Add Video Button

It is so hard for new members to upload a video, its so embedded. Is there any way i can make a short cut to add on the home or video page?

Many thanks

I know where the button is located, but i don't know how to move it to be relevant. Has anyone done this before?

I guess i'll have to figure this one out.

Can you make a html block and then add your link?

I can give that a shot. thanks for the idea

i cant get the profile and album links mate.

Anyone know what i need to put in the NEW ITEM box if i want to add this member menu, through Page Builder? Checked in PHPmyadmin and i seen the sys_object_actions table. Its not very clear to me.

Anyone? :)

i'm looking for the same issue but in photos, if you find a solution please share it

Alright, i will do!

Everytime i try to add this button, i always get the button opening a new blank browser tab.

Pretty please? ;D

Did you try what I accidentally deleted?

that's almost funny

Can you send a picture of the blak bowser tab?      areyou talkig about the quick lin being empy? or an actual new browser tab?  Did you add it to the quick link in the dash board?

Hiya, this is the button i made:

and heres what happens when i click it:

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

last cry for help..

Yes i would also like to know how to do this let me know if you find a way for it to work. :)

I FOUND IT!!! 

Go to member menu add new item and type in what you want to call it such as video upload. Then for the link put the link for the video upload page. Then for your icon put it in the icons folder. If you want to see mine 

Hi Dean -- can you put up a link to a screenshot so i can see what you have put in for your NEW ITEM box? :D

I seen your site and your button.

when i click the button, it is taking me to your album, not mine. Thought i would let you know

could you put it again please?

He didn't write anything....

I came from the Xoops CMs, which uses smarty tags to made this kind of things, i think there must be a way to do but i don't know

this makes me very sad.

Rather than add to your members confusion by adding additional navigation, why don't you create a tutorial that shows your members the entire process of creating albums and adding media.

great idea

it is a way but think it's a poor way to solve the problem, dolphin needs more flexibility to be more than a dating system and a lot of us uses it in another ways

my web it's a free photographer's community and to make it go i'd to pay for many mods to adapt it, with more flexibility there were more contributions from people like me (with a little aknowledge)

sorry for my poor english

I feel that the next version of d7, should improve admins ability to direct our members to certain areas.

Like Houston says, creating tool tips to inform users, or little javascript pop ups, is a real good idea. Like a cookie'd info pop up. Like many sites have when you first join. That is surely something I am working on myself.

I am working to solve this issue to add a "add pix" button to a more visible area, along with sound and vid. Has not been simple, and I am not a pro with a lot of knowledge here.

But what I have done is create a PHP block that displays the members photos albums on the home page.  Now I know some of the new upgrades have an easy way to do this, but mine I had to go to PHPmy admin from my cpanel, click my database>sys_page_compose, then found _bx_photos_albums (mine was numbered 216). Then I opened a new tab, pulled up the same page of my database and clicked insert from the top menu bar, and duplicated (by looking back at the other tab in my browser) the original _bx_photos_albums. But i renamed it  '_photos_albums_index', and for "Page", I changed it to "Index". Everything else the same.

Cleared my cache, and there it was in my page builder block, I dragged it to where I wanted. Then went to settings> language settings, and clicked "add key." Enter "_photos_albums_index" into key name slot, then in the string text, I put, "Click photo album to add pix"

Now all that should be on front page. The member only will see there own photo album(s). Once they click it, it brings them to there profile/albums page. I adjusted the css of the "Click here to add more" spot. Im adding a clearer button there, that attracts more attention.

woa, now that I look more close Womiweb, I see the little button, you made. That is a great place for that. But I surely dont know how to add a link to it. Hey boonux, why dont you do this for us!? That is the reason for that bar and all!

Its difficult, with my limited (very) knowledge, on how to "link" this, because each person has a diff url to go to to add stuff. There must be some php command, or some kind of magic trick to do that. I would also like to know, cuz your idea is way better.

Here is the closest thing that I can figure besides PHP blocks.

http://yoursite.com/m/photos/albums/my/main/'.'_self

Exchange your site, and use videos, blogs, sounds, whatever in place of photos, for whichever page.

Should get the to the members spot, but still, the member needs to press "click here" up at the top. All I can figure is replace that area with something more prominent and noticeable.