Forum Discussion
Replace a video when it has been updated
Our videos are almost always a work in progress so it is essential that I can replace the video on Stream with the latest version without disrupting the embedded versions. Can this be done?
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
We don't have this ability in Stream right now. Can you add this idea to our Stream Ideas forum so others can vote/comment on it?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/idb-p/StreamIdeasIn case anyone else hits this one in a search like I did, the idea has been added and it's here:
There is also at least one other request for the same here (in case anyone knows how to merge these):
- Marc Mroz
Thanks Bill Blais - I merged the 2 ideas.
This one had all the votes and comments now:
We know this features is important and hope to get to it in the next few quarters, but keep the votes coming if this is really important to you.
- Agreed - we'll have a number of training videos which will get updated as processes change. Not having the ability to overwrite / update an existing video means all training documentation will have to be updated to a new link, and previous training docs will essentially be full of broken links.
- One more thing besides broken links; it appears any previous views / likes / comments will also get lost since you're essentially creating a brand new video.
agreed on this, we have just updated a video, and it is likely will have more iteration of updates; and have to re-link several documents linking to this video.
Yes, you can! This capability has been added to Microsoft Stream. Content owners and Stream admins can replace existing video files with a new version without changing the URL, video details, or permissions. You can find how to do that in this Microsoft Q&A. Tom Bubulka
