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Thomas Capacci's avatar
Thomas Capacci
Brass Contributor
Nov 22, 2018

Getting employee's address from Delve

We have an Intranet running on SharePoint, and we use a third-party people finder plugin (from Valo) to search for employees, once we click more info for an employee it takes us to the the Delve profile.

 

One of the most requested property is the Office Address fro employees, but I cant seem to find a way to get it displayed in Delve. 

 

Any hope or should we start creating our own employee directory using SharePoint lists or something else...

8 Replies

  • KevinCrossman's avatar
    KevinCrossman
    MVP
    Dec 06, 2018

    If you add those fields to the SharePoint profile (or any custom field) using the old SharePoint admin center then those fields ARE displayable in Delve.  Look for old circa 2013 articles on how to add profile fields in SharePoint.

     

    Now, can you count on this working forever, since it seems to be a deprecated feature (like how Delve is sort of deprecated)? No, of course not.

    • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
      jcgonzalezmartin
      MVP
      Dec 06, 2018
      That's partially correct...Delve only surfaces some of the SPO user profiles, so even you can modify a bunch of them there, not all are going to be displayed in Delve and as I said, you cannot customized Delve profile page
      • KevinCrossman's avatar
        KevinCrossman
        MVP
        Dec 07, 2018

        Delve displays the custom fields in the profile, but yes you are correct you can't change the layout of the Delve UI.

  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Nov 23, 2018
    Well, bearing in mind that you cannot customize Delve I would advice to create your own People Finder solution (just in case a third party solution is not an option here) that realies on the Microsoft Graph and gets all the information from Azure AD...in Azure AD you will need to have informed all the user data