It should be clear to a user which media can be embedded [#2938804]

Since the media embed option in 1.7, users can paste links from different social channels to embed it in posts, comments and description fields.
It is not clear to a user which channels are supported by Open Social.
'Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Youtube, Slideshare, Soundcloud, Spotify, TED, Twitter, Vimeo and a few more.' https://lets.getopensocial.com/embed_media_in_content

This is reported by a customer (PAC), since they don't want people hit-and-miss, especially on posts/comments. (because the description fields show a preview first).

Comment	File	Size	Author
#11	add_form_description-2938804-11.patch	1.07 KB	dcgoodwin
#10	add_form_description-2938804-10.patch	1.07 KB	dcgoodwin
#5	opensocial-embed-in-wysiwyg.png	88.1 KB	jaapjan

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Comments

Comment #1

23 January 2018 at 09:38

Evelienschut created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

ronaldtebrake CreditAttribution: ronaldtebrake as a volunteer and for Open Social commented 31 January 2018 at 15:17

Issue tags:

+Novice

Comment #3

sameeran joshi CreditAttribution: sameeran joshi commented 24 February 2018 at 12:58

i am newbie,could you plz tell me which files should i change in the module?thanku

Comment #4

sameeran joshi CreditAttribution: sameeran joshi commented 24 February 2018 at 19:05

also a detailed installation of embedding a link could be helpful,thanks

Comment #5

jaapjan CreditAttribution: jaapjan commented 26 February 2018 at 11:53

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opensocial-embed-in-wysiwyg.png	88.1 KB

Hi there,

There are multiple ways of embedding a link. Prerequisite is that the social_embed module is enabled (this is the only installation step). After that:

1. You can do it via the WYSIWYG editor in the Description/Body when you create a new topic/event/page.
2. You can post a compatible link in any comment or post and it will convert to an embed object automatically.

I think we should first focus on the description for 1. I suggest we add the description here:
Embed in WYSIWYG

I think you can add this description:
"You can post a link to Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Spotify, Twitter, Vimeo, Youtube and Ted.com and it will automatically convert to a embedded media object."

I am not entirely sure what would be the best way to do this but I think it would be best if you implement a hook_form_alter in the social_embed.module to alter the form which is displayed after clicking the button in the WYSIWYG.