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Brass Contributor

Sep 07, 2023

New Stream Web Part - Source > Folder > From Sites > Only shows recent shared libraries

The new Stream (on SharePoint) web part just hit my org's tenant. When you add the web part to the SharePoint page, there are several source options: Videos on this site, Folder, and Single Video. ...

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karen_dredske

Iron Contributor

Sep 13, 2023

Tasmania and KatherineS-Q - help me out with understanding your use cases for why a user might need access to a video to post on a SharePoint page without having access to the location the video is stored? Videos should be stored where they are used. That means that if the video is being displayed on a SharePoint site web page, that video should be in that site's library. That is a SharePoint best practice. Just like any Office or PDF files that you link to on a web page are stored in the Documents library of that site. If they aren't, then the content author normally has access to the files on the other site they are stored on.

I am pretty sure that if you want to get a site to appear in the web part you may need to favorite that site - not pin it. This is a common problem with finding other types of files also. Note though . . . if you do not have access to the site where that video file is stored, then you will never see it to be able to Favorite it or to link to it. SharePoint permissions only allow you to see what you have access to at least view.

KatherineS-Q

Brass Contributor

Sep 13, 2023

It doesn't allow you to select the site and then the document library on that site. It just shows the most recent document libraries that you have accessed. Following or pinning the site wouldn't help with the current option available. In order for the document library to show up under Recent, you would have to save the draft of the page, navigate to the document library where the video lives and open it, wait a few minutes, go back to the page you were editing, put it back in edit mode, select the edit web part icon for the Stream web part, select From sites, and then pray the document library shows up under Recent, so you can select the document library where the video(s) live. That's a lot of steps and will create a lot of confusion for your everyday SharePoint site admin/owner.

karen_dredske
Iron Contributor
Sep 13, 2023
Ugh. I don't have the new Stream web part in any of my tenants yet. I had hoped it would let you select the site and then the library. You just confirmed that my original thought of making the most of the File and Media, Hero, and Highlighted content web parts are the way of the future. I'm not thrilled with the playlist, but I can make it work now that you can display it with a list web part.