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  • GovCMS Content Administration Training Manual
  • Contributing and Feedback Guide
  • Introduction to GovCMS
    • Introduction to GovCMS
    • Overview of user roles
  • Training Videos
    • GovCMS how-to videos
  • Unit 1: Intro to the Admin Backend
    • How to login to GovCMS
      • Exercise 1.1 - Login and Setting up TFA
    • How to log out from your site
    • Administration menu overview
      • Exercise 1.3 - Add a non-admin user
    • The Frontend Homepage Layout
      • Exercise 1.2 - View the Site Frontend content
    • How to access the content management area
    • Overview of content management area
    • Content management - filters overview
      • Exercise 1.4 - Filtering Content
  • Unit 2: More about GovCMS
    • Content types overview
    • Overview of content create/edit form
    • Form fields and form widgets
    • Fields and properties
    • Structured content in GovCMS
    • Overview of Rich text editor
    • Embedding media files
    • Text format
    • Content references in GovCMS
  • UNIT 3: MANAGING CONTENT IN GOVCMS
    • Creating Content
      • Exercise 3.1 - Create some content
    • Editing content
      • Exercise 3.3 - Edit a piece of content
    • Archiving content
      • Exercise 3.4 - Archiving content
    • How content changes can affect the site
  • UNIT 4: MANAGING CONTENT REVISIONS
    • Managing content revisions
      • Exercise 4.1 - View revisions history
      • Exercise 4.2 - Revert a content revision
  • UNIT 5: CONTENT MODERATION IN GOVCMS
    • Content moderation in GovCMS
      • Exercise 5.1 - Content moderation
  • UNIT 6: Files and media assets
    • Managing files and media assets in GovCMS
    • Media library
      • Exercise 6.1 - Uploading and using media
      • Exercise 6.2 - Manage media - Bulk Operations
  • UNIT 7: MANAGING URL ALIASES AND REDIRECTS
    • URL aliases and redirects
      • Exercise 7.1 - Update a page's URL alias
      • Exercise 7.2 - Create a URL alias
      • Exercise 7.3 - Create a Redirect (advanced)
  • UNIT 8: META TAGS AND SEO
    • Meta tags and SEO
    • Tokens and default meta tags
      • Exercise 8.1 - Update meta tags of content
  • UNIT 9: USING TAXONOMY TO CATEGORIZE CONTENT AND MEDIA
    • Taxonomy and Vocabulary
    • Overview of Taxonomy form widgets
      • Exercise 9.1 - Add taxonomy terms
      • Exercise 9.2 - Add taxonomy to a Page
  • UNIT 10: MANAGING SITE NAVIGATIONS AND BREADCRUMBS
    • About site navigation
    • About breadcrumbs
    • Managing menu items
      • Exercise 10.1 - Add an item to a menu
  • UNIT 11: CAPTURING DATA WITH FORMS
    • Capturing data with forms
      • Exercise 11.1 - Create a basic Webform
    • Webform components
      • Exercise 11.2 - Attach a form to a Webform page
      • Exercise 11.3 - Create an event registration form
  • UNIT 12: ADVANCED CONTENT EDITING
    • Advanced content editing
    • Advanced - content bulk operations
      • Exercise 12.2 - Bulk operations - delete test content
  • Appendix A - Glossary
    • Glossary
  • About Salsa Digital
    • Who is Salsa Digital?
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Inserting Media into body - The Media Widget

You can insert images and videos directly into the body field of a Content form via the Media widget. Click on the Media Library button from the WYSIWYG editor.

This will open the Media widget.

You can upload images or files from your computer by selecting "Select files"

Browse for and select a file on your local machine, then click Open.

Embedding code - videos and URLs

Using the Media widget you can also use the Remote video form to embed videos in content (e.g. YouTube or Vimeo videos).

Click on the Media Library button on the Body content section. Click on the Remote video tab, then enter the following information:

  • A url for the video you wish to embed.

Click on the Add button.

Media Library

All files uploaded to a website (or already included) are found in the Media Library. Media assets are displayed with the most recently added first.

Use the following to refine the media presented:

  • Enter text in the Name field.

  • Select from the dropdown to narrow the search to media items of type:

    • Audio

    • File

    • Image

    • Remote video

    • Video

Click the Filter button to perform the search.

In the screenshot below, the search word 'Govcms' has been entered into the Name field and for Type "Remote video" is selected.

Note: When you use a file from the Media Library or Files area, you are linking to a copy of the file, including its metadata. If you make changes to the file or its metadata, these changes will take effect for every use of the file on the site.

Media entity button
Media entity embed widget
The media library
Showing filter fields for media library