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sc.embedder

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This packages contains a Dexterity-based content type that allows you to embedded content (such as photos or videos) from third parties into your Plone site.

You can easily embed content from Flickr, SlideShare, SoundCloud, Vimeo, Wikipedia, YouTube, and many other supporting the oEmbed format especification.

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Installation

To enable this product in a buildout-based installation:

  1. Edit your buildout.cfg and add sc.embedder to the list of eggs to install :

    [buildout]
    ...
    eggs =
        sc.embedder
  2. If you are using Plone 4.1 you may need to extend a Dexterity known good set (KGS) to make sure that you get the right versions of the packages that make up Dexterity:

    [buildout]
    ...
    extends =
        http://good-py.appspot.com/release/dexterity/1.2.1

After updating the configuration you need to run ''bin/buildout'', which will take care of updating your system.

Go to the 'Site Setup' page in a Plone site and click on the 'Add-ons' link.

Check the box next to sc.embedder` and click the 'Activate' button.

Note

You may have to empty your browser cache and save your resource registries in order to see the effects of the product installation.

Use

Once the product is installed you will note that you are available to add a Embedder content type. When you attempt to add an item you will see the fields:

  • Content URL
  • Description
  • Embed html code
  • Width
  • Height
  • Player position
  • Body text
  • Alternate content
  • Image

In the URL field you must put the url of you content. Like:

http://vimeo.com/17914974

and then click the load button. This will bring automatically some data of the element from the provider to the form. It depends on each provider what data it going to add. But generally the fields title, description, width, height and embed html fields are the one to be filled.

Note: Some providers only support width, height and title. So the fields like description or html embed code are necessarily to be filled manually. This information is normally encountered in the page where the url is pointing to.

Layout

With player position field you can set where the embed multimedia is going to be render regarding the body text. You have the options top, bottom, left and right.

Body text will be the main information that will describe the content.

The alternate content is to give a description or transcription to an individual that is no able to hear. In the layout this is hidden by default. There is a link called alternate content that will show or hide again the content of this field by clicking on it.

The Image field is just to assign an image to the object that will give a quick visual description of the content. The idea is to show it in listing views or covers.

Providers

This product use collective.oembed. You can check its documentation to see a list of them.

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