Embed uploaded videos to IBM Connections blog post or wiki page

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Here for example embedding a video to a blog post. Prerequist is that you’ve no fear to change some html source.

  • Upload the video to the Files application in Connections
    • All blog readers need to have access to the video file
    • Easiest way is to upload to Community files and use it in the Community blog directly in this community
  • Open the file within IBM Connections Docs Viewer and click on ABOUT – Get Links

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  • Copy the “Link to download file:” to the clipboard

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  • Now create a new blog post (add heading, tags, additional text)
  • Switch to the HTML view in the post

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  • On the position where you want to add the video, add following source:
<video src="url from files viewer" controls="" width="640px"></video>
  • Example:
<video src="https://connections.example.com/files/form/anonymous/api/library/6722626c-b14c-4f4e-80fc-f27f71ad2cb9/document/512adfd2-1d30-4a3d-92ee-13db1f5f0574/media/2018-01-22%20Call%20February%202016.mp4" controls="" width="640px" height="480px"></video>
  • Post the document

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Update

Thanks to Urs for the comment, I updated the code so it is valid XHTML now.

Author

Christoph Stoettner

I work at Vegard IT GmbH as a senior consultant with a focus on collaboration software, Kubernetes, security and automation. I mainly deal with HCL Connections, WebSphere Application Server, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and Linux.

Sometimes my daily work results in technical talks and blog articles, which you can follow here more or less regularly. You can find the presentations in the main menu under public speaking .

I created a list of tools I use regularly, most of which have been released under an open source license.

In my spare time I read a lot, test all kinds of technical software and gadgets and try to follow about 200 RSS feeds.
Here you can find a collection of them.

This is my private blog, all opinions are my own.

           

Urs
Wednesday, 9. Feb 2022 10:27

Hi Stoeps

At least in Connections 7 the video tag should be changed from <video src="url from files viewer" controls width="640px"></video> to <video src=“url from files viewer” controls="" width=“640px”></video>

Otherwise you’ll get the nasty “Please ensure the page source is valid XHTML. Switching to rich text mode from source mode will convert HTML to XHTML” error…

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