How to change ownership after uploading using sessionUpload?

Lukas August Jakobsen

Hi.

I have a case where I have managed to:

1. Make a folder using an admin account using the API.
2. Set the permissions in that folder to inherit the top folder (personal folder) permission making the ownership of the folder go to the user
3. Upload videos using the API to the new folder

But when the user is trying to share the video the Admin account will need to "allow" them to share it as they are somehow the owner of the files. Is there a method to use the API to make a process where I change the ownership of the videos?

Edit 21.10.24

Okay, while searching a bit I found this: ISessionManagement.UpdateSessionOwner from the soap API.

I made some code to connect myself to the soap API:

def legacylogin(self):

    self.auth

    url = f"https://{self.server}/Panopto/api/v1/auth/legacyLogin"

    return self.session.get(url=url)


auth = Panopto.legacylogin()


# Extract the .ASPXAUTH cookie

aspxauth_cookie = auth.cookies['.ASPXAUTH']


# Define a custom Requests auth class to include the .ASPXAUTH cookie in the headers

class PanoptoAuth(AuthBase):

    def __init__(self, token):

        self.token = token


    def __call__(self, r):

        r.headers['Cookie'] = f'.ASPXAUTH={self.token}'

        return r


# Create a requests session and attach the custom auth handler

session = requests.Session()

session.auth = PanoptoAuth(aspxauth_cookie)


# Create a Zeep transport using the custom session

transport = Transport(session=session)


# Initialize the SOAP client with the WSDL and custom transport

client = Client(f"https://{PANOPTO_SERVER_HOST}/Panopto/PublicAPI/4.6/SessionManagement.svc?wsdl", transport=transport)


# video_id // user_id

owner = client.service.UpdateSessionOwner(sessionIds="", newOwnerUserKey="")

This code uses the token I get from using the legacylogin to send stuff to soap. but when running I'm getting problems with finding out the "newOwnerUserKey". I am guessing it is the user_id to the user?

The "sessionIds" is either one of these that I find on the videos:

Am I using this right? or is this only made for Folders? And how do I find out what to send as "newOwnerUserKey" and "sessionIds"?

Kevin Baum

Hi Lukas,

The newOwnerUserKey should be the full user name of the user that is the new owner, including the ID Provider name ([IDProviderInstanceName]\[UserName]). If the user is not an SSO user, then you can just send their UserName as the newOwnerUserKey.

The sessionIds should be a list of one or more IDs for the session(s) that will be moved to the new owner. You'll want to find the Delivery ID for each session, which you can find by searching for a session using Panopto's API, or on the Manage screen of the Session information, in the screenshot you linked above.

I hope that this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks,

Kevin