Forum Discussion
Stream Channel: Organize/Categorize Videos
On a channel homepage, I need the ability to create video categories, as defined by me, the channel owner - possible? Alternatively, the ability to sort by Name would be an acceptable work-around.
You can categorize your videos via hashtags in Microsoft Stream! Just add them in the description as a way to group up similar videos. When you click on the hashtag you'll be able to see other videos with the same tag. If you have other questions this Microsoft Stream Q&A might have the answers Nick Hasselblad
good tip. We are introducing a new system and will soon have 50+ videos each 2 mins long.
With no folder structure it is harder.
To add to this we also added the top hashtags in the Channel Description to that they are appear in the Channel box as well.
This idea is marked "Completed", and near the end of the thread a user mentions that using a URL query parameter works to define common search metadata however I can't get this to work.
Define default sorting order for a channel and through URL
No variation of this works for me (although I really wish it would, it would solve so many issues).
https://web.microsoftstream.com/channel/d597a769-9aaf-4fcf-97d2-7ee1ce440f3e?sort=nameIs anyone else able to get to this to work? Maybe I'm missing something?
- Unfortunately I can't wait anymore for this feature. I am migrating my content to a new service, Litmos, which is a training platform specifically for enterprises.
Without a feature for the business to organize videos in a playlist type of way then Stream is pretty much useless. Businesses are not trying to create a viral video site for their employees, they are trying to communicate and train and engage with their employees. The ability to curate videos and organize them for relevant and contextual consumption should be the first and highest priority task of the Microsoft Stream team. This issue has been open for years without being meaningfully addressed and that tells me that this service is abandon-ware. Can you respond to this and convince us all that I am wrong on this?
- we have asked for playlist functionality like most other video platforms have. i think it's "on the roadmap" but who knows how long that will actually take.
- We publish training videos for our engineers and they are broken up into sessions. The video title includes the session number and currently the "trending" sort order just completely ruins the order and actually makes it difficult for our users to find the session they need to watch next.
I would also like the ability to set an order to videos within a channel. I have training videos that I would like to align with the order of the items for which they are providing training for.
For us, Groups organize which channels appear where, but it would be nice to sort videos by dragging and dropping an order; essentially an officewide playlist within the channel.
"Trending" is not useful in many contexts. Our users are employees and the scenario is often not like Facebook or YouTube where people can sit around watching what is "viral". At work it is a common business requirement to organize and make a set of videos available to a group of employees who are required to watch them, whether they be popular or not.
We use the Channel for playing work safety videos on our intranet. Having the videos sorted alphabetically would be extremely helpful. The only way to find the video you need to watch is by search at this point!
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
Nick Hasselblad - We don't have a way to organize videos within channels. However if you created a group, then you can create channels under that group for further organization of the videos.
Today on a channel we let a user viewing the channel sort by Trending (views/likes/comments in last few weeks), published date, total views, total likes. If we added video name to that drop down would that help? Or are you looking for a feature where you as the channel owner can pick which sort option is selected by default when a user views your channel?
Marc Mroz Hi Marc, it would be great if as the channel owner we could set the default sort by field to by date, that is so that we can ensure that users will see the latest videos that are uploaded automatically by default, otherwise they may not know to sort them by date, and we will lose viewers. Please could MS add this feature?
Marc Mroz wrote:Nick Hasselblad- We don't have a way to organize videos within channels. However if you created a group, then you can create channels under that group for further organization of the videos.
Today on a channel we let a user viewing the channel sort by Trending (views/likes/comments in last few weeks), published date, total views, total likes. If we added video name to that drop down would that help? Or are you looking for a feature where you as the channel owner can pick which sort option is selected by default when a user views your channel?
This is an issue for me as well. I created a naming strategy using numbers so they could easily be organized. I can't even figure how they are being organized. They are not by date or name. Please help.
I'm experiencing the same thing. I've organized our company videos into a channel for ease of access, but they can't be re-ordered in the list. They don't appear in the list in the order I uploaded them or even alphabetically.
- Marc Mroz
Dave Kartunen and Brad Millner - By default we sort videos in a channel by "Trending." This uses an algorithm to determine which videos are popular in the last few weeks against views, likes, comments, etc. A user could pick a different sort order for the channel when they are viewing it. But as I said above we don't have a feature for owner of channels to pick a different sort order by default.
I am an integrationist at a school, and when teachers load videos for class, the students do not notice the "All Videos" tab, though right there, and they assume the latest video has not been uploaded. Teachers like having more control. There really are very few options available in videos for sorting, etc.
We would also like to be able to give permissions in Channels to whole groups. If a class is working on a project, it is very time-consuming to have to load each student individually, especially when we have synced groups to use.
