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Setting up video portal site for Stream (on SharePoint) to disallow downloads of videos
I created a custom permission level with:
View items
Open items
View pages
Open
And when I applied this to users they aren't able to access the document library at all.
And for videos in the library that are shown in the Activity web part, they can view the videos if they click off the thumbnail in the web part and the video does play - but they can also download the file.
MicrosoftKevinCrossman - After creating a new SP site, can you add a file and share it? I think that forces "Restricted View" to get created. (Sorry this is so silly we need to find a way to fix this and make it easy).
For a custom permission level, what I tried and seemed to work in the few cases I tested, was to make a copy of "Read" and then just uncheck "List permissions > Open items" and I kept all the other permissions that Read had by default.
- Thanks (and yes, very very silly). When I create a fresh comms site and share one item then I do get the Restricted View option for that document library - and this does work to prevent downloads of uploaded videos.
The weird thing is that Restricted View isn't listed a permission level in the site's settings. And for my other site I can't get it to work properly so I guess I'll just recreate it. (a concern that this whole Restricted View thing may be ... brittle.).- I created a post about to most easily create a View Only permissions level for a SharePoint site, so that videos aren't able to be downloaded.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creating-view-only-permission-stream-sharepoint-videos-kevin-crossman/?trackingId=x3pFqkEV9kD2dxNqErFgvg%3D%3DKevinCrossman Marc Mroz Also having this issue. As my company-wide Viva Engage page, which is connected to our Comms Hub Sharepoint, requires all users to be able to upload media to the page for it to work as a community, this has become a huge problem. With videos either being downloadable or needing to be uploaded to a personal Sharepoint and a 'view only' link created. But with latter, when people are sharing the video with others, it's not working as they naturally just take the link from URL at top. Is there a solution?
