Forum Discussion
Arrange videos in a Playlist (Stream on Sharepoint)
- Jul 17, 2023
Thank you karen_dredske I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. I want to highlight that none of my criticisms about this feature are directed at you. People like yourself are really wonderful, and the time you take helping out in these forums is likely one of the only reasons Microsoft products remain usable.
For anyone else reading this thread, I want to list the steps necessary to re-order the playlist:
- Create the list
- Add videos to the list/playlist
- Realize with horror that the playlist items cannot be easily dragged & dropped into a new order
- Visit the forums for help
- If you're lucky, run into someone as generous with their time as @karen_dredske
- At this stage you are granted hidden knowledge from Karen that is utilized in the following steps.
- Select the Playlist drop-down menu (upper-right)
- Select All Items in the drop-down menu
- Add a column (I titled mine Order and made it a number column)
- Add values to all items in the new column for ordering (Example: 1, 2, 3, etc...)
- After adding all values, select the All Items drop-down menu (upper-right, same button as Playlist in step 6)
- Select Playlist in the drop-down menu
- Select the Playlist drop-down menu (upper-right, same as button in step 10, it just keeps changing names because that's super intuitive.. or at least it saves on space)
- Select Edit current view in the drop-down menu
- This opens a new tab where you'll be editing the settings for the Playlist view
- In the Columns section check the box for your newly created column (mine was Order)
- In the Sort section change the First sort by the column drop-down menu to your newly created column (so I'm selecting Order again)
- In the same Sort section decide if you want to check the radial bubble for sorting in ascending or descending order
- Click OK at the bottom right of this page.
- This brings you back to the Playlist, but in the same tab, so you now have your playlist, in two different states, open in side-by-side tabs.
So, if you don't count the creation of the playlist and finding Karen, it's just a quick ELEVEN steps to change the order of your playlist.. just in case anyone was wondering.
I just want to say again, although my post is obviously laden with sarcasm, none of it is directed at karen_dredske. I mean it when I say you make this community better. Thank you again for taking the time to respond.
Today the best you can do is to use a document library web part tied to a file viewer web part which sort of gives you a playlist. As you click a video in the list it plays in the file viewer web part.
Or you can use hero web part, we are making it play the video in-line on the page (rolling out now).
- wazdarocsta470Aug 01, 2022Copper ContributorHi Marc, firstly thank you so much for such a quick response and also an absolutely honest response. I have presented your suggestions to my client and suggested that we do a POC of each option to determine which if any solutions meets their requirements else failing that they will need to wait for the addition of the required functionality. I will update this as we go along for the benefit of others. Regards, Warren
- Marc MrozAug 01, 2022MicrosoftSee this document if you haven't already for other ideas to group videos together: https://aka.ms/StreamPortals