I’ve searched for a couple of hours now, and could not find anywhere that allows member/users to upload a link to a youtube (or any streaming) video. I’ve never heard of an “Instagram” type of member platform that has no feature for members to post videos. Either that function is extremely well hi…

Custom form page or not, it should be possible for you to: Add a text entry component and let the user add the URL into that entry Point the video component to the column that stores the URL

Anything that provides some insight or clues can help. I’ll gratefully have a look. Thanks.

I did another trick with the links. I added a second page about 8PM EST. It is a little more work, but may be what you are looking for.

Yes, I see. It’s still a bit glitchy but at least now I’m getting the videos to appear in 2 out of the 3 places I was trying to get them placed. Thanks again!

I created an example of how to get combined photo & video thumbnail images in a tile view: https://filteredlist.glideapp.io Only way thumbnails don’t autopopulate is via filepicker->video. Youtube and Google Drive works just fine. Images uploaded or linked work as well. Not sure if firebase has …

Thanks @Robert_Petitto for sharing. How did you do the top horizontal choice menu?

@Aj2666 New Features: Circle Tiles, Inline Choice, Twitter Cards

Thanks, I do not know how I missesd it :frowning:

That’s pretty cool. Just one question… How was that done? The glide app doesn’t allow copying so we can’t see the mechanics of it. Thanks.

Not ready to allow copying yet…too messy. The solution is simple though…two sheets. One as a placeholder for the choice list items (“Category”) with ref link to the second sheet (“Key”). I also included a one-cell “output” destination (“Selection”) for choice component. The second sheet of data …

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Hi Robert, can you share the video thumbnail app again? How a user’s video entry can be display ala insta.?? Thanks!

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