Working with the Immersion Portal Template

In this topic you will learn about the features available in the Immersion Portal template.
 

Video is an ideal way to distribute timely messages throughout an organization. The Immersion Experience, available as part of Brightcove Gallery, is designed to help deliver:

  • Company updates
  • Event briefs
  • Executive messages

The Immersion Experience is a portal template and provides most of the design elements and features found in the other Gallery portal templates. This topic will outline some of the features that are available in this template.

Creating a new experience

To create a new Immersion Portal Experience, follow these steps.

  1. In the primary navigation, click Gallery.
  2. Click New Experience.
  3. Click the Portal tab at the top of the page. A list of Portal templates will be displayed. Locate the Immersion template and click Choose.
  4. Enter an Experience Title.
  5. Click Create Experience.

The Gallery Site Editor will open. The process to add videos and customize the experience is similar to the other portal templates.

Video collection organization

The order of the video collections controls how they appear on the homepage.

The Immersion template has two main areas where videos are displayed as designated in the sample site:

  1. Hero slider - Typically used to feature important, featured, live or simulive content. Video poster images will appear in the hero slider at the top of the home page. Clicking a poster will open the video detail page where the video can be played.
  2. Other collections - Can include anything but is typically used to feature VOD content.

When ordering collections in Gallery, the collections should be ordered in the following manner:

  • Collection 1 - Hero slider
  • Collection 2 - x - Other collections

For the above example, the collections would be created as follows:

The Immersion template offers the ability to add a logo to the top and/or bottom of pages. Follow these steps to add a logo.

  1. Open the Gallery module.
  2. Click on an Immersion experience to edit it.
  3. Click Add logo at the top or bottom of the page.
  4. To upload an image, select the Image option and then click the Image field and browse and select an image. To use an image URL, select the Image URL option and then enter the URL to the image to use.
  5. Enter the Image alt-text.
  6. (Optional) Enter a Company Name. The company name will appear to the right of the logo.
  7. Click Save.
To edit or delete the logo, hover over the logo and click on the action menu (...). Click Edit logo to edit the logo or Delete to delete the logo.

The Immersion template offers the ability to add a menu to the top or bottom of pages. Menu links can be configured to go to specific videos collections or to external links. Follow these steps to add a menu.

  1. Open the Gallery module.
  2. Click on an Immersion experience to edit it.
  3. Click Add menu item at the top or bottom of the page.

Editing or deleting a menu item

Follow these steps to edit or delete an existing menu item.

  1. Hover over a menu item and click on the action menu (...).
  2. To delete a menu item, click Delete and then confirm the deletion.
  3. To edit a menu item, click Edit menu link, make the appropriate changes and then click Save.

Configuring suggested videos

The Immersion template offers the ability to a list of suggested videos on video detail pages. The suggested videos will appear on detail pages below the video player.

Follow these steps to configure suggested videos.

  1. Open the Gallery module.
  2. Click on an Immersion experience to edit it.
  3. In the left navigation, expand the Pages section and click Detail.
  4. Click Add suggested videos.
  5. Select where to show videos from.
    • Current collection - Additional videos from the current collection will be displayed
    • Parent collection - Additional videos from the parent collection will be displayed
  6. Select a sort order (based upon video created date).
    • Newest to oldest
    • Oldest to newest
    • Oldest in list (collections only)
  7. Click Save.

Configuring template settings

The Immersion template offers the ability to customize several template settings that control how video thumbnails will appear. For information see Customizing the Immersion Template Settings.

Portal settings currently not supported

The following settings and options that are normally supported by portal templates are not currently supported in the Immersion template.

  • Pre-populate experience
  • Calls-To-Action
  • Multi-lingual audio
  • Social sharing
  • Video downloads
  • Fonts - The list of available primary and secondary fonts is limited compared to other portal experience types