Video Pages

Video Pages

Video Pages

Video pages allow users to create a custom grouping of videos in the form of an embedded public page. This page can also be protected by adding access restrictions to the page.

Info
Ask Icareus to enable this feature for your account.

Create New Page

From the menu item Publishing -> Pages, click on the blue "Create New Page" button.



Name the page and click "Save". You can also enter a description for the page - it will appear in the "Pages" list in the "Description" column.



Videos

You will be taken to the administrator interface of your new page, under the "Videos" tab. You can add videos to your page by clicking on "Add Videos"...



Notes
The URL to embed the page can be found in the "Basic Information" box on the left side of the page, in the "Embed URL" field.

Folders

...and/or go to the "Folders" tab, where you can select the folders you want to display on your video page. 

Click "Save" to display the folders you have selected on the page.



Graphics

Under the "Graphics" tab, you can influence the appearance of the page by adding images.



By default, only the banner image is displayed to the end user, e.g. like this:


Alert
By default, there is very little formatting on the page. On request, Icareus can manually add some basic formatting (e.g. colours and fonts) to your video page.

Security

By default, the end user is not restricted from accessing the page. You can set access rights here:



Possible access management options include:
  1. No restrictions
  2. Username and password



By selecting "Username and password", you can assign a username and password to the page that everyone can use.



It adds a login screen to the video page.



Possible restrictions include:
  1. No restrictions
  2. Location
  3. Security token



Location: you can select the locations from which users can access the video page. You can specify possible locations in the menu under Settings -> Locations. 



Security Token


When the security token restriction type is selected, a secret security key is generated. This key is unique for the Page, so it cannot be reused for other Pages. To copy the security key for pasting purposes, click the copy button.

To calculate the security token for a specific remote IP, concatenate the IP number as text, a hyphen (minus) and the security key as a string, and then make an SHA-256 hash of the string.

Assuming we have a Java method sha256 which calculates the SHA-256 hash, the statement for calculating the security token is:

String securityToken = sha256( remoteIP + "-" + securityKey );

To access the Page, the viewer's link must contain the parameter sid whose value must be the security token specific to their IP.

As an example, assume that the remote IP is 185.185.168.162 and the secret key is dc5a7f467f01fb7d9962b2062d24775c559edb50569f2d7b9588850dd21e75a5.

For viewers from this remote IP, the security token needed is the SHA-256 of 185.185.168.162-dc5a7f467f01fb7d9962b2062d24775c559edb50569f2d7b9588850dd21e75a5.

The correct security token in this case is 4c4163263e408f5fa04eebd71f2ee2ccc4686b1119f95a5a415bd0b2701fa4a5.

Assuming the Video Page URL for this example Page is

a viewer from 185.185.168.162 can use a link such as

https://suiterc.icareus.com/web/test-account/embed/videos?groupItemId=3102202&sid=4c4163263e408f5fa04eebd71f2ee2ccc4686b1119f95a5a415bd0b2701fa4a5
to access the event. Without the correct sid, the viewer will only see an empty web page.


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