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Permanent stream URL - or single URL with scheduled streams linked to it

Patricia BeddowsPatricia Beddows Tyro
in Feature Requests

Sincerely begging for help here. PLEASE - Don't force us to retreat in defeat and use Zoom again!!!

We are desperate to have one single URL for our weekly recurring and scheduled meetings in Panopto. Specifically - our weekly seminars - where we push out these and having individual urls that must be meticulously updated every week - and for each seminar -…. on our webpage, emails, flyers, hallway monitors - etc^2. It is simply impossible.

In the Q&A - one of the admins suggested sending out the link to the folder. Not good enough - we are dealing with a public audience to our seminars…. and that speakers grandpops is not tech savvy and furthermore is trying to connect on their phone. No - link to folders is not a solution for public audiences.

We are seriously considering retreating to zoom - since we can have one link that works… and it is so frustrating that I can't figure out how to get this on Panopto.

And more frustrating to see discussions on the Q&A and feature request asking for this over the last years.

I can understand from a programing view - that each booked sessions generates a distinct instance / recording. Maybe the way to get this to work is you have a place where we can have a single URL - and we then manually link to the scheduled (or ad hoc) instances/streams. Then when a person uses that single URL - Panopto connects them to the next scheduled one…. or the one that is currently livecasting…. [ that should be simple enough coding math…. Single URL connects to next chronological instance/stream.

Sincerely begging for help. PLEASE - Don't force us to retreat in defeat and use Zoom again!!!

Trish Beddows - a very frustrated Assistant Chair

Northwestern University

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  • Brianna ParkerBrianna Parker Administrator

    Hey, Patricia!

    First, I want you to know that I've personally flagged this with our team — your feedback is not going unnoticed, and we value your honesty in how this has been a major roadblock for your organization.

    We do already have this logged as FR-3593 (Permanent stream URL/Stream key for webcasts, Persistent link for creating an RTMP webcasts), and it has gotten a lot of attention from other customers and our team. While I can't say when/if this feature will be implemented, I can assure you that it is actively being considered by our teams.

    In your organization's workflow, do you have any desire to retain the old webinars? Or would it be better to simply replace the previous recording with the most recent one? Both have been brought up in the past, so I want to make sure we include your feedback on those discussions as well.

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