Adding Media to your Forum Post

Adding a picture to your post can help to highlight, embellish your post or amuse your post readers. Communities are also increasingly using or referencing YouTube or other types of video media within forums posts.

Instead of simply providing a link to a video, you can provide a far more relevant post discussion by embedding the video or image directly within your post. For example, you could then add comment to the contents of the video or an introduction to explain its relevance to a topic.

To add images or movies into your forum post, you must be using the Standard or Enhanced post Content Editor. Click here to learn more about changing your site preferences.

To insert Media into your forum post, click the Media icon (looks like a filmstrip).

The post editor will display a three-tab dialogue for Local media, from site, or from URL. Your profile or the Community might not be configured to allow the upload of files from your computer. Check with existing members to find our.

To insert media from your local computer, click the Browse button on the From Computer tab. Locate your file, and click the Insert button.

To insert media that is altready uploaded to site through to the Media library, click the From Site tab.

Your Communiies Media library may appear different to the one illustrated below. Files insert to your own media library will be shown under your username (CarpeDiem in the example below). Navigate through the media library by clicking the down arrow symbold immediately left of a media branch. This expands that level. Click on a media hyperlink to display files in that media library. Hightlight the object that you would like to insert and click the Insert button.

To insert media from another web-site, click the From URL tab, and paste the URL of the media file. If this is a YouTube, Vimeo or other video file you should use the URL to the page for that media item. If you are pasting an image from another web-site, you need to copy the URL shortcut to that image and paste this into the URL location.

The example shown above is the URL for a YouTube movie pasted into the Link to media box. You can insert media from most video sites including YouTube, Vimeo.