Highlighted Content with New Stream - Displaying Thumbnails
Hello Community! I am looking to create a video archive that is using the new 365 Stream experience. It was https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/portals-guide-training-site#videos-grouped-by-categories to use the Highlighted Content web part to display the videos. But, I am struggling to get the thumbnails to properly display. I have https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/include-a-custom-thumbnail-for-your-video-or-audio-file-with-stream-on-sharepoint-b24f6c73-6496-44d4-bb31-bc0be3e61425 in the new Stream using the Video Settings but it does not reflect that in the Highlighted Content web part when I am in the Filmstrip, Grid or Compact views (which all display thumbnails). But, it works in the Carousel view - so I know that the thumbnail was properly added. What am I missing? I want the SharePoint site to look professional as they browse through multiple videos but I can't seem to get the thumbnails to display properly.OneDrive Desktop Sync\Backup causes Thumbnail Preview to be enabled
Hello Experts, After I install OneDrive and enable sync on the Desktop, my text files, html, pdf look like this Instead of the usual text file, html, PDF icons. As shown, in the first image, OneDrive somehow makes the icon of the text file change into the text file's content, and I want to disable this behavior. I've tried enabling "Always show Icons, Never Thumbnails" in the explorer view settings, but this disables previewing on other file types which do have previewing enabled, even without OneDrive, such as pictures or videos. This was working fine on Win 10, Win 11, without the Desktop backup enabled, as soon as backup is enabled this changes. Stopping the backup, immediately restores the view. In the folder view of Desktop we can select list view or other view to fix this problem partially. However in Desktop there are only 3 views, all of them has the problem. I'm sure this preview is hitting performance issues on the device, trying to build thumbnails of large files. Folders outside the sync doesn't have this issue. They only preview images, videos only as expected default Windows behavior.
Please increase thumbnails / previews in Windows Explorer from 256 to 512 or larger.
Not sure if Microsoft has completly missed the fact that display screen resolutions are increasing globally, yet even the "View > Extra Large Icons" in Windows Explorer with a resolution of 256px is not adequate and more like standard 20 years ago. Microsoft always fames itself for catering to people with disabilities, but these minute thumbnails in Windows Explorer are a real killer for anyone's eyes, with or without disabilities. Please make this change ASAP.
Bug/issue with modern news thumbnail if team site has header image
I'm experiencing a rather strange issue with modern team news. I have this issue on two different O365 tenants. When a team site has a header image - the news thumbnail will render the site header image, not an image from the news post. This is the news web part - the news item thumbnail is the same image as the site header: Even though the news item looks like this:
Best practices for (social media or other multimedia) digital asset management on MS SharePoint
Dear SharePoint community, I would like to ask you if you can give us your best guidance / your tips and advice with regards to digital asset management, how to organise in the best way? Let's assume the context is social media assets, depicting contents from many different brands, and many different products, both packshots, as well as scenery images, as well as videos, and other file types (e.g. .PDF, .PSD, .EPS, .AI, ...). They could also include product catalogues, et cetera. Let's say a large amount of content consisting of a very rich array of multimedia types. Would the best way to organise this be to construct a database of the content as in a SharePoint list (because it has easy filtration, and allows the database to stay 'clean' in that you can tag them with predefined fiels/tags/choices/...) to organise the metadata of the content (think of 'year', 'brand', 'product', 'type: packshots', ... et cetera), and then perhaps connect that to a SharePoint Image Gallery, or is there perhaps something for multimedia assets in general, including videos, such that you have easy access and a thumbnail preview, or a video still ... Or are such one-eye-overview visual / multimedia preview already included in a SharePoint list? Or is it advisable not to use a SharePoint list, but to put the metadata inside the file's columns directly? Is there any SharePoint 'views' that we should pay special attention to when we would start designing such a social media digital asset management? Enterprise Metadata and Keyword Settings seems a very nice feature of SharePoint, I assume that this could be very handy for the purpose described above? Any SharePoint apps or web parts, or content libraries that are advisable? Would appreciate it if you have any information, comments, or perhaps a reference on a generic use-case described above? P.S.: We love this community because we feel that sharing our best practices with others can enable SharePoint to be used to the fully as well as come up with new exciting features. Kind regards, V.
Change thumbnail based on column value
Howdy We release a weekly newsletter where we need to indicate if a program is "on track", "at risk" or "critical". I'm trying to ease the level of effort for authors when creating a page as much as possible. So my hope, was to have a page property of "status" with these three options. Based off the selection, sharepoint would select the appropriate page thumbnail based off two things: The selected property status The author of the page, since each thumbnail is tailored to the author My guess is the answer lies in column formatting, but my novice attempts have failed at producing results. So here I am! TIA!
