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Materials library

A shared home for the clinic's PDFs, videos, images and links: upload something once, then attach it to an exercise in a program, to a treatment-plan phase and to a visit summary.

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Reviewed: 2026-08-24

Materials is the clinic's library of educational content: PDF leaflets, instructional videos, positioning photos and links to external pages. You add an item once and then attach it in several places — there is no need to upload the same file into every program separately.

A material attaches in three places: under an exercise in a program and under a whole program, under a treatment-plan phase (see phase resources), and in the visit summary, through the Assign materials field.

Open Materials

How to do it

01

Upload a material

Click Upload Material. Pick the Type: Document, Video, Image or Link. For the first three you pick a file with Choose File; for the last you paste an address into the URL field.

Fill in the Title (the only mandatory field), then Category, Description and comma-separated Tags. On save Heltio confirms with Material uploaded successfully.

02

Find a material in the list

Above the list sits the Search materials... field and the type buttons: All, Document, Video, Image, Link. Search works on the title. Load more pulls in the next page.

03

Decide whether the patient should see it

Clicking an item opens a panel with Preview, Tags, the Created date and the Download, Edit and Delete buttons.

The Public checkbox decides whether the material is available to the patient in the portal. A newly uploaded material is not public — until you tick it, the item lives on the clinic side only, even when you attach it to an exercise.

04

Attach the material where it should do its work

In the program editor, an exercise card has an Add video button — with three tabs: Materials Library, URL and Upload — plus Add Material for files and photos. The limits are 5 attachments per exercise, of which one video, and 10 attachments per program.

In a treatment-plan phase, a material additionally gets a Role (Required, Supplementary, Pre-phase, Post-phase) and an optional Due by day.

When something doesn't work

Warning

File too large. Maximum size is 10.0 MB.

What this means: The selected file is over the library limit.

What to do: Shrink the PDF or the photo. Add a video as a **Link** to YouTube or Vimeo — or upload it straight into an exercise in a program, where the limit is 50 MB.
Warning

Enter a valid URL.

What this means: The **URL** field on the **Link** type does not hold a valid address.

What to do: Paste the full address including the `https://` at the front.
Error

Failed to upload material.

What this means: The file never reached storage — usually a connection dropped mid-upload.

What to do: Try again. For large files a fixed connection beats mobile data.
Error

Failed to load materials. Please try again.

What this means: The list did not arrive.

What to do: Refresh the page.
Error

Failed to delete material.

What this means: The deletion did not go through on the Heltio side.

What to do: Refresh the list and check whether the item still exists before trying a second time.

Who has access

Clinic Admin Practitioner

Everyone with access to clinic materials can see the library; uploading, editing and deleting belong to practitioners and the clinic admin. The library is shared across the clinic — there are no materials private to one person.

Downloading a file is recorded in the audit log.

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