of the page, and includes information associated with the video from the Media Library.

 

Mixed Media Galleries

In Tridion, you can also add videos to a gallery using a List component.

For more instructions on adding videos to a gallery, visit these instructions:

Large Image Galleries