MediaFront does not work in a View

In D7:

Firstly go to Structure > Presets

And make sure you have a preset setup. You will see this name in the views formatter when you come to setup the field - if it's not there then the preset isn't setup! (see attached image).

Then in your view I found that I had to have the field that actually held the file content (the filefield), before the mediafront field, kind of like you would do if you were going to rewrite the output of a field, you need the field before the one that is doing the re-writing.

I was then able to create a block that displayed the video player.

Are you using a view to output this - strangely mine only seems to work when the style is set to "Unformatted"?

I do have a content type so maybe you should try adding one.

I think you need one with a:

filefield Field
Media Player FIeld

I am using views to output my video's so I'm not sure the display settings need altering - here is my setup.

I need to update the tutorials because you no longer need to add any field to get MediaFront to work with views. All you need to do is set the style of your block or page to Media Player, and then select your preset. It will then show your view with the media player you selected.

Hope this helps.

Travis.

One thing that this may be...

I have already committed a fix for this, but one thing that the old version of MediaFront for Drupal 7 requires is for you to add "Node: Nid" to your view fields ( and set it as hidden if you like ).

So, try adding "Node: Nid" as a field in your view and see if you have better luck. If so, then with the latest DEV version, this should be fixed.

Please let me know.

Thanks,

Travis.

anyone get this working yet?

not sure the instructions above make much sense, travist says:

- select Style (now called Format in D7) as MediaPlayer
- add NID as a field

BUT i get MediaPlayer format stating i can't add fields (which is another issue).

anyway, played around with this a lot.. but still no luck.. i get player with throbber only in my view block (full node plays fine)

changing title and changing this to a bug to highlight the issue better.

My apologies for the confusion.. Mediafront certainly does work with Views setup and I need to spend some time updating documentation to reflect the changes that have been made with the module and its views integration. Basically everything is controlled by setting the View style to be Media Player where you can then select the preset within that style. That is all that is really needed to get the player to show up within a view, so no field necessary.

hey Travis, as in email i just sent you.. the issue is 2 things:

- what you are suggesting doesn't actually work

- even if it does; not being able to add fields is a huge limitation (but in the version i have, i have 2 formats available (you keep saying Style but i think you mean Format, unless there is a Style in D7 Views somewhere and that is the part i am missing here) and the Media Player Advanced "format" does seem to allow adding fields (but also doesn't work)

I am also having this issue - whether I just put a MediaFront Player field into a view or use either the MediaPlayer or MediaPlayer Advanced Format for the view, the actual video content from the node does not load into the player. I tried using Content: Nid as a source, as well as Content: Video (the media field itself).

i think it works with Unformatted fields. I don't think it works with any of the Media formats.

So just an unformatted field with a URL for a video will work?

http://screencast.com/t/qGee76pga7K7

Ah, I see what you mean...in my case, I was trying to add them to a Views Slideshow, so that doesn't help me, I think. I will keep looking into it.