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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
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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
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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.
      • BillB0156's avatar
        BillB0156
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        May 26, 2021
        RahulSrivastava I am really hung up on linking the office locations.

        Re-reading the suggestions and I'm still not quite sure what I'm missing so I set up a test.

        I have uploaded a DWG file as a test. I've got 10 rooms labeled (room1 - room10)
        I have created a location for this mythical office, I opted to name the location 1234.
        I've started to add 1234/room1 and 1234/room2 to resources and users.

        I haven't labeled 10 yet, is that (and time) the key to uploading the floor plan successfully? Since I did this all rather recently it's not automatically mapping anything on upload, which is fine by me, but when I get to the "Link office locations" step, nothing that corresponds to anything I've created shows where it says "enter your location AAD code"

        Trying to figure out if that's pulling from the users/resources that I'm setting the "Office" setting for or something else. Some values do show up there, but they're not consistent - for example I see some matches to locations we have on existing resources, but some office locations we have on other resources / users don't appear at all.

        If I key in my test location (1234) it just pops up saying no office locations found in AAD and to add location data to AAD before setting up floor plans. I think this would make more sense if my existing locations that have been in there for ages showed up consistently. For example, one of our known site location codes is 0156.. set on my profile for years, set on rooms, etc. but if I type "01" in that field I get suggestions for 4 other locations, 2 of which I am almost certain come from our resources as they are unique to rooms there (they have an ampersand and list 2 locations which a user would never have!) ...

        Maybe I need to just fill out enough to have 10 for my test and give it time, but I'm stumped as to why my existing codes don't show up.

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