Thumbnail preview when sending text or posting to Facebook

[Enviropix]

Hello GN Team,

I have a request... as a former Panotour Pro user, after I uploaded my tours and when I would share them via text on my iPhone or on Facebook, the initial panorama would be displayed as a thumbnail, but this feature is not available when I send your links.

Here are some examples of what I mean with a screen grab from my iPhone X. The top link with the thumbnail is from this link: enviropix.com/tours/undertow/2018.html and was made with Panotour Pro

And the bottom was 360niche.com/tours/undertow/voyage3/vtour.html and was created in Pano2VR

So is this something you guys can duplicate in the future?

Thanks!

Jeff

[Hopki]

Hi Jeff,
Just select add for for external embedding as found under the HTML tab and the Edit Template button.
Please see this page: LINK.
Example: LINK
Regards,
Hopki

[Enviropix]

Awesome! Thanks so much for your help and Happy Christmas to you and the team!

Cheers,

Jeff

[Enviropix]

Happy New Year!

So is there a "key" of sorts to learn the programing behind the template?

Such as from my screenshot example here: where it says $(upt) I mean what does "upt" stand for and why use a $ sign? Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but I'd like to be the Master of my Tour Templates

Thanks!

Jeff

[360Texas]

For a list of placeholders for Pano2vr you only need to look in Pano2vr 6.0 for "Placeholders" in the extensive documentaion:

How to use:
https://ggnome.com/doc/pano2vr/6/using-placeholders/

List:
https://ggnome.com/doc/pano2vr/6/placeh ... kin-editor

Hope this helps

[Tony]

Hi Jeff,

Happy New Year to you too.

So is there a "key" of sorts to learn the programing behind the template?

You can find information about the html templates here https://ggnome.com/doc/pano2vr/5/html-template/

where it says $(upt) I mean what does "upt" stand for and why use a $ sign?

Hopki can probably give you a better explanation but as far as I know the $ sign, in a placeholder, makes them more flexible and allows them to be used elsewhere in a skin, for example in a variable.

A list of placeholders can be found at https://ggnome.com/doc/pano2vr/6/placeholders-list/ however there doesn't seem to be a reference for $(upt) but it takes the Title entered in the User Data fields and uses it for the Title of the html page.

cheers,

Tony

[Enviropix]

Thanks everyone for helping with that simple yet challenging aspect of my tour building knowledge. What had been escaping me was how to add a thumbnail image when sharing the tour and of course the title. And what I figured out with all of your help was to use the "Master Node" for the addition of the Title and the edit html settings page for the thumbnail.

Best,

Jeff

[Hopki]

Hi Jeff,
Happy new year to you.
You can actually just overtype the placeholder with the title of the page.
Also under the HTML tab you will see a page size, this sets the size of the thumbnail image.
As an example Facebook likes 1,200 x 630 pixels.
Regards,
Hopki