With Dartfish.tv, you can collaborate with teammates by sharing and editing video playlists together. This feature allows selected users to build a playlist collectively and discuss specific video events within a closed working group. 


What you can do 

  •  A user can invite others to a playlist to collaborate on and discuss selected video events. 
  • The working group can interact in a private collaboration space, where only members with access to the playlist can: 
    • Add, remove, and edit events. 
    • Comment on individual events using a dedicated comment thread. 
  • A single match video can be used across multiple collaboration groups. Each group will have its own private playlist, allowing centralized access to content while maintaining group-specific discussions and edits. 


Requirements 

  •     All participants must have viewing rights to the source videos. 
  •     To initiate a collaboration, the playlist owner must have a myDartfish Mobile Plus license or higher. 
  •     Collaborators must have a dartfish.tv account. 


Step-by-Step Guide 

1. Create an Initial Playlist

The playlist owner creates a new playlist with a selection of video events. 

➡️ [Refer to separate article: Personal playlists from dartfish.tv for detailed instructions] 


2. Share the Playlist with Collaborators

  • Open the playlist from the Playlists page available in the user section of the navigation (menu on the left) 
  • Click the Collaborate button (or select the function in the “…” (More) menu.

This opens a pop-up showing the current list of collaborators. The owner can remove existing collaborators or add new ones.

  • To add new collaborators:
    • Click the Add Collaborator button.
    • Select the channel from which you want to choose members.
    • Use the search field to filter members by typing the first few letters of their name or by specifying a member group.
    • Choose one or more users from the filtered results.
    • Click Add to confirm the selection.
    • Once a playlist becomes collaborative (i.e. there are two or more people that can edit it), a new status Edit/View is added to the playlist. Collaborators are by default opening the playlist in a viewer mode. They have to move the Edit cursor to be able modify it, i.e. delete or re-order playlist items.
    • If another collaborator is already editing the playlist, then a warning message is displayed
    • It is always possible to add events to a collaborative playlist even if another collaborator is already editing it. New events will then be added at the end of the playlist

Note: If a member is already part of the collaboration, they will not be added a second time.

3. Joining the Playlist as a Collaborator

  • New collaborators receive an email notification informing them that they’ve been added to the playlist.
  • The new collaborative playlist will appear in their playlists.
  • Collaborators can:
    • View the list of other participants via the Collaborate button (the number of collaborators is overlaid on the button)

4. Collaborate on the Playlist

All group members can interact with the playlist using standard playlist functions.

➡️ [Refer to article: Collaborating on Playlists for full feature overview]


  • Changes made by one user (e.g., adding an event) will appear for others after refreshing their browser.



Commenting on Playlist Events 

A built-in comment thread allows group members to discuss individual events via text. 


Each participant can: 


  1.  Add a comment: 
    • Scroll through the playlist events. 
    • Click the Add Comments icon (speech bubble). 
    • Enter your message in the comments panel and click Save
  2. Edit or Delete only their own comments.

Other participants can read existing comments. 


Note: It is recommended to refresh the comment thread before posting new comments to ensure visibility of the latest updates (Refresh button).



Interaction with myDartfish Express 


Playlists (collaborative or personal) are fully viewable in myDartfish Express, providing an enhanced experience on mobile devices. 

Note: Comments are not yet visible in myDartfish Express.