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Cannot reliably search Videos in Stream Search.
Apologies I have no information except.
I was moving from Office365 video and began migrating class videos to MS Stream.
Its been a few months that items have been on MS Stream in 2 channels.
Its simply can't be found by search using the search box.
You will only be able to get 1 single result by typing the full name of the item exactly.
See this example in 3 screenshots.
Entire courses will start with UAM...
If you put the words you want to search for in the description field, you can search by those words. But only if you enter the complete word in the search box. For example, if you have the word "video12" in the description field, and you enter only "video1" in the search box, it won't find the video. So the user must know the exact and complete word to search for. It's a poor work around though, and labor intensive. When uploading multiple videos, each video must be edited individually in order to have even a marginally useful search function.
We first tried copying and pasting the file name into the description field, but that didn't work. The file names had underscores instead of spaces, so I replace them with spaces. Now we can search for individual words from the file name, but still only if the complete word is used in the search.
The "Sort By" feature is also effectively useless because none of the criteria will help a user find a specific video. Some important criteria that need to be added include sorting by file name and file creation date ("Posted" date isn't useful when you're looking for a recording based on when the event itself happened.)
Ideally, channel owners should have the ability to provide customized search and sorting tools based on what their users/customers need. For us, at least, this isn't social media, it's an enterprise resource tool. What's "trending" or how many "likes" aren't relevant to
It appears that microsoft stream video contant wont be included in the managed metadata service, or is not included in the crawl for search. The file type of Microsoft Video was Cloud_Video. I found I could add all kinds of metadata columns to the content type and it was then searchable in every way. Up until that time, I had the same issues I now have with Microsoft stream. Its not searchable even by filename. Whether part word or otherwise..
I think, when they cut over Microsoft Video into Microsoft Stream this will come together. I think I'll need to dive into the documentation some stage.
Really sorry to hear about the difficulty you are experiencing with our search indexing. We hope to investigate and work to enable prefix search and other improvements to refine your experience.
