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.

Note:

If you find a different solution, please report it as a comment to this post. Be sure to double-verify it: undo your solution and verify that the problem comes back, then redo it and verify that the problem goes away.

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!

http://365.webbrewers.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=9

http://www.eliostruyf.com/adding-a-custom-action-to-a-callout-in-sharepoint-2013/

http://junestime.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/javascript-open-links-in-new-windowtab-in-sharepoint-2010/

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

References: 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee414275(v=office.15).aspx