Question 1: Is it possible to have a video component to generate a preview image for a Tiles layout. That is, I have a tiles layout that has video component inside, so I’m looking for ways that I can use to get an image preview of the video in the tiles layout.
I’m guessing you tried to use the video as the image and it didn’t work. So, the only thing you could do was to create a representative image of each video and save it off for each video.
I’m pretty sure that request has been asked before, autoplay both audio and video, but I don’t know if it is on Glides list of new future features or if it is, where on the list it may fall.
Here is a workaround to display video thumbnail in list/tile component:
setup your sheet to take the info you want to display in the tile e.g. a column for video name and youtube url.
then add column to extract the youtube video code from the url and apply the formula to the entire column. The formula looks like this: =ArrayFormula(iferror(REGEXEXTRACT(B2:B, “youtu(?:.*/v/|.v=|.be/|.?embed/)([A-Za-z0-9_-]{11})”), “”))
then add column to extract a thumbnail from the youtube video code and again, apply the formula to the entire column. The formula looks like this: =ArrayFormula(if(C2:C = “”, “”, IMAGE(REPLACE(“https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/IMG/hqdefault.jpg”,25,3,C2:C), 4, 80, 120)))
then add column to extract a url to the thumbnail, apply the formula to the entire column: =ArrayFormula(if(C2:C = “”, “”, (REPLACE(“https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/IMG/hqdefault.jpg”,25,3,C2:C))))
you might want to hide the first row of each column that contains the formula.
you can now keep adding youtube video links to new rows and the formulas will automatically generate a thumbnail you can point your tile component to, which then link to the video url.