The YouTube card lets businesses easily and quickly stream YouTube content, such as their latest product lineup, advertisements, or even add that cute cat video in between corporate announcements, for a quick laugh in the office.
The YouTube card is an Appspace supported card, which is officially created and periodically updated by Appspace with new templates and features.
Visit our Appspace Card Gallery to find the perfect card to deliver your message.
Existing YouTube card card templates (prior to this release) which were categorized as Community Cards will be removed from the Appspace console.
Apart from the basic card customizations, the following customizations are available for the YouTube card:
- Display YouTube video streams at 1080p or 720p high definition (source dependant)
- Loop the YouTube video stream continuously.
This article provides instructions on how to create and configure the YouTube card to be displayed.
What’s in this article:
Prerequisites
- Cards are only supported on devices with the Appspace App. Legacy devices are not supported.
- Ensure your device is compatible. Refer to Compatible Appspace Cards.
- Account Owner, Publisher, or Editor (author) role in Appspace.
Basic Card Customizations
Please take note of the following pointers when configuring the card:
- The card title is also the name used when saving the card to the Library. Therefore this is a mandatory field.
- The text editor is only displayed for each field when you click and type in the field (Title, Headline, Summary). It provides basic text editing capabilities such as font size, font style, text alignment, and text color.
- You can add images to the card by browsing the Library for existing content. You can also upload, or drag and drop an image directly into the image placeholder, from a folder in your computer. However, you may only upload one image to the image placeholder.
- The color picker, enables color selection for text and backgrounds in the card. The first two characters in the Hex color code is the transparency value, while the next six characters are the color values. Please be mindful when including a custom Hex color code.
Create and Configure YouTube Card
Follow the instructions below to create and configure the card:
- Login to the Appspace console.
- Click the QUICK ACTION menu on the top right and select Create Card, and proceed to step 4 below. Or click Library from the Appspace menu navigation bar on the left, and proceed to step 3 below.
- Select the desired folder in the library, click the ADD button, and select Create Card.
- Select YouTube from the Filter by template menu, and select a desired card template.
- Enter in the YouTube URL or playlist link in the address field.
- You may make the following customizations:
- Set the maximum video resolution.
- 1080p – Selected by default.
- 720p
- Auto
- Customize the playback behavior of the video.
- Show loading splash
- Loop continuously
- Set the maximum video resolution.
- Once customizations have been made, click Next.
- In the Save tab, enter in the Title, as this is a mandatory field. Optionally, you may enter in the Article, Caption, Content Expiry, Content Tags and even upload a custom thumbnail for the content.
- Click Save to complete, and you may now proceed to add the card into a playlist channel.