Hi,

I'm quite new to Drupal and am trying to insert videos into existing pages. I followed the tutorials and successfully added videos to my pages, but have not been able to display any playlists.

Instead of cretaing a new node as instructed in the tutorials, I edited the basic content type that I used for my existing pages. Now when editing a page, I can upload a video. In the field settings, for the Media Upload, I used the unlimited number of values so that I can upload more than one. It wasn't in the tutorials, so I'm wondering if I'm doing it right.

Where I get confused in the tutorials is when creating a new view, it says to check the option "Create a page". Should I be doing this if I want to display the playlist in my existing pages?

I hope I am being clear, because I'm getting pretty confused with the way Drupal works.

Thanks in advance,

J.

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travist’s picture

travist commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

You should be using the Views module (not unlimited field entries) to build a playlist. Please carefully read this... http://drupal.org/node/1563586

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jmunger commented

OK now I deleted all presets and fields I created before, and started from scratch using the documentation examples... now at point 8 of this tutorial http://drupal.org/node/1563580 , I don't get the "Player not available" on the node after uploading the video and image on my node. I proceeded to create the preset, but there's still no player displayed on my node. Any idea why?

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jmunger commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active
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jmunger commented

OK I got it working again.

So now I configured everything according to the instructions. I have a node of type Media, where I uploaded a video and image, and it works well. But how do I add a second video to play in the playlist?

I guess there's something I don't understand in all the nodes/page/views/content-types concepts.

Say I have an existing page of type Media with body content, how do I display a player with a playlist at the bottom of it? My situation is that I have a site already set up, where all pages are set as a specific content-type, and on some of these pages, I want to be able to add a media player with a set of videos that I will upload for this specific page.

travist’s picture

travist commented
Status: Active » Fixed

You just need to create another piece of content by clicking on "Create Content" of the type that is being populated via views.

jmunger’s picture

jmunger commented

So what you are saying is that I must replace my existing page by a view, right? And if I want to have 3 pages displaying 3 different playlists, I will have to create 3 views and 3 content-types?

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jmunger commented
Status: Fixed » Needs review
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travist commented

It depends on what you consider a 'different' playlist. You can use the same view and then provide arguments to dynamically alter the contents of the playlist based on those arguments so that would technically look like a different playlist, but would be driven by a single view.

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enjoylife commented
Priority: Major » Normal
Status: Needs review » Fixed

I'm marking this as fixed. If you still are having problems with set up, please let me know.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.