Make Iconik or Youtube videos playable WITHIN a base?

[christopherogle]

Hey everyone,

We're currently building a "content library" of video clips in AT... And instead of having our editors click a URL that takes them "out" of Airtable... I'd love for them to have a way to just play the video from WITHIN Airtable itself. Is there a way to do this?

One thing to mention is that we are using Iconik for our media storage. So the code (or extension) would need to pull from/integrate with Iconik into Airtable. 

The purpose is just to make things easier/faster for our editors to click and play clips from within Airtable... instead of having to open a new tab every time they want to see a clip. 

Hope that makes sense! Thanks in advance for your help. 

[ScottWorld]

The only way to do that in Airtable -- and it will only work with YouTube videos -- is to use the URL Preview extension.

(Note that extensions will not run in interfaces.)

[TheTimeSavingCo]

Yeap, you could build a custom extension for this.  Airtable actually has a template you can start with and it's fairly easy to modify, so if you know someone familiar with JavaScript you can just ask them to take a look at it for you; probably like 1-3 hours of work

There's a possibility that something on Iconik's side would prevent you from loading it up within an extension like that though

[christopherogle]

Thanks, Adam! Is this something you (or your team) are able to do? If so, please reach out to me at christopher@performancegolf.com — we're looking to hire a consultant for this asap. Thanks!

P.S. We'd also be open to uploading the clips to YouTube and pulling from there if Iconik has any issues

[TheTimeSavingCo]

Yeap, happy to help; I'll send you an email!