Administrator Guide for Cisco Show and Share 5.6

Enable Hidden Video Rights

By default, authors can restrict access to a video to all users or specific users. If you enable the hidden video rights feature, the author can share the URL of a video that is published with the status of hidden. The published video is not visible on any public page; only the author can see the video in their Uploaded tab. The video author can share a URL link to the hidden video so that other users can view the video.

By default, the hidden video rights feature is disabled.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Settings area under Hidden Rights, check the Allow users to hide videos check box.

To disable hidden video rights, clear the check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Disable General and Timeline Comments

By default, viewers are allowed to enter general or timeline comments. You can disable this option globally.

If comments are allowed globally, authors can disable the ability to comment on a specific video when they publish the video. The setting configured during the video publishing applies to the video being published only. Authors cannot enable commenting for specific videos if comments are disabled globally.

By default, commenting is allowed.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Settings area, under Comments (general and timeline), clear the Allow authenticated user to add general and timeline comments check box.

To enable general and timeline comments, check the check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Disable Anonymous Comments

By default, viewers do not have to log in to leave general or timeline comments (if comments are allowed). If a viewer leaves a comment without being logged in, the comment is attributed to “Anonymous”. You can require users to log in before they can leave comments so that the comment author is known.

If anonymous comments are allowed globally, authors can disable the ability to comment anonymously on a specific video when they publish the video. Authors cannot allow anonymous comments if anonymous comments are disabled globally.

By default, anonymous comments are allowed.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Settings area, under Anonymous Commenting, clear the Allow anonymous visitors to add general and timeline comments check box.

To enable anonymous comments, check this check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Enable Video Ratings

By default, video rating is disabled.

If video ratings are allowed globally, authors can disable the ability to rate a specific video when they publish the video. Authors cannot enable rating for a video if rating is disabled globally.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 To enable rating, check the Video Ratings check box.

To disable rating, clear the check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Disable Tags

By default, viewers can add tags to videos. These tags appear in the tag cloud on the Cisco Show and Share home page.

If tags are allowed globally, authors can disable the ability for viewers to enter tags for a specific video when they publish the video. Authors cannot enable tags for a video if tags are disabled globally.

By default, entering tags is allowed.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Settings area, clear the User Tags check box.

To enable video tags, check the User Tags check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Disable Supplemental File Downloads

By default, viewers can download any supplemental files that video authors publish with their videos. You can disable this capability.

Disabling video downloads does not remove the supplement files from the system. Instead, the Files tab is hidden for videos that have associated downloadable files. If you reenable supplemental file downloads, any content that was previously uploaded becomes available again.

Also, authors can still upload supplemental files with their videos when video downloading is disabled. The files will not be available until file downloading is reenabled.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 To disable file downloading, clear the Downloadable Files check box.

To enable file downloading, check the Downloadble Files check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Video Download

You can enable or disable video download for authors so that they can download videos that they have uploaded to Show and Share. You can also enable or disable video download for Show and Share users. By default, Cisco Show and Share users cannot download videos.

Disabling video download does not remove the video from the system. The download button is hidden when the video download feature is disabled.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Download Video area, select or clear the following check boxes:

• Allow users to download videos
• Allow authors to download videos
• Disable video download

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Disable Video Embedding

By default, viewers can copy an embed code to embed the video into their own web pages. Disabling video embedding removes this option.

By default, the video embed code is available to viewers.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Settings area, clear the Video Embedding check box.

To enable video embedding, check the Video Embedding check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Disable Video Editing

By default, authors can edit videos that are in the draft state. The video editor allows authors to crop videos, create chapters, synchronize slides, and change the video thumbnail.

If you disable the video editor, authors can still upload slides with their video. However, they will not be able to synchronize the slide to the video and the Slides tab will not be available to viewers.

You should disable video editing if your flash video files are not being served from a flash streaming server. Cisco Show and Share uses nondestructive editing. This means that instead of changing the actual video, Cisco Show and Share inserts markers and pointers to indicate the changes. This type of editing requires the video to be served from a Flash streaming server. If the video is being served from another type of server, such as a simple web server, then the edits made by authors will not appear during playback.

If the videos are stored on the Cisco Show and Share server itself, they will be served from a Flash streaming server.

By default, video editing is enabled.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Settings area, clear the Video Editing check box.

To enable video editing, check the Video Editing check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Enable Image Smoothing for Attached Slides

Slide quality may be diminished when they are viewed in the Slides tab. This is caused by the resizing of the slide.jpg file. You can enable image smoothing to enhance the quality of the slides displayed in the slides tab.

By default, image smoothing is disabled.

Limitations and Restrictions

If you are hosting the slides on an external server:

• You must have a crossdomain.xml file in place on the web server that hosts the slide images. See “Set Up File Hosting Locations” , for information about crossdomain.xml files.
• Do not enable this feature if you are using a content delivery system, such as Cisco ACNS or Cisco ECDS, that uses redirects to server content.

If you are hosting the slides (.jpg files) on the Cisco Show and Share appliance, there are no restrictions.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Settings area, check the Image Smoothing check box.

To disable image smoothing, clear the Image Smoothing check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Enable QuickTime Plugin Download

The QuickTime plugin is used to decode H.264 live event streams in Cisco Show and Share. Enabling the plugin download causes Cisco Show and Share to attempt to download the plugin (if needed) for viewers of a live event. If you disable this feature, viewers without the plugin will receive an error message when attempting to view a live H.264 stream.

By default, QuickTime plugin download is enabled.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 To disable this feature, clear the check box under QuickTime Plugin Download in the Settings area.

Step 4 To enable this feature, check the check box under QuickTime Plugin Download in the Settings area.

Step 5 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Disable Access by Anonymous Visitors

By default, anonymous visitors can access Cisco Show and Share to search, browse, filter, and watch public videos. You can disable access to Cisco Show and Share portal and redirect anonymous visitors to the sign-in screen.

Note The forced login feature is active only on the Show and Share portal—not the embedded player, mobile devices, or APIs.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 To disable access by anonymous visitors, check SnS Login Required check box.

To enable access by anonymous visitors, clear the SnS Login Required check box.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Refresh Speaker Cache

The Refresh Cache button is used to update the local user database cache after synchronizing the LDAP server. Refreshing the cache will take from one minute to one hour depending on number of users in system. For 10,000 users, the refresh time is approximately one minute; for 200,000 users, the refresh time is approximately 52 minutes.

The speaker cache automatically refreshes daily at 12:00 AM. If an automatic refresh is in process, clicking the Refresh Cache button has no effect. The speaker cache limit is 200,000 users.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 To refresh the local user database cache, click the Refresh Cache button.

The Cache refresh in process message appears. Allow up to one hour for completion depending on the number of users in the database.

Configure a Custom Help Link

By default, the help link in the upper right corner of the Cisco Show and Share page points to information on Cisco.com. You can change the target of this help link, allowing you to point to your own standards, policies, and procedures for using Cisco Show and Share.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Preferences area, type the URL of your help information in the System Help Link field.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Configure a Custom Footer

By default, the footer on the bottom of each Cisco Show and Share page provides information about Cisco Systems. You can replace the default footer text and add your company information.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Preferences area, type your company information in the Footer Preference field.

To restore the default footer text, clear your company information from the Footer Preference field.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Configure the Acceptable Use Policy Link

By default, the Warranty and End-User License Agreement link on the bottom of each Cisco Show and Share page points to information on Cisco.com. You can change the target of this link, allowing you to point to your own acceptable use policy for using Cisco Show and Share.

Procedure

Step 1 Choose Administration from the global navigation.

Step 2 Choose Manage > Preferences and Settings.

Step 3 In the Preferences area, type the URL of your help information in the Acceptable Use Policy Link field.

Step 4 Click Apply to save your changes and make them active for site visitors.

Change the “Contact Your Administrator” Link

The Contact your administrator link appears on the Cisco Show and Share login page. It is associated with the superuser account.

Clicking this link opens up an e-mail message with the subject “DMM: Forgotten Password” and the superuser e-mail address in the To field.

To change the e-mail address, you must change the e-mail address associated with the superuser account. See the Users and Groups chapter in the User Guide for Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.3.x for information about how to change the e-mail address:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/video/digital_media_systems/5_x/5_3/dmm/user/guide/dmsug53x.html

Change Language Settings

See Chapter 11, “Customize Show and Share”, for information about the language settings.

Enable Mobile Application Access

See Chapter 13, “Enable Mobile Application Access”, for information about enabling mobile client access.

Enable Pulse Video Analytics Feature Set

See Chapter 14, “Enable Pulse Spoken Keyword and Speaker Identification”, for information about enabling the Pulse video analytics feature set.