Adding Video

[mohammedjs]

Dears,
is their any way to add Video to forms. as Attached i men .
we need to record video form user .
i men the user can upload video file to app that we can preview it.

[Kirk_Masden]

If you put your video on YouTube I think you should be able to show it in a form, though I haven’t tried it myself.

Feature: Video Embedding Tips & Tricks 💡

Are you in need of embedding videos in your app? Receiving an error? Give the following a try: What is video embedding? Video embedding allows you to take a link from an external source, such as youtube, and embed it into your data to view on your app. This is different from sites like youtube and Vimeo that allow you to upload your video content directly to their server. Currently, AppSheet only supports the embedding of videos. Where do I set up video embedding? The ability to embed your v…

It is also possible to embed gifs that function as short videos. See the same thread for information about this.

[Steve]

mohammedjs:

is their any way to add Video to forms. as Attached i men .

Use a column of type File. This will allow the user to upload a file of any type (there’s no way to accept only video). There’s no way to allow an app user to view the uploaded video file from the app itself, though.

Read more:

help.appsheet.com

Column Types: Diving Deeper

Learn more about each column type you can have when structuring your columns.

help.appsheet.com

How to Display Videos and Images in Your App

There are a few ways to show images and videos in your app.

[Kirk_Masden]

The second video shows how to embed a YouTube video. If, for some reason, you want to avoid YouTube, working with mp4 from a normal server is much harder. I hope that AppSheet will eventually add native support for mp4 and mp3 files. There some discussion of that on the page I posted above.