vBulletin questions

[Professor S]

I'll be presenting the benefits on vBulletin to my company soon as a way to mediate the social and communciation risks of moving to a work from home environment. I'd like to use you all as a resource, if I could.

First question: How do I enable the embed feature to allow people insert YouTube videos directly into the threads?

Thanks in advance.

[Bond]

You have to enable HTML, which requires a lot of trust of the members.

[Professor S]

I did, and it still didn't work. Can you specifiy the exact area I need to go to enable it? Maybe I'm in the wrong admin panel...

[Bond]

Oh, sorry, didn't understand what you meant.

Try this: Forums & Moderators -> Forum Manager -> Edit Forum (Go) -> Enable/Disable Features -> Yes to Allow HTML -> Save.

[Professor S]

Still doesn't work. Its just shows the code as this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0...</param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344">

[Dyne]

You need to enable it per subform, like Bond is saying. I think you can turn it on forum-wide in the general options, but any subforum that is set to "HTML off" specifically will bypass that.

[Professor S]

Did it in the subforum's first. I am so confused...

I'm using the trial version. Do you think that's the problem?

[Bond]

There must be some kind of universal setting like Dyne was talking about. I can't find it right now for some reason. I'll have another look over the weekend.

[Bond]

Professor, I looked around the vB control panel some more today, and I just can't find any other options to turn HTML on. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

If you have any other questions just let me know.

[gekko]

If you don't want to enable HTML, you can create custom vB tags which are then parsed. So you should be able to do link or something similar.