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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
Marc Mroz
Microsoft
MicrosoftYou 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
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.
- Marc Mroz
Today with companywide channels there isn't an option to assign a new owner/creator.
We are looking at moving away from the current model of companywide channels over the coming quarters. The new concept would be that all channels would be inside of a group. We do allow multiple owners on a group already so that would solve this issue.
With making all channels be inside a group we'll add a new concept "Stream only groups" as well. With this you can pick if a group is tied to an O365 Group or if it's just a group in stream only not connected to O365.
but I hope I can still set the video to be accessible by all organisation member; the situation is when a group is responsible for producing content, being the owner of the video; but to be viewed by anyone (or another group) in the organisation.
- Added! This is a pretty major requirement especially in a business with over 10,000 staff.
