Steps in Skinning KDP

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Thu, 05/21/2009 - 23:45

Joined: 05/06/2009

Points: 9

Howdy,

Trying to change the visual appearance of such things as the "poster frame" play button when a video is queued into KDP.

Is it still necessary today with the current CMS to use the 'testmeconsole' from ( http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/partnerservices2/testme ) ?

If so, what are the steps? Reading the thread from the archive is a tad cryptic. It appears that one needs to create an admin session; then create a UI conf; then add a widget which apparently needs to be done after starting a user rather than an admin session.

Are these steps still valid / required?

What params on the create a UI conf are likely to be changed by the inexperienced author? What ducks need to be in order before creating the new UI conf?

Is this somewhat opaque process documented anywhere? If not, are there scrawls on the dungeon walls I can use to slink through the escape tunnel to the relative freedom of focusing on developing rather than hoop jumping??? (No offense to the Kaltura...... but, these are critical hurdles for virtually any integrator)

Thanks,

Smallhands

Sat, 05/23/2009 - 08:47

Kalturian

Joined: 01/05/2009

Points: 1697

Hi smallhands,

This is a great question.

On the upcoming (will be out of closed beta very soon) version of the KMC (Kaltura Management Console) - you will be able to use a new environment (Application Studio) to skin and customize your KDP.

At the moment we are working on documentation for this part of the platform of creating uiConf and customizing widgets and it should be up in the coming days on the relevant projects documentation and guides (for KDP in two days).

If you would like to do it yourself now - you'd have to follow the process of using the testme console in the following steps:

Create an admin KS (using startsession and your admin secret).
Clone your partner uiConf (its id is _pid where pid is your partner id), using the cloneuiconf service.
Call updateuiconf providing the uiConf xml you created on the uiconf_confFile field.

There is yet a full documentation up for the uiConf (will be in two days) - currently you can use your partner uiConf as a base for the changes.