The CMS section allows you to organize and edit your catalog: categories, products, metadata and specific pages. It is also in this section that you can create director and actor files.
3rd step: Creation of categories (themes)
The architecture of your platform can contain as many parent categories and sub-categories as you wish. Each subcategory can also contain subcategories.
A product can be available in different categories, without being duplicated in your back office. For example: the animated film "Monsters & Company" can both be associated with the "Kids" category and the "Animated film" category.
During your first login and access to your administration panel, categories will be present. These categories are added by default when deploying your administration panel, they can be modified or deleted if necessary.
Create and manage categories:
> CMS Content / Categories:
- Click on the "Add" button
- Define for each category:
- Information tab:
- Parent category*: select "Home" if your category is a parent category, otherwise select the parent category in which to associate this category to define it as a sub-category;
- Name*: this is the name of the category, as it will appear on the front;
- Short and/or long description (WYSIWYG) - these elements are not up to date, not included on the web front;
- SEO tab
- Cover tab: image that will appear at the top of your movies list, once a user clicks on a category name from the home page;
- Images tab: category images, can only be used via API integration;
- Geolocation tab: this section allows you to restrict the category to a certain geographical area (restriction of IP addresses);
- Metadata tab
- Information tab:
Items followed by an * are required to be able to validate the creation of a category.
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Step 4: Product Creation
A product is a "container" allowing you to add and configure the elements below:
- videos / series / trailer
- access
- actor/director sheets
- metadata
- descriptions
- live stream
- bonus files
- subtitles
- pictures
These elements, once configured, constitute the products that will be available on the platform.
Create a product:
> CMS Content / Products
- Click on the "Add" button
- Information tab :
- Product name: Displayed on the product;
- Short Description: Will appear on mouse over product thumbnail;
- Long description (WYSIWYG): with text editor (color, size, bold/italic) and the possibility of integrating images, hypertext links, iFrames, YouTube videos...;
- Tags: keywords to link products and facilitate searches/recommendations;
- Reference: reference number when there are a lot of titles;
- Access tab :
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- Allows you to define how users will access the product: SVOD/TVOD, streaming/download, HD/SD, price, duration, viewing limit...;
- You can limit certain videos to certain subscriptions;
- Availability tab:
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- Allows you to specify a release (and expiration) date for a product, and change the behavior for users before and after that date;
- Examples: Product not visible, Product visible but not authorized (we see the product but we cannot launch the video)...
- SEO tab :
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- To optimize the referencing of the platform on search engines.
- Associations tab:
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- Linking movies to your categories and subcategories (created beforehand), a product will be displayed in all the categories to which it will be assigned;
- Link to the Actors / Directors pages (created beforehand);
- Recommendations of other products (previously created) that users might like and related to the product;
- Cover tab: product cover/thumbnail, displayed on the web front :
- Images tab: images from the film / series / documentary;
- Metadata tab:
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- Year of production, Origin, Atmosphere, Director, ...
- You can add / customize as much metadata as you want, in the CMS Content / Metadata section;
- On the web front, an uncompleted metadata at the administration panel level will not be displayed at the web front level, the user will not see an empty metadata;
- Geolocation tab: allows to restrict the access of this product to certain countries;
- Groups tab:
- Allows you to restrict access to certain groups (created beforehand);
- Ex: preview for film distributors, access for internal teams/organizers, VIP content, etc...
Once all these elements have been completed, save the newly created product.
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5th step: once the products have been created, you can associate the videos with them
Link a video to a product:
> CMS Content / Products:
- Find the name of the product to add a video to;
- Access the product sheet by clicking on it;
- Access the Videos tab:
- Add a video
- Informations tab:
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- Fill in the name of the video, as it will appear on the video player page;
- Detailed description (optional): interesting when the product contains several videos;
- Duration: will appear on the product on mouse over;
- Source tab:
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- Select video source = Kinow video if your videos are hosted at Kinow;
- Search for your video by typing the first 3 letters (at least) of the loaded video file;
- Access tab :
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- If your product contains several videos, it is possible to configure specific access for each video (download, subscription, free);
- Disabling some subscriptions for this video;
- Date of publication of a video: differential/scheduled publication of videos in a series, for example;
- Subtitles tab:
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- Add subtitle files to your video (previously loaded in Media Management / Subtitles);
- The subtitles are then selectable from the player options on the platform;
- Learn more about subtitles;
- Bonus tab:
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- Addition of files relating to the film / documentary / product, downloadable by platform users;
- Bonus files have the same access rights as the video to which they are linked;
- Geolocation tab:
- See behavior described above;
- Metadata tab:
- See behavior described above;
- Trailers tab:
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- Add clips: trailer or interviews. These extracts can come from Youtube/Vimeo/Dailymotion but also from the Kinow video source;
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6th step: adding other content than films / videos
> CMS Contrent / Pages
- Very interesting for editorialization, for example: presentation of partners / logos, legal notices, welcome booklet, subscription offers, FAQ, exclusives, focus on a guest, information on a pre-release, ...;
- WYSIWYG editor: formatted text, html links, images, Youtube videos, iframes;
- First, create your page in the “Pages” section;
- Once the page is created, select where this page will be displayed on the platform in Display settings / Widgets