Learn how to create channels, events, groups and collections, as well as how to use each to organize your users and content.
Applications have a certain number of default pages such as home, gallery, enter and so on. You can add pages to your applications.
Note: The default pages depend on the application installed.
Adding advertisements is a simple process in Media Factory. By default the ad boxes are red with company written inside.
It is recommended that you maintain two applications in each project: a live application and a staging application. The staging application is only used for testing purposes and the live application is linked to the live URL.
Note: The staging application is usually in the format of staging.applicationame.projects.fm.
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You can change the default favicon used for an application.
To change the favicon:
Note: Organizing files with folders will be helpful in the future.
The maximum file size that you can upload to Media Factory is 1GB (1000MB); however, for some applications, the file size limit is set to 500MB. You may want to lower the file size accepted by some applications depending on the purpose of the content.
To change the maximum upload size:
Configure emails for outbound communication including standard registration, moderation, lost password emails, or create your own template.
As part of your overall setup across projects and applications, you must indicate whether you want emails to be sent to your website’s user base. You have the following options when configuring read more »
Transcoder profiles allow you to export or display user media in custom sizes, formats and quality.
Three sections of Media Factory play a part in creating and implementing new transcoder profiles:
You can edit the password length and username information by editing the fmValidateForm.js.
To edit the password length:
You can edit fields in a form to be required or optional. Also, using Media Factory, you can add or remove fields.
To removing pre-existing fields:
This is an excellent resource for documentation about the platform:
http://developer.mediafactory.fm
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Graphics are generally provided by a client or a third-party agency. Depending of the Statement of Work, the client or the third party can provide a PSD with the graphics for Filemobile to implement or they can implement them.
Many different options exist to display templates in Wrapper, Application and Email templates.
Wrapper templates apply to the various pages across a project. There are also generic wrapper templates for emails that apply across emails.
Note: Each project comes with default wrapper templates.
read more »If you implement the Google Maps tool, your website users will be able to share their location and the location of their submissions on an interactive map.
Note: You can customize Google Maps, if necessary ;however, you should discussit with your Account Manager from Filemobile.
If your website supports multiple languages, you can set up multiple language domains.
You can use <fm:Switch> to call a specific language stylesheet.
You can use metadata in the following Application templates: upload.html, enter.html, login.html or fbprofile.html.
Report emails are sent to moderators when comments are reported. The report button is located on the media item’s page on your website. The report button is used for the following reasons:
To setting up report emails:
Media Factory has many options to share posts and submissions to other platforms such as Facebook Share, Facebook Like, Twitter, Google+, Send an email to friend and Stumbleupon. This increases the potential for a wider marketing campaign. These share functions are found on a website’s entry page.
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You can upload files in two different ways. From the Navigation bar, you can select Media>Upload for user related content or you can select Application>Assets for website graphics and files (such as .js files). However, when using Media Factory, you can only upload one file at a time to read more »
