Community Channels
Channels are collections of content that DEVOS users create and manage. Users record live video or upload new content to their channel to create great collections. Those collections may be valuable to others, and now you can share your channel with other DEVOS systems.
Synchronized Content
When you subscribe to a channel, that channel’s video files are downloaded to your system along with the title, descriptions, and metadata. If the owner of the channel adds or deletes a video, your system will receive the updates.
Community Channels are great for several use cases:
- You have a DEVOS Cloud and a DEVOS Premises system, and you want to duplicate selected channels between the otherwise independent systems.
- You have recorded great education content such as lectures, and you can help the education community by allowing others to use your content, especially within your region, county, or state.
- Discover Video has published channels that include carefully curated content which includes both video files and videos from YouTube that you want to add to your system.
Share Your Channel
It is very easy to share your channel. Simply right-click on your channel under “Manage Channels” and then select “Community Share”. This will expose a link that you can copy or email to another DEVOS system owner.
Subscribe to a Channel
To add a channel to your system, right-click on “Root” under “Manage Channels” and select “Community Share”. Paste in the link that was sent to you.
About Shared Channels
The content is yours, so when you share it you still maintain control. Although other DEVOS systems will download and display your content, it cannot be edited or modified by the subscriber, although they can apply their own security to the channel. Sub-channels are not included within a channel.
Therefore, if you have "My Channel" and under it a sub-channel called "My Stuff", when you share "My Channel" only the content in that channel is shared. If you also want to share "My Stuff", you must provide that community share URL, too.
When you share a channel with another DEVOS system, you must check "Shared Channel" under you channel settings. If the channel is not checked for sharing, then your subscriber will not get the content. This is good because it is your channel, and even if you have distributed the link to other DEVOS users so they have a copy of your channel, you can always simply uncheck "Shared Channel" at any time, and the content will be removed from subscriber's systems. They would have to re-subscribe to restore the channel.
Private Channels
When your channel's "Enable Channel" checkbox is checked, your channel appears in the system landing page, and when it is not checked, the channel is private. You would need to know the web page address (the URL) to view a private channel. The channel owner can simply right-click on the channel in the channel manager and select "Open" to view the channel, and they may share that URL with selected viewers.
A user with Super privilege can use the System Content function and can copy any video (including subscribed channel videos) to any user. Once copied, the video is now "owned" by that user and the user can edit, add questions, etc.
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