Attachments play a crucial role in enhancing your media items by allowing you to add various files such as PDFs, images, spreadsheets, and more. For instance, suppose you have a video presentation and want to provide viewers with a PowerPoint slide deck. In that case, you can attach the document as an attachment to the video, making it available for viewers to download.
How to Add an Attachment:
- Navigate to the Video section and select your item
- Click on the "Attachments" tab and press "Upload attachment".
- Select the file you want to upload.
File requirements:
Ravnur supports adding attachments of any file type. By default, the system defines the following file types:
- Documents: PDF (.pdf), Word (.doc, .docx)
- Images: PNG (.png), JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg), GIF (.gif)
- Spreadsheets: Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
- Presentations: PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
If you need to attach other file types, please reach out to Ravnur support, and they will gladly add those file types for you.
To manage your attachments effectively, you can label them for specific purposes and define whether there can be one or multiple files of each attachment type.
Usage Examples
1. Let’s explore a use case that is part of the default configuration: Live Events. Typically, a Live Event has an agenda, and there should only be one agenda attached. To achieve this, you can create an attachment called “Agenda”.
By default, Live Events allow a single file per Event with the allowed type PDF. Contact Ravnur if you need to change these configurations.
Now upload the PDF file, and it will be displayed as the agenda for that Live Event.
2. Similarly, for the Video, you might want to create Video attachment minutes. For this purpose, an attachment type called “Minutes” has been pre-configured. Just like the Agenda attachment, it only accepts PDF files and allows for a single file to be attached.
Attachments benefits
When working with attachments, you should know that they are included in the API response for each media item. This means that you can easily retrieve the file names, labels, and the files themselves to display to your users.
Attachments greatly enhance the functionality and usefulness of your media items in Ravnur. With the flexibility to attach different file types, label them appropriately, and control the number of files, you can seamlessly provide the necessary supplementary content to your viewers.