Hello,

All my videos are hosted on a third party server and I would like to use a link field to call them. It seems the link field can be used to call videos in a standalone way, but if I want to use a field collection (with title and poster image), the video must be a media field.

Is it possible to use a link field instead of a media field within the collection ?

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Easyone commented

I managed to do it by adding a test on $item[$key]['uri'] in theme.inc and replacing the media select box by a link field select box in the module file.

It works but it's a dirty hack. I hope to see an official solution soon.

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jamesbenison commented

This is high on the priority list of todos.

I made major changes in the way the carousel is handled in the dev version. I want to be sure that is working okay before adding this feature.

Links with field collection will probably get incorporated into alpha7.

Easyone’s picture

Easyone commented

Thank you for your answer.

I'll use my hack until this release, it will do the trick.

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jamesbenison commented

Just to give you a heads up, because so few people are using the current dev I will probably just incorporate it there. In fact I've already started getting links added.

That way people will be motivated to try the dev. And I'll know it works before I tag it.