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Copper Contributor

Aug 17, 2018

What Does Following a Channel Do?

I will be giving a quick presentation on how to use MS Stream within my office. Can anyone tell me what following a channel even does? I assumed that once a channel is followed, you would be notified/emailed whenever a new video is uploaded, but that does not appear to be the case. The only thing the help doc says is that you can "follow and unfollow channels so you can be kept up to date with the content you want to see," but I can not find how users are "kept up to date". Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Aug 17, 2018
Following works just like SharePoint. You get a custom view to basically filter on channels you follow. So it's really just a way to bookmark channels as under "My Content" is a Followed Channels view.

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Aug 17, 2018
Following works just like SharePoint. You get a custom view to basically filter on channels you follow. So it's really just a way to bookmark channels as under "My Content" is a Followed Channels view.
- Derek Sereno
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 17, 2018
  I see. So I take it email notifications is not a feature currently supported?
  
  The other reason I ask is because we have set up a Pending/For Review channel where anyone within the company can upload content. As an admin, I would review this content and then relocate to the appropriate company wide channels. It would be great if I could be notified when someone uploads something to this channel.
  - Deleted
    Aug 17, 2018
    Right now to my knowledge there isn't. I want to say I recall seeing some things they discussed adding to Stream and some approval scenarios were spoken of but don't quote me on that :).