Adding Videos to a Portal Experience

In this topic you will learn how to create collections and select the videos that will be displayed on Portal Experiences.

Using the Gallery Collection Editor, you can select the videos to display on Portal Experiences. With Portal Experiences, videos are organized into collections. Collections can contain videos from a Video Cloud account or from a YouTube channel.

To add videos to a Portal Experience, click Videos in the left navigation.

Creating a collection

Videos in a Portal Experience are organized into collections. To create a collection, follow these steps:

  1. Click Videos in the left navigation. The Manage Collections page will open. The right side of the dialog displays a preview of the home page video layout for the selected template type.
  2. Enter a name for the collection and press enter. The name will be displayed to viewers so make sure to use a meaningful name. Click the edit () icon to edit the collection name.
  3. (Optional) To indicate that this is a header collection, click the folder icon (). Header collections have no videos associated with them and are used for organization.

Editing a collection

  1. To edit a collection, click the collection name.
  2. The Edit Collection page will open. The Edit Collection page is used to add videos to a collection and to configure additional collection properties.
  3. The Change Collection dropdown will list all of the collections that have been created. Select the collection to edit.
  4. The Collection Source specifies the source of the video content for the collection:
  5. Click Save to save changes.

Deleting a collection

To delete a collection, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Videos icon in the left navigation.
  2. Click the Delete icon () associated with the collection.
  3. Click Delete to confirm the deletion.
  4. Click Done when finished.

Ordering and nesting collections

To change the order of how the collections will appear on your site click the Videos icon in the left navigation.

Moving a collection

Click and drag on the collection name or move icon () and drag the collection to a new position. The separator line indicates if the collections are at the same level or nested. In this example, the Brightcove Player collection is moved to the top. The separator line indicates that all collections are at the same level.

Nesting a collection

Click and drag on the collection name or move icon () and drag the collection to a new position. Dragging to the right will indent the separator line indicating that this collection will be nested. In this example, the Uploading Videos collection is moved and the separator line indicates that it will be nested under the Video Cloud Essentials collection.

After the collection is nested, the nesting will be reflected in the Manage Collections dialog.