02 June, 2014

Open Videos in a new window/tab - SharePoint 2013

New digital asset content types, Thumbnail–centric views, Image previews, Automatic metadata extraction for image files, Podcasting support through RSS – You must be wondering what’s this? J Quite obvious! These are all the features of asset library which is there in SharePoint 2013.

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Asset Library: Additional functionality to support the storage and organization of rich media, such as images, videos, or audio files.

Every time I tried opening the video files, they opened in the same window which I don’t want, there has to be a separate window in which I can open & view these video files!

How to do this? – Thank you for reading this article as this will give you the exact guidelines to achieve this!

There are two ways to achieve this end result:
1.    Out of box way | Default functionality
2.    Programming way

Out of box way:
1.    Open your asset library
2.    Change the view options
3.    Switch to “All Assets” view
4.    Right click on the Video file
5.    Open in a new window

Programming way:
Two references which are pretty awesome and useful too!



I hope the above information will be helpful for all of you! In case of any queries/questions then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Product applies to:
SharePoint 2013

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