We have a ruby on rails learning app. We have imported various Google Slides presentations using embed code. We are aware an API exists with a Ruby Gem to create/import slides within our APP (https://developers.google.com/slides/)
But we need greater control over the slides. Is there no Google Player API ? We need to detect start and stop points essentially. This will help us set a completion flag and also show and hide our player buttons. Otherwise the user will see our player buttons and the google player buttons... It seems other people have similar issues and need more control over the player aspects as I've seen similar posts. Please help!!!
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I am using Ralyxa to built alexa skill.
I have been able to develop the skill for voice only device but finding it difficult to implement the same in multi-modal devices using the above gem.
I have used cards to display the text on the screen but the how to implement Scroll Up and Down functionality or Page Up and Down etc that are specifically to view enabled devices.
For all Ruby developers out there wanting to implement multi modal services (scroll up/down, Page up/down etc) in ruby using the above mentioned gem, let me tell you that this gem does not provide this functionality as of now.
So a workaround which I found out was passing custom response for implementing display directives for each request as a response and it worked.
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: It is just a workaround for those who doesn't have the time to switch to Node or AWS Lambda. Otherwise the best way forward is to implement the same functionality using node ask sdk.
As Google Tag Manager released the new update for built in variables for Youtube, I followed this tutorial of Simo Ahava for Youtube tracking: https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/the-youtube-video-trigger-in-google-tag-manager/
However, when I test my website in Preview mode, there is no gtm.video data layer. Because of that, there is no tag firing.
Any help will be appreciated, and if you believe my website has this video embedded code hidden, here is my page with video: https://www.magestore.com/magento-store-manager
Thank you!
Edited: Even if there is no gtm.video in Preview Mode, the tag actually still fires. You can check it in Real time mode of GA or wait until GA collects enough data.
We are having an issue with this functionality as well. We followed Simo's blog to implement and as of yesterday the functionality has become very unstable. We maybe have the tag firing 1 out of 20 page loads. We have tried loading the iframe_api as the first script. We have changed the ordering of the scripts. Something seems wrong with the code from Google.
I should also add that's it's not just the gtm.preview but if you publish the changes you will not see gtm.video firing with any regularity.
We think that GTM and YT API don't work well together - as per this post.
Google Tag Manager & Youtube Conflict
I'm a professor and want to start making several short micro-lessons with embedded questions for my students to test their knowledge along the way. I've been researching some new Youtube beta features "Questions" and "Linking my Youtube Channel with my website (google site, google+, etc)
I had access to the beta "Questions" option a few days ago and it's gone now. I can edit existing annotation which includes a true/false question I added, but I can no longer see the option to add new question. Can you help me?
Can set up questions within the video that have a definite correct answer vs incorrect, and then sort through analytics to see how viewers did?
Is there a way to have different outcomes for viewers depending on whether they answered correctly (congratulations screen) vs incorrectly(rewind and replay a section of the video, then repeat question)?
Is there a way for viewers who complete the video and answer correctly to forward a "Congratulations screen" to their instructors for possible credit on assignments?
Lastly, Is there a way to integrate Google presentation with YouTube video (e.g.create slideshow in "presentation" for easier conversion to video w/ voice)? Right now I use a three step process: 1) create presentation in PPT, 2) voiceover the slides and make a video in "Captivate", then 3) upload to Youtube.
Thank you so much
I don't think that your question, as asked, has to do with the YouTube API.
That being said, we do have this blog post and tutorial video up for an open source project that integrates YouTube video content with quiz content: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/06/google-io-tutorials-using-ruby-on-rails.html
OK, so I've set up a website where the content is split into modals that are hidden. There are links on the page that when clicked on, the relevant modal appears. I want to be able to track the links being clicked on so I can see what content is being viewed by users. Ideally I want the data to appear as fake pageviews. I know this used to be possible but not sure how to do it nowadays.
I can't seem to find any decent up to date documentation online for how to do this. Can anyone shed some light?
Once you have the Analytics initialized for asynchrounous, just call
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', 'FAKE_URL']);
This should work and will not slow down your page load. You might want to consider using "events" rather than fake page views; it's also quite simple
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', "EVENT NAME", "PARAMETER"]);
See Google's Documentation for more info.
I have a website where I want to basically allow people to display several youtube videos onto the same page.
For example, I have a friend who has 3 different videos. Instead of sending a link to the three videos individually, they would go to my site see the 3 search boxes, search for the videos individually (the search is done on youtube), then they can pick the videos and click "done", at which point, the 3 videos would be embedded on their page.
I'm trying to figure out how to approach this in ruby on rails, but I'm not finding much information on how.
Here's a link from 2009 of a guy who's saying that he can actually do the search and retrieve from youtube: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=30443
But I don't know how to do the search & retrieve, and I don't know how to do the embed. I think I can figure out the embed, but what's the best way to do the search/display results?
Thanks a lot for your help stackoverflow, you're my only hope (besides google, but google failed me today).
all you need to know about the search feature is described in YouTube Data Api. You will need your app to communicate with this API. The best thing to do may be to look after a gem specialized in this ; there is a list available in another StackOverflow question.