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Also known as: video swiper, card swiper, social videos

Description

A multi-purpose block that displays multiple cards/panels in a swiper. Can showcase videos, text, and/or images.

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  • Badges (optional)
    • Small navigational buttons displayed above the cards that feature a word or two to indicate the topic of each card in the swiper
    • Character limit: 1-2 words, 30 characters for each badge
    • Image Added
  • Cards must have similar amounts of copy
  • Images are optional, but if one card has a photo, they all need to have a photo
  • Card title (recommended)
    • If using badges, the card title should match or contain the badge copy for continuity
  • Card content
    • Ideal length is one or two short phrases or 3-4 bullet points
    • For data tables, limit number of rows to ~10
  • Card button/link (optional)
    • Link text should be specific to each topic/card

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  • These are typically Instagram Reels uploaded as Shorts to our YouTube channel.
  • Need 3 or more videos for this layout. 
  • Note that we cannot show a mix of content (e.g. we can't show a YT Short next to a photo with some copy)
  • Video title (required for all videos)
    • Character limit: 30 characters
    • Recommend matching (or shortening) the title of the video on Youtube. Can move subjects name subject's name to the bottom text for length 
  • Bottom text (optional)
    • Character limit: 30 characters
    • Used to display name, grad. year, major, or other details about the video's subject(s)

Design Assets Needed

Images

Card image (optional)

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  • We can use the cover image from YT or upload a different one to override it
  • Cover image override - jpeg
    • Face should not be perfectly centered, as it will be covered by the play button. We recommend cropping so the face is in the top third of the image.
    • For traditional, landscape videos
      • Dimensions: 1176x662px
      • Aspect ratio: 16:9
    • For vertical, social videos
      • Dimensions: 1170x1807px or 585x904px
      • Aspect ratio: 9:16

Variations

Columns

  • Choose to display 1, 2, 3, or 4 columns for desktop
  • Smaller screens will automatically have fewer columns

Badges

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  • Show users teaser text for each card in the swiper
  • Badges are like small navigational buttons displayed above the swiper cards and feature a word or two
  • Available for the single column layout only
  • For mobile, badges can be listed out or collapsed into a dropdown

Card shadow

  • Display or hide card outline and shadow
  • Examples: 
  • Only available for text/image layout (not for videos)

Video options

Video player type

  • Embed video on the page or have it open in a modal (popup window)
    • Embedded video - use when a video is displayed large or for social videos
    • Video modal - use when overflow layout is selected, when you want the video watching experience to have more impact, or when the video is better viewed full screen
Video layout options

Large video in a single column

Source: WSB 125th Anniversary

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50/50 layout with video next to copy

Source: BBA Study Abroad

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3 or more vertical videos in 3 columns

Source: BBA Majors

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3 or more landscape videos in overflow layout

Source: Companies & Recruiters

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Implementation

Dev Notes

  • The block displays swiper arrows and creates swiping functionality when the content requires it. 
  • Click and drag swiping is disabled for video content on desktop.

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  • Includes standard block footer fields
    • Footer content
    • Footer CTAs


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titleConfiguration
Columns
  • Select the number of columns to display for XL screens. Other column breakpoints will be set for you.

    • Default = 1 column
    • Options: 1, 2, 3, 4
  • For social videos, recommend 2-3 columns
Enable card shadows
  • Yes or no
  • Default is Yes
  • Only available for text/image layout (not for videos)
Adaptive autoheight
  • Yes or no
  • Default is Yes
  • Toggle to no if Show Overflow is toggled yes
Card image ratio
  • If adding an image to any cards, select an appropriate aspect ratio 
  • Default - 16x9
  • Options:
    • icon
    • 16x9 
    • 21x9
    • 4x3
    • 1x1
Center icons
  • Yes or No
  • When image ratio is set to "icon", this field will appear
  • Default - No (icon will be left aligned)
  • If Yes, icon will be centered and a small gray horizontal rule will appear between the icon and the other card content
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Block Wrapper Classes

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