Rock U - Content Management - Publishing Rock Media

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So media is really important in the church world and to many organizations. So let's talk about how you can add media into Rock and how we can even track engagement on that media natively, then easily add this media to our site. Alright. First, let's pull up a content channel, and I'll tell you why in a moment. But we will go to admin tools, up to content channels, click there. And I've already created a content channel as an example. If we click into it and I click edit, there are some important things here. One of those being that we have an item attribute I've added that has a field type of media element, and we've got the key media element here. And this is important so that you can add media elements to your content channels. And I'll give you an example of one I did already. We have one item and it's simply got a, media element attribute here. So we pick the account, then the folder, and the media, and now we have that within our content channel item. So we will save, but next, we're going to go to admin tools, down to media accounts. And we have a media account added already. This is just a local media account, but we're gonna click to add a new one. And there can be multiple account types, including things Vimeo so that it's easy to upload media from an external provider. But if we click into this media account we have here, and if we go to edit, you'll see we have the local media account set up. But if we go to one of the folders, and it's easy to add folders if we want. Actually, let's add one. We'll add one and let's call this Rock media, really bad name, but it's just as an example. And we can run a workflow type so that every time a new media element is added, a certain thing happens, and that could just help you upload content somewhere if you already have a process for uploading media, or you can enable content channel sync. We can pick a content channel the one we already have that has an attribute, with that media element type, and we can pick what status the content channel item will be when it's posted. But, basically, every time new media gets added here, a new content channel item will be created. So if we click save, now we've got those nice settings. We've got the content channel sync, and it's easy to automatically add new, new content. But we're going to go to the external site, and you'll notice we have two videos here, simply just a video that we have saved called Moneywise. But if we go into the settings, we have an HTML block. When we edit it, you'll notice this this kind of format here where it says media player, then we have a source, and it's simply a link to our video. Now here we could add anything a YouTube link. Wherever there's a video that's hosted, we can link it here and Rock will allow us to pull up the actual video. But let's look at what that is called. So what we just saw is called a short code. If we head back into internal Rock, all we need to do is go to admin tools, settings, start typing in short codes, and click on lava short codes. There's quite a few of these reusable things Rock has added to make it easy to do powerful things with Lava. But if we go look for the media player, we'll see that short code that we just used, and there's so many different parameters we can use. This thing right here with a colon after it is called a parameter, but I suggest you look into this on your own time to see all the powerful things you can do. But we're gonna use source and media in these two examples. So let's head back to that external site. You already saw in the block settings here, we use source. That just allows us to refer to a link. But down here, we're displaying our media in a different way, and this is as a content channel item, actually that one that you saw we added earlier. So if we go to the settings here or the configuration, this is for the content channel item view. And we pick the content channel, then we're using a Lava template where we're just getting the media element, which is simply pulling from that attribute that we have in the content channel, and we are displaying it using a short code again. So we just have media player and then the media parameter where we can just pass in this item, which could either just be an ID or a GUID, which is simply a string of numbers that refers to that media element you have, and we're just passing it in. We also added some other settings here such as auto resume in days. So if someone watches half of this video and they come back within fourteen days, they'll be able to pick up where they left off. Also, because we track place statistics on media elements or media items, we say here that if you come back within fourteen days to watch, it will be considered part of the same session. So if you watched it one time and you come back within fourteen days, that all counts as one session. And the media player is gonna be at 75% width. We have a couple other things for the content channel here. But when we reload, we can see that item pops up. how... You now have two clean ways to add media to your site, whether you're using a content channel or adding directly to a page. Next, we'll talk about how you can track engagement on that media.