Important: You must "use old embed code" from YouTube
- Open YouTube and locate the video or you can use the direct youtube link, i.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VV3_6h4jbI
- Click the SHARE button and select EMBED tab
- Tick "Use old embed code" when copying the code
The old embed code from Youtube must be used - copy the entire code (Sample shown below)
A) Use Youtube videos as page image
To use a Youtube video as page image, please follow the steps below:
- Open shop in ShopFactory
- In Normal view, open the page where you want to show video as page image
- Right-click the page in the tree menu and select Page Properties
- Click on the Youtube icon
- Paste the embed HTML code in the textarea and click OK twice
B) Adding videos to the Page Introduction and/or description area
The procedure below is for Page Introduction area, but it works the same with the page description.
- Open shop in ShopFactory
- In Normal view, open the page where you want to add the videos
- Right-click the page in the tree menu and select Page Properties
- The page properties will open, click on the HTML code button
- Insert the embed HTML code in the textarea
- Click the HTML button again
- Click Ok
The video is now embedded.
C) Adding videos inside a table cell
Please follow the steps below on how to insert videos inside a table cell:
- Open shop in ShopFactory
- In Normal view, open the page where the table is located
- Right-click on the table cell
- Select “Embed from video sharing site”
- Insert the embed HTML code in the textarea
- Click Ok
The video should appear now.
D) Embed mp4 video
Copy the mp4 to your <shop project folder>\Runtime\media folder.
- Add this to custom html code or html view of a description field. Adjust the filename and dimensions accordingly:
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
<source src="../media/movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
Where, movie.mp4 is the actual filename of your mp4 video. You must change the html code to have the correct mp4 filename.