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1. patrickgmj | Member

   8 months ago # | |

   I'm putting together an Omeka installation as a demo and exploration space for a Digital History course at University of Mary Washington. We're all exploring it together, and one person added a Moving Image item.

   It appears to be there in the archive directory, but there isn't a way to play/embed it in the page, or to download it. Am I missing a setup step either on the server or in omeka?

   Thanks much,
   Patrick Gosetti-Murrayjohn
   Instructional Technology Specialist
   University of Mary Washington

   BTW--the students and teacher are having a great deal of fun exploring this application!

2. JeremyBoggs | Project Manager

   8 months ago # | |

   Hi Patrick,

   There's a function in Omeka called display_files() that should play the movie file associated with an item. In your template, wherever $item is used, you can add this:

   <?php display_files($item->Files); ?>

   The display_files() function will create a download link if the file is anything except an image, movie, or audio file. If you'd prefer to make a download file for each file associated with your item, you can loop through your item's files and provide a download link using this code:

   <?php foreach ($item->Files as $file) {
echo '<a href="'. file_download_uri($file). '" class="download-file">'. $file->original_filename. '</a>';
} ?>

   Hope this helps!

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