| Project: | Conference Organizing Distribution Support Modules |
| Version: | 7.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | cod_session |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs review |
Issue Summary
What do you all think about using the Media module for all Session Resources?
We could have one content type called Session Resource and use the Media Module to allow for all types of formats. Utilizing the oEmbed module we could allow session Videos, PDF's, Powerpoints or photos of the session. With oEmbed this allows the embedding of different 3rd party providers (youtube, vimeo, slideshare, flikr, scribd) without having to download each provider module. In addition this may encourage presenters to post links to external resources prior to the session.
In my use case many faculty do want to share their slides but do not want them to be downloadable. Many of them already have a Slideshare account were they post most of their slides. oEmbed and the Media module seems to have a lot of support and is the future for handling files.
Comments
#1
#2
Any thoughts to incorporating the media module and creating one Session resources content type that allows multiple file types ?
#3
#4
Here is a patch that creates the COD Session Resource Feature.
What this does is provides a content type "Session Resource". Session resource can be a video, PowerPoint slide, photos or just a PDF file. You may embed content from 3rd party providers such as Vimeo, Youtube, SlideShare, Scribd or other third party URL's.
This also provides a Session Resources View that can be filtered by Resource Type Taxonomy Term. Taxonomy terms must be added
The following Modules are required for this to work:
Media 7.x-2.x
File Entity 7.x-2.x
oEmbed 7.x-0.x
Context
I used Context to order the Default Content Block and the Session Resource Block. See screenshot
#5
I'm not in a position to provide technical review, but I think the idea of having this all integrated in one content type is great. So absent any other progress on this I just wanted to provide that feedback.
#6
@rootwork
Thanks for the comments. If we could get more people to review the patch maybe it will get committed to COD.
Thanks
#7
I cannot enable this feature because mediafield is a dependency.
#8
This patch is based off the work of @kclarkson, comment #4.
I only removed the mediafield dependency and added the missing ending of the description in the the cod_session_resources.info file.
#9
@chrisguindon,
thanks for fixing that sir !
Hopefully we can get some people to review this so that it can be committed.
#10
Should we include the removal of cod_session_video in the patch?
If cod_session_resources get committed I don't think we need cod_session_video anymore.
#11
In case we do here is an update that includes the removal of cod_session_video.