How to use Zoom within your BuddyBoss Community | BuddyBoss Platform Pro Tutorials
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- In this tutorial, you will learn how to connect a Zoom account with your community, so you can schedule and view meetings and recordings, in Gutenberg blocks and in social groups!
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Fantastic! It's really nice to see how closely Buddyboss is listening to its customers and paying attention to how the world is now using the software. I was really relieved to hear that you've prioritized recurring meetings and webinars. When that happens, one could practically run an entire virtual summit from BuddyBoss+Zoom+LearnDash+Stripe.
Exactly! Those features will come. Recurring meetings are a bit tricky to sync back and forth so we're taking our time to make sure that all works properly first.
Wow... this is awesome! Are there plans to be able to stream the meeting directly into the members area rather than redirecting them to zoom? Similar to how you can stream zoom meetings directly into a Facebook feed?
Great Buddyboss! You guys are the best! I am definitely sticking with you all as long as you are in business. I am very proud to be part of this movement.
Thank you!
THIS. IS. ABSOLUTLY. BEAUTIFUL! And thanks for that step-by-step help for group leaders. It's clearly going to be a challenge to accompany each of them, but at least they have something to help them take charge!
Awesome, thanks!
I just opened and liked the video before watching. Zoom Zoom. Am so glad you have added tutor lms to your roadmap for the BuddyBoss Theme.
Zoom Zoom
We get a lot of requests for Tutor LMS, it will come
I have been using the Platform Pro and I generally thankful for the Zoom intergration. Really works superbly
Awesome! Thank you @Ness :)
this is a killing feature. we ve been excited about it since the first announcement, thank you BB
Awesome, thanks!!
Looking good. Is there any way to have that Zoom tab on individual profiles yet, as opposed to just groups? I give private lessons to students so would ideally want their lessons initiated and stored inside their profile. Cheers.
Not yet, but we will surely consider this. Thanks!
@@BuddybossWP please do!
Hello! I was studying a zoom+zapier solution to integrate Zoom in my future BuddyBoss Platform.
This is a great work! Thanks a lot!
As for now, your pro themes and plugins are fully compatible with Elementor (Pro), isn't it ?
So a question remains for me : Is it possible to use new zoom integration features in a platform "built with" Elementor ?
Thanks again!
Regards
Yay! I love you guys!
You are so wonderful! Really beautiful work. You are improving the quality of life for many of us 🤍
We love you too! Thanks for the positive feedback.
This is so amazing, it would be great to have a calendar view with monthly and weekly scheduled meetings on one page.
Thanks for the suggestion, we will consider it!
I've been waiting for this, great job guys!
Thank you!
Thank you for this update. Its a great feature to be added. However small businesses like ours will be forced to have only 9 groups with zoom integration enabled in the Pro plan. After that we will be forced to upgrade to higher plans. Even Pro plan for zoom is pretty expensive since it per host costing. Wouldnt it be better to consider needs of customers with small businesses and let the groups allow default host to create meetings? For instance i want to create groups based on courses. So how will i be able to do it now? For each group should i also purchase a zoom host account?
This is absolutely fantastic. I'll be adding this to our website today.
The only nit I see is your choice of a generic shortcode. zoom_meeting might clash with another future plugin not from BB.
Thanks again for the great work. Makes me glad I have a lifetime license :-)
Bill
Awesome! Thanks for your positive feedback.
Wow! So happy with this and just what I was waiting for. 🥳
Thank you all!
Awesome!
Great news and excellent move! You guys are giving me a reason everyday to prove that my decision to invest in your platform and theme was right!
Suggestions:
1) play the meeting from within the buddyboss frontend (embedded player powered by Zoom)
2) Do you have any plans to do the integration with GoToWebinars?
Thanks!
1) This only works for non-password protected Zooms, and even then the embeddable web player Zoom API provides is a degraded experience from their native web view. If you click to open the meeting from Zoom it asks you if you want to open in web vs app anyways and their native web view is better than their embeddable one. We had this for a bit and removed it because the experience wasn't great actually.
2) No plans as of now. We do plan to support Zoom's Webinar feature.
@@BuddybossWP Thank you for your reply and clarification!
@@BuddybossWP Hello again BB team, what is your expected date for the Zoom's Webinar integration?
@@talal.thabet It's in the final testing phases right now. It should be live next month.
Wow. Just Wow. What webinar platforms will be supported?
Glad you like it! We will support Zoom's webinar feature zoom.us/webinar . Within Zoom admin you can pay to add webinar capabilities to specific Zoom users in your account. We will allow those users to host webinars within our integration.
Great New Feature! This is a game-changer for sure.
Awesome!
Killer feature! Can't wait to get my hands on the download
Awesome, thanks!!
random question - is there a way to 'embed' the zoom stream within one's community?
ie: if one wanted to set up some sort of 'livestream' like situation that wasn't on a 'pre-set schedule'?
That would be nice.
Web or app, at this time, Zoom cannot be embedded in a community site, their API is very limited for that and is not much friendly or enabling developers to improve or tweak their layout but surely, we will still consider this.
Thanks, great feature! Have you thought of something like streamyard or similar to have live streaming in the community?
We don't have option to live stream at the moment. If we get enough requests for this feature, we'll consider building into the product.
@@BuddybossWP ok thanks!
You're welcome!
@@BuddybossWP Ecamm Live Integration please :)
THANK YOU!!! My question is about our teachers hosting zoom meetings in their class groups. We have a main Zoom account. We purchased a license for each teacher. I was hoping that we could simply allow them to use that licensed account to go through the setup wizard. But, even when they sign in under that licensed user, Zoom still associated it with our main account and doesn't let them create a new App. We can not simply allow our licensed users to do this? They will need a whole new Zoom account that is stand alone from ours? Thank you all soooooo much!
We wanted to keep it all in house under our master account because we want to keep the recordings...on our cloud account.
This is really great, I use GoTo Webinar and wanted to ask if you plan to integrate it. too?
Thank you for your feedback! We will consider this.
Great feature :-) but it will be better to embed the Zoom directly on my groups no?
Awesome! Thanks for the suggestion.
Absolutely I love it as much as you guys do. Thanx for this!!
Great!! We are glad to hear that.
This is great! There is a 3 party wordpress app out there that allows an actual zoom meeting to be viewed anywhere on the wordpress site. Will this be something you will add to your integration?
You can visit our website at www.buddyboss.com/integration-form/ to submit an integration for this plugin so our Team can further test its compatibility with our BuddyBoss Theme/Platform
I created a meeting scheduled for 6 am Vancouver time. I then used my VPN to simulate being in the Philippines, assuming the time and countdown would adjust accordingly. It remained still on Vancouver time and the countdown clock remained the same as well.
Great job! Super glad I got the lifetime deal. Got everything set up flawlessly... except my site is built with Elementor Pro. Is there a work around to get it to show in the activity feed? Short code only goes to page and results not reflected in bb activity, groups or notifications?
Thanks! We are only creating activity feed posts and notifications for groups, not for the shortcodes or Gutenberg blocks right now.
But will it work when using Elementor and not Gutenberg?
@@BuddybossWP I'd like to know about the question below (I'm using Elementor, will it work with Gutenberg?)
Thank you very much for your work! Please tell me if it is possible to create a page to display all available instructors, thanks
There is no default option at the moment in our theme and platform but if you are using LearnDash, you may check with Learndash if they have an available shortcode to displays all available instructors.
@@BuddybossWP thanks!
Hi, I noticed that if you have a lot of meetings, the page will only show 13 meetings and no more. How can I make sure all of them are visible?
Hey! Such a great feature - I'm super excited! The only thing I'm struggling with is the 'one zoom account per social group' thing. I'm a small business owner, teaching several online courses, and I add a social group to each course. Being the only teacher in all these courses, I'm the only one hosting zoom meetings (so no interfering meetings at the same time), but I cannot have a ton of different zoom accounts... Is there a way to work around this?
You can enter your single Zoom account credentials into each group. It will work. You can use the same Zoom app for all of them. But just be careful not to schedule two meetings at the same time.
@@BuddybossWP Ah thanks, I guess I misunderstood! Very happy about this:)
Awesome! :)
woow this is just what i was wishing to have in my future social website , i only have one critical question if you can help me , im wondering wich HOSTING PROVIDER is the best for BuddyBoss website , assuming that my website will be used by 300.000 persones .. im just worry about wich one i should use and wich type of hosting i chould use ? thnx for your help
We recommend VPS Hosting or better - Social communities increase server resource load with each concurrently logged in user. Shared hosting will provide a very slow experience.
Please follow the link below that talks about the hosting recommendation for our platform:
www.buddyboss.com/hosting-recommendations-for-buddyboss-platform/
Really cool feature. I am enjoying with buddyboss. Buddyboss is the #1 in the planet with support wordpress. New development and Support system is really great! I appreciate to all of the buddyboss team. And what about the releasing period of elementor widgets? I am also exiting for that! 😁 #amazing features! I am with buddyboss by switching from others since January. 👍️
Thanks for the amazing feedback, Johop! Elementor coming soon! You will see some new blocks and widgets in the coming weeks. :)
What is the shortcode for a webinar though? The meeting shortcode structure doesn't work
Hi Mark, currently, there is no shortcode yet for a webinar on the Zoom integration. Only the meeting shortcode.
@@BuddybossWP Okay, well that is extremely necessary. Please make one!
Can you setup zoom webinars too? Really in love with buddyboss setup😊
Thanks for the feedback! We will consider working on this. :)
Brilliant, well done. Now excited to try it out!
Awesome! I'm sure you'll love it. 😃
This is awesome, just wondering is there a way to allow users to zoom each other instead of having to zoom a whole group?
If we get enough requests for this feature, we'll consider building into the product.
@@BuddybossWP ok cool thanks
Hi thanks for this tutorial, i have one question . how can i trun on my zoom meeting new tab. like when my user click on join meeting meeting will start in same tab. i want to to make my meeting in new tab .so that people will not leave my website as well.Thanks!
Hi A R, please send us a support ticket via your BuddyBoss My Account, Our support team will then review the situation and provide the necessary assistance. Thank you
Awesome!!!! When can we expect Recurring Meetings?
It will be release later this month. :) Please check our August Update here: ua-cam.com/video/uh7RDuEB7rM/v-deo.html
Can i add zoom in the classic page editor as i do not want to use the updated editor and glutenberg block as it will change how i manage my online courses. I just got my head around the classic. Surely i cant do it another way?
If we get enough requests for this feature, we will consider building into the product. We'll pass the suggestion to the product team.
Can I protect the meeting link based on membership level (using Wishlist Member of Memberpress)?
So, if you have Zoom Business or Pro Plan, no one can use Zoom on your website unless you are physically operating it yourself.?
Please note that anyone allowed to create a meeting in the group can use the default zoom account details when hosting the meeting. With this, there is a possibility of people creating meetings all the time which may cause conflict. We are avoiding this to happen that is why we do not recommend using your own zoom for all the group meetings on your site. Also as mentioned, Zoom imposed that one single zoom account cannot have two meetings running at the same time.
Outstanding! Great work!
Thank you!!
Will you add a way for it to automatically pull in scheduled meetings that are created in different platforms, like a calendar app? I use Acuity to schedule zoom meetings, it would be neat to have it pull in that data automatically for me.
We are syncing directly with Zoom API so you would somehow need to get those calendar meetings synced into zoom first. If you can do that then it could theoretically be possible in some future update. Right now we will be focusing primarily on adding recurring meetings, and webinars.
@@BuddybossWP Are you able to keep the meeting experience on your own site somehow? In other words, have the video player/meeting from within your site, and not via Zoom, but powered by Zoom.
@@klefka Excellent suggestion! This is exactly what one of our customers asked for.
@Mr. X At this moment, we do not. If we did that, it could only work for meetings without passwords, based on how Zoom API works and even then, it would open in a new tab, which Zoom does anyways.
Are webinars supported now?
Hello, yes! Please refer here: ua-cam.com/video/eGpRxPk-DcU/v-deo.html
I just noticed something else. I created a meeting scheduled for 6 am Vancouver time. I then used my VPN to simulate being in the Philippines, assuming the time and countdown would adjust accordingly. It remained still on Vancouver time and the countdown clock remained the same as well.
I'm not sure f you just missed this question?
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Hi. Zoom has deprecated the JWT apps. What are the other ways we can integrate zoom to buddyBoss platform?
Hi Rea, Unfortunately, the Zoom integration is not available until we release the fix for this but our Product Team is already working on it. However, we don't have any estimated time for the release. Once its available, we will definitely publish it on our Release Notes.
Hi
I am pretty new, but the gutenberg block i cannot find when i create a new page. I do not get what you get no plus button. I do not know what a gutenberg block is can someone please explain
Please send us a support ticket from your BuddyBoss account regarding this concern. Our team will get back to you as soon as possible.
This is working great, but I have a question. I can only add one zoom meeting per page? I was hoping to schedule at least two (different) zoom events on one page, but I get the error saying "this block can only be used once"? Also, any plans to incorporate with the Divi builder rather than having to use the Gutenberg editor?
We were getting some errors with people duplicating blocks and then it would schedule two of the same meeting in Zoom, this is why it is restricting to one block per page. I think we can update it to allow multiple blocks while preventing duplicates. For Divi, we are currently working on support for it. It works right now in a basic way but we are adding more advanced support. We also have full support for Elementor and Beaver Builder page builders right now.
@@BuddybossWP Thanks for the quick response - you guys/gals are awesome :)
Thank you!!
This is amazing. 🙏
Thank you!
We were testing zoom from the browser, and it was not working from safari, only chrome. Is that right? How will the it work from the app when it will come out? will zoom open in the app itself of will it need zoom installed?
In regards to the Zoom that is not working in Safari, kindly submit a support ticket at buddyboss.com so we can check this issue further. Please be advised that Zoom is not yet supported in the BuddyBoss App but we are currently aiming supporting Zoom Feature in the App.
www.buddyboss.com/roadmap/
Would the members be able to see the Zoom api keys or would it be the organizers only?
The Zoom API keys that was set in a certain group are only visible to the Organizers only.
hey great feature! but can't we play the conference on our website? without the need to download zoom
@Rachid Nabti The actual meeting is not embedded on the website or on the group page. The members can find the meeting details on the group and will have to participate via the Zoom app.
hope u'll add this option. good luck 👍
Based on how Zoom API works, it could only work for meetings without passwords and even then, it would open in a new tab, which Zoom does. And know that their native web view is better than their embedded one. Anyways, thanks for the feedback! We will look into this. :)
Amazing work, well done !
Thank you for your kind words! It really means a lot to our whole team 🙂
My understanding is that we assign pages to Buddyboss pages (activity, members, group) but there is no possibility to customize these pages. Am'I missing something ?
Hi, we have an integrated plugin for this feature. You might want to check out this link I found for you. www.buddyboss.com/resources/docs/integrations/buddypages/?no_frame=1
@@BuddybossWP Hi, it doesn't answer my question. This plugin let users create pages in groups and profile. But I'm talking about customizing the activity page :|
You will need to do custom work should you want to customize these native pages, Florent.
It's all great but.... when usrs are joining meeting all meeting details are displayed to them in a left top corner by clicking a green shield.... It's pointless to have that zoom feature where you can join only by your cusotm domain URL since any one who joins the meeting will be able to get direct meeting link as well as meetining number and PIN - your integration with zoom has security leak in that case. We posted that issue on your Facebook forum but it was deleted - will that comment be deleted as well?
Hey @
bolder_universe Please know that the actual meeting is not embedded on the website or on the group page. You and your participants will have to open the zoom app to join the meeting. This green shield / security issue you have is already within Zoom. We suggest reaching to Zoom they are the most suitable to assist you with this.
Great job!!!
Thank you!
What is ETA for supporting Zoom Webinars?
We cannot provide an exact date as to when it will be integrated. Once added, we will make sure to keep you informed and have this information available on our resources/docs website. Thank you!
Can we expect Zoom as a Elementor block? Anyway, good job!
We will consider this! Thanks for your suggestion.
@@BuddybossWP Please do! A Lot of us use elementor to build!
Nice video.
How to use Google meet instead of Zoom ?
Google Meet is not yet tested with our theme and platform. Currently, we only have Zoom integration.
Is there a way to allow users to click "I'm joining" to a Zoom meeting so the organizers of the site/meeting will know in advance how many people will join each meeting? This is needed in our case because we will have facilitators for breakout rooms and need to know how many facilitators we will need so cannot have say 5 people facilitators and all of a sudden 1000 people joining a zoom meeting and we not having enough facilitators :) Thanks!
Is this supported already or if not, is it planned? Thanks!
At the moment, this is not yet available out of the box but we will consider working on this. Thanks!
@@BuddybossWP thanks!
@Levy Carneiro You're welcome :)
This is awesome.
Thank you!!
I think it would be nice if when the meeting was over ( duration expired) it would indicate that vs just the join meeting button disappearing.
Thanks for the feedback! We'll consider this.
I used the shortcode you suggested, but it does not show any countdown. Is there a parameter I could add to the shortcode?
Hey, this is not a known issue on the product so probably something specific in your website, please submit a support a ticket so that we can help you there.
It should show a countdown automatically as long as the meeting is scheduled to a future date.
this can be included into a learndash lesson?
At the moment, our integration with Zoom is for you to schedule and view meetings and recordings, in Gutenberg blocks and in social groups.
If you are using LearnDash you can connect LearnDash Groups with Social Groups. This way, you can also have Zoom meetings with each group with associated courses.
You can check how to connect LearnDash Groups with Social Groups here: ua-cam.com/video/FRkNgllikcE/v-deo.html
You can also embed Zoom links into LearnDash lessons using our Zoom Gutenberg block. It is supported within LearnDash content and anywhere in WordPress that uses Gutenberg.
BuddyBoss thank you guys
I use elementor - do i need to use Gutenberg for this to work?
For the block, you would need to use Gutenberg. But we also have a shortcode which is shown in the video, you can use this shortcode to embed an existing Zoom meeting ID within Elementor in the Elementor shortcode widget.
you need to pay zoom licence in order to work, it wont work with the free version right?
It will work with the free version, but with limited features (no cloud recordings, and no alternate hosts).
Is there a way to notify members of a group through email when a zoom meeting was created or will be starting in an hour?
No available option yet out of the box, this is a great idea though and we will surely consider it.
@@BuddybossWP Thanks for the response! Looking forward to it :)
You're welcome! :)
Hi is the shortcode can work in Elementor then ??
Our Zoom integration does not have an option to generate a shortcode so if you are using a third-party plugin for Zoom to get a shortcode, you may need to contact Elementor Support to check if that would work on their plugin.
Please send us a support ticket from your BuddyBoss account with the full details of this issue so we can further assist you and check your site. Thank you!
I saw on the video that you generate a short code that why i ask !!!
[zoom_meeting]
Thank you for clarifying. We tested it and it's working on Elementor. It may be showing as blank when you are editing (backend) tinyurl.com/y7ag229a but after publishing(frontend), it's working as expected. tinyurl.com/yba8gamb
@@BuddybossWP Thanks that's a good news ;-) I Wass ac-xepting this since I use it with other plugin as well
You're welcome! Glad we are able to check this for you :)
Can we watch the zoom meeting live?
Yes, you can join and watch live Zoom Meetings.
@@BuddybossWP Do I watch these live meetings via the buddy boss app or within the zoom link. My question is it a live stream of the meeting within the community?
The live meeting will operate in the Zoom itself, please note that in the Web or app, at this time, Zoom cannot be embedded in a community site, their API is very limited for that and is not much friendly or enabling developers to improve or tweak their layout but surely, we will still consider this.
hey guys, just noticed that we can't schedule recurent zoom calls, and if we change it at zoom and synchronise, it just show the first meeting. thank's to consider fixing that. :)
Recurring meetings will be coming in a week or two.
@@BuddybossWP thank's for the hard work 🤘
Please add ADOBE CONNECT support!
Thanks for the suggestion
🤴🏽🤴🏽🤴🏽 BB my administration is so happy
Great! That's wonderful to hear.
please add blog in group!
Should you want your members to be able to write a blog post from the frontend, you may install BuddyPress User Blog Plugin. www.buddyboss.com/integrations/buddypress-user-blog/
You should do your own video life like Facebook not taking the zoom
We appreciate your feedback and suggestion, we will surely consider working on this.
Be caution when install Zoom.. your personal information are at risk.
Thank you for the heads up.
I created a meeting scheduled for 6 am Vancouver time. I then used my VPN to simulate being in the Philippines, assuming the time and countdown would adjust accordingly. It remained still on Vancouver time and the countdown clock remained the same as well.