How can I create a "View" that shows videos thumbnails for videos embedded in Toolset Posts as custom fields and, when I click on the video thumbnail in "View", to have a link that opens the corresponding Post?
What I tried is:
1. Create a post and insert the View block.
2. Use Toolset blocks to add dynamic fields to the template as follows:
Add Block
Single Fiels
Custom Field
Curent Post
Custom Field Groups
A custom field with embedded video
The problem is that, when I click the video I open the video instead of being able to have a link with the Post containing the video.
From what I see you essentially want a clickable image that will link to the post itself.
In this case you won't be able to do it by calling the embedded video custom field as our Plugin will always give the video output.
What you essentially need is an image field that can serve as the thumbnail and can be clickable. This way you can use the image block dynamic link settings to add the post URL. See Screenshot
Once you've done this your image will be clickable on the frontend.
Thank you for your prompt answer. If I had in my posts a custom field with images the solution wold work fine. I could use the image block dynamic link settings to add the post URL.
The problem is that in my posts I have only one custom field, which is an embedded video, therefore with no images. How can I automatically (dynamically), not manually, generate images from the video thumbnail embedded in the post?
Is there a way to:
1) in the post: generate from the video an image thumbnail in a post field and then
2) in the view: use the image block dynamic link?
How can I automatically (dynamically), not manually, generate images from the video thumbnail embedded in the post?
This is not possible to do except through custom coding which would be out of our support scope.
Is there a way to:
1) in the post: generate from the video an image thumbnail in a post field and then
2) in the view: use the image block dynamic link?
This would be possible to do with custom coding but where would you store the thumbnail. If this is a default post type like Post then you should be able to substitute the custom image field with the featured image field.
However apart from this there is no other way to do it and I would highly recommend a dedicated thumbnail field for this.
