How to Make a Video Viewable in the Member Portal Video Library

This article will describe how to make a video viewable in the Member Portal Video Library. A number of preliminary steps can be taken in order to be able to better organize your videos, but after these have been carried out, you can skip to the section labelled “Adding A Video”.

Configuring Your Video Library

1. Login to your Admin365 Administrator Dashboard.

2. In the top bar, click “Configuration”

3. In the “Video Library” box, click “Setup”.

Adding Video Tags and Categories

4. To add tags or categories to organize the videos you add, you may click “Add” next to either Video Tags or Video Categories.

5. Adding a video category is fairly straightforward:

Simply enter a name for the new category into the indicated text box, then click “Add Video Category.”

6. Adding a new video tag requires a slight extra bit of care:

The “Add” button brings you to a more general page that allows you to create multiple types of tag.

Click the circular button next to “Video”, enter the desired tag in the text box, then click “Save”.

Adding A Video

1. In the navigation bar, hover over “Modules”, then, hover over “Video Library”, and click "Create Video”

3. You will find yourself at the Add Video interface. Start by entering a video title and description into the indicated text boxes.

4. Next, configure the advanced options for the video: use the button next to “Date Created” to select the date that the video was created, then enter the embedding code for the video into the text box labelled “Embed Link”.

Video Embed Link

Please note that simply pasting the URL of the video from its source (YouTube, etc) will not work. Video sites will generally present multiple options to you when you click “Share”, which will include a button or box labelled “Embed”. Clicking the button or finding this box will lead you to a larger block of text surrounded by the symbols “<” and “>”. Copy the text in its entirety and paste it into the Member365 interface to add your video. If you need more guidance finding the video embed link, please follow the steps outlined in this Knowledge Base Article for YouTube and this one for Vimeo.

5. To add a thumbnail, click the blue “Select” button,

then click “Choose File” in the dialogue box that appears.

Navigate to the image file on your computer you wish to use as a preview, and click “Open”.

6. Click the checkboxes next to the names of any categories to which you wish to add this video.

7. Enter the name of a tag you would like to assign to this video in the text box labelled “Tags”, or click “Video Tags” to access a list of existing tags:

Entering text into the box marked “Filter” will allow you to narrow down the list of tags that are available. Click on tags under “Available Tags” to select them, and click on tags under “Selected tags” to remove them. Click “Apply” once you are satisfied.

8. The first toggle button at the bottom of the form allows you to decide whether this video will be displayed in the Member Portal. The checkboxes allow you to choose which member categories this video is available to. And, the last toggle allows you decide whether this video is available to non-members. If your Video Library is not available to non-members, you will need to click where it is indicated in the picture below to allow non-members to access the Video Library

9. Scroll to the bottom and click “Add Video”.

Congratulations, you have added a video to the Member Portal Video Library!