Playlists

A playlist is a list of videos that helps the audience reach the same type of content or content that can be related to the last watched video. There are different types of playlists that VP Player offers:

• Manual Playlists
• Dynamic Playlists
• Trending Playlists

After creating a playlist it can be added as a recommended playlist of the player or directly embedded in the same way as videos.

Manual Playlists

The manual playlist is the type of playlist that allows the users to choose the exact videos we want to add on the list and how to arrange them.

Create a Manual Playlist

After successfully reaching the Playlist page, the page where all the existing playlists are listed, you can follow the steps below to create a Manual playlist.

1. Click on the Create new playlist button.

2. After the modal is opened, choose Manual.

3. Click on the Create button.

   

4. Enter the Playlist Title

5. Enter the Playlist Description

6. Search for specific videos by searching with keywords on the search box. Videos will be filtered based on the title. This step is optional.

   

7. To add videos to the Manual playlist, we manually drag and drop videos, from the Latest content box (left) to the playlist box (right)

8. To arrange the order of videos within the playlist you can simply drag and drop them the same way

9. Click the Update playlist button when you are done adding videos.

10. The Manual Playlist is created and will be listed on the Playlists page.

    

Dynamic Playlists

Dynamic Playlists are lists of videos created using different sorting methodologies based on the user's preferences. You can choose to include/exclude videos with different tags, flags and sort them with different methods.

There are 4 sorting methods that can be used in a dynamic playlist:

• Most recently published(this sorting will list first the newest published video)
• Older First(this sorting will list first the oldest published video)
• Title A - Z (this sorting will sort videos alphabetically)
• Title Z - A (this sorting will sort video alphabetically backward)

Create a Dynamic Playlist

After successfully reaching the Playlist page, the page where all the existing playlists are listed, you can follow the steps below to create a Dynamic playlist.

1. Click on the Create new playlist button

2. After modal is opened, choose Dynamic

3. Click on Create playlist button

   

4. Enter the Playlist Title

5. Select the sorting order of the playlist. In this case we are selecting Most recently published. The playlist will be refreshed automatically with the new content listed in it after every change in the configuration of the playlist.

6. Enable Include videos with tags

7. Select the relation between tags Any/All:

   • Any means “list the videos that match any of the tags below.
   • All means “list the videos that match all of the tags below”.
   • This same logic applies to tags, flags and folders as well.

8. Add tags for the Include videos with tags. Tags can be added by writing in the field and hitting enter. To remove a Tag simply click on the x button

   NOTE: Follow the same steps if you want to add tags for Exclude videos with Tags. The list will exclude videos that match those tags.

   

9. Enable Include videos with flags

10. Select or search Flags. Flags can be searched by writing in the field. To remove a Flag simply click on the x button NOTE: Follow the same steps if you want to add flags for Exclude videos with Flags

    

11. To filter videos from specific folders, choose the folders you want videos from. Folders can be searched by writing in the field. To remove a Folder simply click on the x button.

12. Select the size of the playlist by adding a positive integer in the List length field.

13. Click the Update playlist button when you are done filtering and sorting videos.

14. The Dynamic Playlist is created and will be listed in the Playlist page.

Trending Playlists

Trending Playlists are playlists created through a trending algorithm that VP Player offers. In Trending Playlists, the user can include/exclude videos based on different tags or flags, as well as filter by folders.

Create a Trending Playlist

After successfully reaching the Playlist page, the page where all the existing playlists are listed, you can follow the steps below to create a Trending playlist.

1. Click on the Create new playlist button.

2. After the modal opens, choose Trending.

3. Click on Create Playlist button.

4. Enter the Playlist Title.

5. Enable Include videos with tags.

6. Select the relation between tags Any/All.

   • Any means "list the videos that match any of the tags below"
   • All means "list the videos that match all of the tags below"

7. This same logic applies to tags, flags and folders as well.

8. Add tags for the Include videos with tags. Tags can be added by writing in the field and hitting enter.

9. To remove a Tag simply click on the x button.

   NOTE: Follow the same steps if you want to add tags for Exclude videos with Tags

   

10. Enable Include videos with flags

11. Select or search Flags. Flags can be searched by writing in the field.

12. To remove a Flag simply click on the x button

    NOTE: Follow the same steps if you want to add flags for Exclude videos with Flags

    

13. To filter videos from specific folders, choose the folders you want videos from.

14. Folders can be searched by writing in the field.

15. To remove a Folder simply click on the x button.

16. Select the size of the playlist by adding a positive integer in the List length field.

17. Click the Update playlist button when you are done with filtering videos.

18. The Trending Playlist is created and will be listed on the Playlist page.

Edit/Delete Playlists

1. Go to Playlists on the left navigation bar.
2. Click on the three dots on the right side of the name of the playlists
3. Click on Edit to make changes to the playlist. NOTE: You can't edit the type of a playlist, that is something that can be configured only while creating a playlist
4. Click on Delete to remove the playlist from the list.