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Can Channel owners be changed?
I can't find a way to make another user an owner of an already created channel. What happens to a channel when their owner leaves the organization? Even if it continues working it looks pretty lame ...
You are correct we do not have a way to change the channel owner. We display the person that created the channel originally.
For group channels any of the contributors to the group can change channel settings/add/delete them.
But for companywide channels only the person who created the channel and the Stream Admins can change infoabout or delete the channel.
This isn't ideal, I agree with you.
Could you add your ideas about what we should do with channel onwners/creators to the Stream Ideas forum so others can vote/comment on them?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/idb-p/StreamIdeas
This is not good. If the person who created the channel leaves the organisation, who will then have access to keep working on it?
Real life scenario: "My boss and another site leaders have asked me to upload videos for them on more than one occasion." To be speedy about things, I created a channel and started uploading asap. BUT UGGGG! Now we all realize that I should have created a group channel 1st to give others access and limit contributors. Presently, we have several videos uploaded with multiple shared links across the Americas Operations Center channel. Is the only solution to delete "my" channel, create a group channel and then re-upload all the videos and send out new links? Please help? I worry that others will have the group channel after-thought.
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
Did you share out links to the channel itself or to the videos?
If most people are going to the videos themselves then you can...
- Create a group
- Create a channel in the group
- Go to each of the 6 videos in the old channel and edit the permissions to put them in your new group/channel.
- Delete the old channel.
When you re-permission a video into a new group/channel it doesn't change the video link URL, those always stay the same.
Sorry we have a 1 way door here. The technical hurdles to build ability to allow a channel to be companywide to group and back again were more than we were willing to invest in at the time we wrote this code. I agree with you this can be problematic and we should look at improving here.
Dear Mark,
Because of the migration from O365 video portal to Stream which is delayed from your side, we are looking to evaluate the migration by ourselves.
Because, we used only a limited number of video use cases, I'm looking to recreate the O365VideoPortal Channels into Stream via the
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Companywide channels
Companywide channels are great for organizing videos by topics and providing a way for community-driven content curation.
Characteristics of companywide channels:
- Can be seen by everyone within your company
- Everyone within your company can add videos or remove videos from them
- Only the creator of the channel (and Stream admin) can edit the channel itself
- Only videos that have "Allow everyone in your company to view this video" checked can be added to companywide channels
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- Everyone within your company can add videos or remove videos from them
I just tested this in my tenant with a user who does not have access to create content and it renders this statement false.
Thank you Marc for the quick reply. Your solution does sound like it will work. I do worry that most media creators will not stop and take the time think to create a group First. Us content creators are all in a rush to get content uploaded ASAP these days. While we wait for the upload, we usually complete descriptions, meta-tags, thumbnails and decide where to share or embed the video. I worry that you will be answering this question over and over in the future.
