Inserting Media in Editor
Inserting YouTube videos
- With you mouse, click where in a text area you want to place the YouTube video.
- In the editor toolbar, click on the Insert/Edit widget button. A dialog appears. Select the YouTube widget.
- Copy the URL of the video into the URL field. You can use the Go to YouTube button to open a window with YouTube.
- Fill in the rest of the fields and choose the Default size.
- Use the Insert button. The system places the video.
- Save the page you are editing.
Inserting media from the web
- With your mouse, click where you want to insert the media.
- On the editor toolbar, click on the Insert/Edit image or media button. An Insert image or media dialog window opens.
- Switch to the Web tab.
- Enter the URL of the resource into the URL field.
- Try the automatic file type detection using the Refresh () button. In case the file type cannot be detected, use the Media type drop-down list.
- (Optional) Adjust the properties based on the media type that you are inserting.
- (Optional) Preview how the media file looks on the page with the properties that you applied to it.
- Click Insert. The system places the media file.
- Save the page you are editing.
Inserting media stored in Kentico
- With your mouse, click where you want to insert the media.
- On the editor toolbar, click on the Insert/Edit image or media button. An Insert image or media dialog window opens.
- Depending on where the file that you want to insert is stored, switch to one of the following tabs
- Attachments tab - for files attached directly to the page you are editing.
- Content tab - for files stored in the content tree.
- Media libraries tab - for files stored in media libraries.
- Select ( ) the file that you want to insert.
- (Optional) Adjust the properties based on the media type that you are inserting.
- Click on Insert. The system places the media file.
- Save the page you are editing.
Working with Links
By inserting links you can create certain sections of the text clickable. Once clicked these links navigate users to different pages. You can create these types of links in the editor:
- Attachments links - allow you to create links to the attachments of the page that you are currently editing.
- Content links - allow you to create links to files stored in the content tree of any of the sites running in the system.
- Media libraries links - allow you to create links to content stored in media libraries.
- Web links - allow you to create links to different websites.
- E-mail links - allow you to create e-mail links that create a new e-mail in the user's default e-mail client and automatically fill in the fields that you specify.
Placing attachments links
- With your mouse, click in the text where you want to create a link or mark the text that you want to make into a link.
- In the editor toolbar, click on the Insert/Edit link button. An Insert link dialog opens.
- Switch to the Attachments tab.
- (Optional) If the attachment that you want to create a link to isn't attached to the page, use the Upload button to attach it.
- Select the attachment that you want to create a link to.
- (Optional) If you haven't marked any text that you want to make into a link, fill in the Link text field on the General tab.
- On the Target tab, specify how the link opens once users click it:
- (not set) - default setting, opens the link in the same browser window or tab as the page.
- (frame) - opens the link in the frame specified in the Target frame name field.
- New window (_blank) - opens the link in a new browser window.
- Same window (_self) - opens the link in the same browser window or tab as the page.
- Parent window (_parent) - opens the link in the browser window the current page is nested in.
- Topmost window (_top) - opens the link in the browser window that is positioned on the top.
- (Optional) Specify Advanced properties.
- Click Save & Close. The system creates the attachment link.
- Save the page you are editing.
Now, the attachment opens when a user click the link on the page.
Placing media libraries links
- With your mouse, click in the text where you want to create a link or mark the text that you want to make into a link.
- In the editor toolbar, click on the Insert/Edit link button. An Insert link dialog opens.
- Switch to the Media libraries tab.
- In the Site, Group and Library drop-down lists, specify the media library in which is the content you want to link to.
- (Optional) Use the Upload button to add the file you want to link to into the media library.
- Select the media library item that you want to create a link to.
- (Optional) If you haven't marked any text that you want to make into a link, fill in the Link text field on the General tab.
- On the Target tab, specify how the link opens once users click it:
- (not set) - default setting, opens the link in the same browser window or tab as the page.
- (frame) - opens the link in the frame specified in the Target frame name field.
- New window (_blank) - opens the link in a new browser window.
- Same window (_self) - opens the link in the same browser window or tab as the page.
- Parent window (_parent) - opens the link in the browser window the current page is nested in.
- Topmost window (_top) - opens the link in the browser window that is positioned on the top.
- (Optional) Specify Advanced properties.
- Click Save & Close. The system creates the attachment link.
- Save the text you are editing.
Now, the media library opens when a user click the link on the page.**
Placing Email Links
- With your mouse, click in the text where you want to create the link or mark the text that you want to make into an e-mail link.
- In the editor toolbar, click on the Insert/Edit link button. An Insert link dialog opens.
- Switch to the E-mail tab.
- (Optional) If you haven't marked any text that you want to make into a link, fill in the Link text field.
- Fill in the fields that you want the user to have prefilled when they click the e-mail link.
- Click on Save & Close. The system creates the e-mail link.
- Save the text you are editing.
Now, when a user clicks on the e-mail link on the page, their default e-mail client creates a new message and prefills the fields that you specified.