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Can I get Stream videos returned in my SharePoint search?
Sorry if this has been covered already, but I couldn't find any recent updates.
We're only just starting to test Stream.
I'm looking for how we the videos are surfaced in our enterprise search on Sharepoint. That's where people access everything else on O365 (People, Documents, Pages etc.) as well as our current videos which are in a standard Sharepoint library.
You'd think this would be a basic requirement, but from doing some reading around, it looks like it may not possible...?!
Not good news for our search users if that's the case... Any thoughts appreciated... thanks.
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- Man, I really thought after 4 years there would be a way to connect Microsoft Stream videos into SharePoint Search results. What is the point of utilizing Microsoft Stream if the videos aren't findable via search?
I see that I can search PowerBI results, but not Stream. Hopefully soon, because honestly Videos is a pretty big piece to any Intranet. Please allow this.Tom Chippendale Jace_C has there been an update on this? I was looking to integrate Stream with Sharepoint search but was unable to
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
Folks on here are correct. We are rebuilding stream on top of SharePoint. So if you want m365 search for videos just upload them to a normal document library. Transcripts for videos In SharePoint is on the roadmap with a date of April I believe. When that is released you can even search in m365 bases on the transcript text.
It seems that Microsoft is really pushing customers to start keeping videos right in SharePoint. Previously videos in a document library didn't stream so you had to put them into Microsoft Video and later Stream. This created search and navigation confusion for our end users. Now that SharePoint and OneDrive support video streaming, the easiest thing to do may be to just add them to a SharePoint document library. The benefit to the users is that now you can have all your content (i.e., documents, pdfs, videos) all in one place with shared property tags.
- Originally, that was the goal for SharePoint I thought. Have everything within the SharePoint site. But later, they decided to pull all that out of SharePoint itself and allow applications to specialize leaving SharePoint for bridging all the applications together and improving SharePoint's overall performance.
If they have changed their mind, and want to once again start having SharePoint be the main repository for videos, so be it... but now, I will be wanting the same functionality that only Stream provides within videos hosted in a SharePoint site:
- automatically creating transcripts that are searchable
- WebPart to display all videos with the same category
- converting the videos into multiple formats for optimal video streaming across any device.
Personally, I hope they choose to keep Stream as the primary video solution, just allow the content to be searchable within SharePoint. That seems a lot easier than adding all the video streaming functionality back into SharePoint.
Is there any updates on this. It is much better all the items is scope of SPO search.
Well it's April 2019 and still no update on integrating video searching in SharePoint. Like most of you, we want to allow our users to find any and all content (i.e., documents, lists, videos, pictures) all from within SharePoint. Seems like a no brainer. Right?
I tried to find a short term solution by using the Stream webpart in a modern site. While this allowed the displaying of certain videos by Stream channel, it didn't resolve the searching from SharePoint. Strike 1.
I then decided to use "links" from within a modern document library. This would keep my videos and documents in one library. The link could then point to an external URL and I could use other tags to enhance the search experience. Unfortunately SharePoint modern document library web parts cannot open an external URL, even Stream. Strike 2.
I then went the list route and created a video library list with links to the Stream videos. While its not in the same library as the documents and doesn't support folders, I will probably be able to get by using some tag/category fields. 1/2 Strike......
I hope 2019 brings a number of improvements to the modern sites, searching, web parts, etc!
- This is not supported today. We are tracking this capability on our backlog but don't have timelines to share right now.
Thanks for the reply.
I'm surprised Microsoft have launched this without considering search integration.
For us, this would really help our intranet users who use a SharePoint as their Google! It means the videos become a bit orphaned off from everything else. It makes Stream a less attractive proposition as a video library in SharePoint at least indexes the files... Hope it becomes part of your release soon!
Best regards
TomUpdate here: this is one of our priorities for 2018, and we appreciate your patience while we work to integrate with enterprise search (in Sharepoint etc.).
