Multimedia Channels

Access this dialog by clicking an item in the Channels column in either the Local or External Multimedia Services dialogs. Use this dialog to centrally view, create, or change channels for a selected service. You can assign each channel a separate, corresponding Brightcove or YouTube account or use a single external account to store content and organize multiple content categories - or channels - in CommonSpot.

To make channels available for file upload and multimedia publishing, you must:

Explicitly grant CommonSpot application-level access to the supporting service. See Integrating Brightcove, Integrating YouTube, and the overview of Multimedia Services.

Activate the channel in CommonSpot, as described for the State column below.

Click to sort by Name, Description, Files, Playlists, or Players.

Name - The name assigned to the channel in CommonSpot.

Description - (Optional) The purpose of the channel.

Files - The number of files currently associated with the channel. Click through to view a report of multimedia filtered for this channel.

Playlists - The number of playlists currently associated with the channel. Click through to view a report of multimedia filtered for playlists for this channel.

For Local Channels, the option to create a Playlist does not exist. The display will say "N/A".

Players - The number of players currently associated with the channel. Click through to view a report of players defined for this channel and service.

State - Whether the channel is currently:

Active or Inactive (grayed out): Click to activate/deactivate. In the Active state, channels are available to authorized users for posting through CommonSpot. Any external service supporting the channel must also be registered and currently accessible to CommonSpot, as described below.
Accessible Inaccessible: Whether CommonSpot currently has access to the multimedia account for this channel. Access is enabled when CommonSpot is registered with the service, using a valid, unexpired token. If both conditions are true, you can optionally click to enable/disable CommonSpot access to individual channels in this dialog. See Integrating Brightcove and Integrating YouTube.

Actions column:

Click the edit icon to view or modify properties for this channel.
Click the security icon to view or change access to this channel.
(For Brightcove): Brightcove players are bound to templates configured on the Brightcove site. Click the add icon to include a new player for this channel.
(For external services): Click the import icon to add external multimedia files that were not uploaded via CommonSpot. Use this tool to include existing YouTube or Brightcove files in your CommonSpot multimedia libraries.
Remove individual items by clicking the associated delete icon .

Click Add Channel to create a new CommonSpot channel for this service.

Related Links

Add Multimedia Channel

Import from External Service

Import External Files

Multimedia Channel Security

Multimedia Channel Security Add Groups

Multimedia Channel Security Add Users

Add Multimedia Channel Security Permissions

You can download PDF versions of the Content Contributor's, Administrator's, and Elements Reference documents from the support section of paperthin.com (requires login).

The following guides are available from the support site and are in the /docs/directory of your CommonSpot Server:

You can also download these other guides from the support section of paperthin.com (with login):

For technical support:

http://www.paperthin.com/support/