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Heidi Connor
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Jan 17, 2020
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Any tips on getting Floor plans to work?

I've uploaded floor plans for the first floor of one of our buildings. The import went fine, it tells me it sees a count of 35 people (which is correct), but nothing happens on the user cards in my B...
  • RahulSrivastava's avatar
    RahulSrivastava
    Feb 24, 2020

    Mirek_N The labeling is correct in the DWG file. Can you do the following:

     

    1. Mark 10 or more rooms with room labels. Something like ST-10., ST-11 ... ST-20.
    2. Update office locations of 10 or more AAD users with B1/ST-10, B1/ST-11, ... B1/ST-20.
    3. Check whether the changes have reached MS Search. It might take upto 8 days.
      1. To check, open office.com and search for the person with the locations in (2). If the updated address shows up, it will work.
    4. Now upload the floor plans.
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Mirek_N
Iron Contributor
Feb 28, 2020

Heidi Connor RahulSrivastava thank you both for your help! Finally it works 🙂 Where you can find the result? I found it in Bing and in SharePoint when I search within whole organization. Does exist a way how to add this in information e.g. to Teams. It could be nice to have as a new tab next to "Organization" tab when you chat 1:1? I guess that people usually do not use Bing.

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    BillB0156
    Copper Contributor
    May 25, 2021

    I know it's been a while since you asked and has this answered, but I'm at a similar point in trying to set this up and running into the same problem.  I'm hoping some of you are still watching this thread.

     

    Following these instructions:   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/manage-floorplans

     

    I don't have AutoCAD and was given a floor plan for our office and that floorplan was not what I would have expected. No rooms were labeled at all, some equipment was (Microwaves, printers, etc.) 

     

    I figured I could mock something up for demo. I'm hitting a snag on the Link office Locations. That is showing me a lot of options that I suspect show up on some of our users and rooms (under Office), but it's not showing me all options. The 4 digit code that ties to the location I have a map for doesn't appear.

    Any idea of where that is pulling from? Or did you have issues with seeing all options? 

     

    I can push on by picking an incorrect one, but then it goes on to ask me about specifying location patterns for that incorrect location.

     

    Also wondering how you've used that since setting it up. Have you used workspaces at all? Found any better use than Bing?

     

    Mirek_N 

    • RahulSrivastava's avatar
      RahulSrivastava
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      May 25, 2021

      BillB0156 Hi Bill, You mentioned that you mocked up a floor plan for a demo. Does it have room numbers? If yes, did you also update the 'Office' attribute of AAD profiles of users to contain the building code and room numbers? If you do that, then you will see the building code in the drop-down in 'Link office locations'.

      • BillB0156's avatar
        BillB0156
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        May 25, 2021
        I did not have anything on the floor plan that contains room numbers.

        And for the building code, is that coming from the DWG file or is that the building I created in the "Locations" section of the Search & Intelligence.

        What we are planning on doing with this is setting up a site with a lot of unassigned seating so our users will have a building, but not an assigned seat. I though we could reach that minimum of 10 by assigning the rooms the building/room name on the file (but again, it wasn't really done yet)

        I may be thinking of this incorrectly, I thought I could upload the floor plan, create locations and after that is all there, start assigning the Office locations to users.

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