Test new TBA feature

[Greg Marra]

Any brave website people want to test a new feature of The Blue Alliance Match Archive System?

It lets you embed your team's match videos right in your own website with a skinned player.

If you're interested, PM me and reply here

[SSMike]

Sounds cool but what would we have to do?

[Tottanka]

im interested in that thing too, whough no matches of my team on TBA.
Is it possible to get there an event statistics too?

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by SSMike

Sounds cool but what would we have to do?

To be eligible for this test, you need to have permissions to edit your team's website and be able to stick an iframe on a page somewhere. I'm going to make the feature super simplified in the future, but right now it's a bit rough so it helps if you have an understanding of HTML and such already.

Thanks!
-Greg

[Fred Sayre]

Yeah, I run an active testing website for the team and would love for a better alternative to youtube, and especially if all the archived matches from around the net were available.

[chris31]

Our website isnt used very much but I would love to embed statistics and videos from TBA on our website.

[Tim Arnold]

Count MARS in !

[wilsonmw04]

2106 is fleshing out our site now. we'd love to help.

[Guy Davidson]

Once we get our new website up, Team 8 would love to help test this new feature.

[synth3tk]

964 is changing our site (domain and all) completely. It'll be ready in about a month, so count me in for sure.

[fimmel]

im in for team 885's site. let me know what i have to do

[Greg Marra]

New Feature in Testing!

What is it?

The feature is an embeddable iframe that lets you put your team's videos straight on your team's website. It also lets you put just videos for one event, or (in the case you run a Regional's website) the videos from an entire event.

The iframe can be customized with your team's colors so as to best fit into your team's page! You can see it in action on The Green Team's site or by itself here.

How to add to your team's site!

To add it to your site, add the following code to your site where you want it to appear:

<iframe src="http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/iframe_playlist.php?frontcolor=ffcc00&backcolor=660000&lightcolor=ffff00&year=2007&team=177" frameborder="0" height="470" width="395" scrolling="no"/>

To customize it, modify the "src" property of the iframe with the colors, year, and team number that you want.
"?frontcolor=ffcc00&backcolor=660000&lightcolor=ffff00&year=2007&team=177"

Optionally, you can set event=<eventid> and it will filter for just that event. The eventid's can be found by viewing an event page on TBA and looking at the URL.

Show us it!

If anyone runs into any trouble implementing it, let me know and I will work with you to figure out what's wrong. If you do add it to your team's site, drop a link here so everyone can see your color scheme and team in action!

Thanks!

[cbale2000]

This is a great idea, I was actually thinking of getting something like this on our website for youtube videos (our video gallery was extremely lacking), but if we could do the same thing for videos from the Blue alliance, it would save us the trouble of having to upload our own in a lot of cases.

I'll talk to some of the other website designers and see if I can get this on there!


EDIT: I did manage to test it out on our team forums using a DoHTML tag, It gave me the player with the videos but it also had a lot of extra code showing, not sure weather that was just the forum doing that or if it's a glitch. Thought it was worth mentioning. Also, when I tried to use my team number no videos showed up on the list, I could only get it to work with the default settings.

[Jonathan Norris]

Wow great job Blue Aliance crew, I'll update our site with it soon (http://robotics.crescentschool.org). You guys are still missing some matches from GTR and Waterloo from last year that I have, contact me if you want me to upload them to you.

[synth3tk]

Minor unrelated technicalities with our site. I'll still try to test it if we get it up soon.