How to Add a YouTube video to a dashboard

In this post I'm going to be showing you how to add a youtube video to a dashboard in Softools. This can be great for introduction and instructional videos to help speed up adoption.

The video explaining this is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Gwv5XmD-o

To add google calendar to a dashboard in Softools you need to use an iFrame

To do this, first go to dashboards in app studio and add a new one, labelling it as you see fit – for this example I have simply used YouTube Demo

For layout, click 1x1 (1 column and 1 row) and ensure you click “is global” so that this can be seen on a homepage rather than a singular app

Next you need to scroll down to dashboard layout and click the end button of </> as shown:

This allows you to use iFrames where you can embed URLs to access different websites through a Softools dashboard 

Go to the website that you want to embed, in this example, a YouTube video.

Then go to the YouTube video, right click and select copy embedding link and paste it into the dashboard URL - delete all of the information after the set of quotation marks 

Select the required width and height (we suggest 1200 width and 800 height) and then set the alignment to centre with a transparent background

Click save

Go to the homepage section of app studio

Create a new homepage and label it as you see fit

At the bottom click the second button to use a dashboard

Select the dashboard you just created and save

Go to workspace, sign out and sign back in (for homepages this is required as you cannot simply resync it)

This should now be shown as the dashboard shown