Forum Discussion
Channels not visible for private group videos view-able by all
Abhimanyu Singh - You are right your only options are a new or existing public O365 Group to accomplish most of what you want.
The setting in Stream for making members viewers only, does only apply to Stream not to the other workloads that come with the O365 Group.
With your use case and scenario you can't quite get all the requirements covered. We are going to be doing more research and customer interviews in this new year to come up with plans on how to better address Stream groups/channels/permissions. We may want to reach out to you (and others who are interested) as we start our interviews in the coming weeks.
Abhimanyu Singh In Microsoft Stream, the authorizations are attached to a video and the channels to the Office 365 Group. With video it is decided who can see it, in which channel it should appear, who can edit it and so on. With the setting everyone, the video is visible per se, but not all channels to which the video is assigned, since the channels belong to the Office 365 groups.
I would define global channels for your application and also include the videos in there. The global channels are the viewer view and the private channels are the creator / editor view to the content.
Abhimanyu SinghYou are thinking the wrong direction. When you are allowed to edit the video, you can assign it to a channel. The video gets the information were it is associated to. You can not assign videos to channels by editing channel informations.
Tomislav Karafilov Hmmmm.. I think I am finding it difficult to grok! The global (company wide) channel creation tells me this: ”anyone can add and watch these videos”. Doesn’t this mean that any user will be able to fill the channel with videos not meant to be there? (I can’t seem to add an image/screenshot here on mobile!)
Also, the docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/groups-channels-organization#companywide-light-weight-curation-anyone-in-org-can-add-videos
say this: “Everyone in the company can add/remove videos to/from this channel”.
Abhimanyu Singh Checked it and you are right! If the checkbox "Allow everyone in your company to view this video" is checked, even if you are not an owner of the video you get the option "Add to group/channel" and you can assign the video to a global channel. OK, …
Make your group public with "Allow all membery to contribute" = off. The users do not need to be members of the group to see the videos.
