How to highlight videos in a folder?

[Kevin Crossman]

Ran into this question and can't seem to find a way to do it.

User has some videos in a specific folder in a SharePoint site. We can use File Viewer to add thumbnails of individual videos to a page highlighting these videos, but the user is asking if there's a way to simply point to the folder to show the list of videos in thumbnail (not "file list") format.

Previously, they could use Stream Classic to create a channel of videos and then add the channel to the page via the Stream Classic web part.

Is there a way to do this?

[#2]

The closest I have been able to do is to create a view that includes "Thumbnail" as a column. You can also use the highlighted Web Part to point to the folder and get a thumbnail list.

[#3]

Thanks. You can specify thumbnail in a view? Had not realized that was even possible.

[#4]

Edit current view and "Thumbnail' should be in the list of optional columns. (Its frustrating we can't add images to this forum.)

[#5 · Accepted solution]

@Kevin Crossman - I need to write up a better help doc. I have sort of answered this in this help doc: https://support.microsoft.com/office/stream-on-sharepoint-vs-stream-classic-guide-1601aec0-49a1-48e1... in the "Organize videos into groups & channels" section. 

But let me expand some ideas ....

1. Simple folder - Just files
   1. Upload the videos directly to a folder, send link to the folder
2. Simple folder - Tile view
   1. Upload the videos to a folder
   2. In the library view "All Documents" > Switch to "Tiles"
   3. Open the "All Documents" view and "Save view as", pick the same "All Documents" or make a new view
3. Simple folder - Gallery view
   1.  Upload the videos to a folder
   2. In the library view "All Documents" > "Create a new view"
   3. Give it a name, Show as "Gallery", Create
   4. Click the view picker for the view you just made
   5. Format current view
   6. Click "Document Card Designer" > "Edit card"
   7. Add and remove whatever content you want on the card
   8. Set this new view as the default view (or send a link with this view selected)
4. Highlighted content web part on a page (can use folder or metadata to group videos) 
   1. Follow this guide: Featuring a set of videos on a page - Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn