Create a channel playlist - Theming


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Channel playlists help you organize and highlight content in a channel. Create themed collections using media from My Media or your channel. Playlists appear in the channel's Playlists tab.

  • The Theming module and the Channelplaylists module must be enabled.
  • Existing playlists may not be added to a channel playlist.
  • Channel Managers / Admins (or roles with playlist permissions) can create and manage channel playlists.
  • Kaltura Video Quizzes can only be added to a playlist in applications where the main playlist player is set to a v7 player.

Access the create playlist page

  1. From the user menu, select My Channels.
  2. On the My Channels page, locate the channel you want to add a playlist to and click Go to channel.
  3. Click Actions at the far right and select Create a channel playlist from the menu.
  4. The Create channel playlist window opens.

  5. Add a name and description.
  6. Click Create (bottom right). 
  7. You’ll be redirected to the edit playlist page to add media and organize your list.

Add items to your playlist

When you add media to a channel playlist, those items are automatically published to the channel (if they weren’t already). To add items, you must have co-publisher rights for the channel.

  1. Click Add to playlist (top right or center of the page).
  2. The 'Select media' window opens.

  3.  Check the boxes next to the items you want to add in the tabs:
  • Channel Media - add media from the channel
  • My media - add media from My Media

You can use the search function to find the media.

3. Click Select (bottom right).

The playlist Content tab displays.

4. When you're happy with your playlist, click Save (top right). 

Change order of items

  • Mouse: Drag the handles (two lines) to the left to move the item.
  • Keyboard: Tab to the handle → Space/Enter to pick up → ↑/↓ to move → Space/Enter to drop (Esc cancels).

Remove items

Click the remove icon next to an item to take it out of the playlist. 

Playlist thumbnails

  • The playlist thumbnail defaults to the first item in the playlist. If you change the order, it updates after you save.
  • For an empty playlist, no thumbnail is shown until you add items.

Very large playlists are supported; consider saving periodically when making many changes.

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