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Cannot reliably search Videos in Stream Search.
Only if you type the title of the video completely and in full are you able to search for the video, and only that 1 video.
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Is this still open, I don't see any feedback since November.
I'm guessing it is still open because my experience with search in stream has been terrible. Searching using an exact title does not yield results including videos with that title/name. Sort is completely useless- if you can't find something using search it would at least be helpful to be able to sort by name, or an attribute you might actually search on. You don't search on relevance, date uploaded, views, or likes.. yet you can sort on them.
I've only come back to this thread because I had a notification that there was a reply in the hope that I would get an update. No far, nothing. I wonder what people who purchased the Stream licenses are experiencing?
Actually, just went back and tried the search in hope, apologies I gave up long ago. BUT IT ACTUALLY WORKS!
Any updates or news? The search in stream doesn't work fine… :(
Nine months since the last unhelpful reply by Microsoft, where they expressed their "hope" that they could provide a useable search function. Clearly we are too impatient.
Can you provide some more information? Are there are videos with similar name that you expect to appear in the search results?
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
Sorry to hear you are having troubles. Adding Adarsh Solanki to help investigate
