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Thomas Capacci
Nov 22, 2018Brass Contributor
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 prof...
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.
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
- 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.
- Dec 07, 2018Delve only displays custom user profile properties if you configure them to show in the profile page and by default when you add a custom profile property, it's not configured to show in the profile page
- Dec 07, 2018
OK, fair point. Though I am not sure why anyone would add a custom profile field and then not set it to be visible on the profile page (what's the point).