Kentico.Widget.Video

Video widget

The video widget allows content editors to insert an embedded video from Youtube or Vimeo into their website. The URL of the video can be specified in the widget's Video URL property.

Properties

• Video URL - the URL of a Youtube video or a Vimeo video to be displayed on the live site.

Download & installation

Prerequisite: You need to have NodeJS runtime installed to be able to use this widget.

1. Clone this repository to your file system.
   • git clone https://github.com/Kentico/ems-mvc-components.git
2. Open the Kentico.Components.sln solution in Visual Studio and build the solution.
3. Open PowerShell and navigate to the root of the repository.
4. In the PowerShell, run the npm install command and then the npm run build command.
5. Copy Kentico.Widget.Video.dll and Kentico.Widget.Video.Views.dll files from the /SandboxSite/bin folder from this repository to the bin folder of your MVC project.
6. Copy contents of the Kentico.Widget.Video/App_Data folder from this repository to the App_Data folder of your MVC project.
   • This step ensures that resource strings required by the component are available in your project.
7. Copy contents of the Kentico.Widget.Video/Content folder from this repository to the Content folder of your MVC project.
   • This step ensures that scripts and stylesheets required by the component are available in your project.

After rebuilding your solution, you can place the video widget into your pages when using the page builder. You may need to adjust the limitations of editable areas to be able to insert the widget into an editable area.