Video Galleries

[Daniel Mulroy]

Hello all,

I'm trying to find the best way to create a gallery of videos for our homepage.

I'm having two issues:

1. I can't find an easy way to play a video from a gallery object. I found that if I set it to external link, I have to manually change the YouTube link to add /embed/ in the url for it to work, to avoid CORS issues.

2. I would prefer this to be dynamic - so from the CloudBackend or YouTube playlist, it automatically fetches thumbnails, Titles, etc. and renders the gallery objects with the links already set. Keeping this a manual process is not desirable.

Anyone have any good ideas for how to accomplish this?

I can easily manage the CloudBackend part, I'm just not sure how to populate the visual elements automatically using the API data, and staying within PageBuilder.

Thanks in advance.

[Joseph Benguira]

@Daniel-Mulroy said in Video Galleries:

I would prefer this to be dynamic - so from the CloudBackend or YouTube playlist, it automatically fetches thumbnails, Titles, etc. and renders the gallery objects with the links already set. Keeping this a manual process is not desirable.

Hey Daniel,

in this tutorial we show how to generate a gallery with data coming from cloud backend database
https://academy.appdrag.com/FullStack-with-cloud-backend-Episode-5.html

It's based on the factory pattern, we call the api in JS to get the rows from the DB and we do a FOR loop on each row, and for each row we generate a gallery item and add it

In that loop you could also do a simple replace in the youtube url to shape it like you need (/embed/)

OR a total different way ... with dynamic datasources (repeating a column containing an iframe ...)

[Daniel Mulroy]

Brilliant !

I'll give this a try.