One of the things we demonstrated at the User Conference was a note that began playing a video when it was clicked. In this particular case the note popup opened a link to one of the videos published on YouTube. We've had several questions about how this was done, so here's how:

First, go to the YouTube site and find a video you'd like to open in the note popup. If you're not familiar with notes, we covered the basics in an earlier post so you might want to check that first, or go directly to the notes Help. 

Here we've gone to YouTube and searched for "ESRI" and found that the first hit is a video showing the TouchTable at the 2005 ESRI User Conference.

Click the video to play it, and look for the Share Video link on that page. Once you click Share Video you'll see an input box that contains the URL link to the video that you can copy and paste into an email to send to others.

Highlight and copy the link. Then in Explorer create a new note. Use this link along with a little HTML as the note text as shown below:

Then place the note, and click the pushpin. The video will open automatically in the note popup.

You can do the same with any video, just substitute the new URL or path in place of what you copied from YouTube. In the next release (coming in July) it will no longer be necessary to add those few HTML tags, so it will be even easier to include videos in your Explorer maps.