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Searching for Skills and Interests
I have a similar question. We wish to tag content across SPO and Yammer and have that returned in the Delve search using the deleve search url and own unique ID as a parameter. We would like to be able to bring back all knowledge and people related to a certain technology as part of our Knowledge Base. As things stand I can return documents from SPO, OneDrive and also Office 365 Video. I cannot bring back People Information (see attached) and I cannot seem to bring back Yammer contents. Is this correct behaviour or can this be amended?
Is there a document that provides an overview around what content and resources Delve can index?
Hi Craig Stanley,
I think the issue here is that Delve only lifts certain profile fields from SPO User profile service. We can obviously make some fields in the UPS Indexed but what affect that has I can't be sure for Delve. I find Delve useful but annoying when trying to get it to work in a more tailored way for the end user, the other issue is that MS stand point is this whole solution is in constant development so changes can happen at any point meaning, planning to use it for a specific busiuness case is almost imposbbile. My example was I had custom properties and also Out of the box ones with custome names (Something that the Business could relate to). When the update happened to the modern look that was all lost, this created a large number of calls in tot he Service desk and a comms had to be sent out, guidance had to be given, in all it was a mess.
My opinion for what you have descibed is to not try rely on delve for your solution, use it as it's currently intended by MS and hopefully they'll have a solution that we can rely on, has a proper update lifecycle so we can manage communications to the business etc.
This was helpful when it first started out, but of course things have changed -
http://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2014/09/everything-you-need-to-know-about-delve/
Many thanks
We have been working with Microsoft Support on a number of Delve questions and queries relating to searching accross SharePoint, Office365 Video and People Info. We understand better what is indexed and when and how you can get around the current limitations within the product.
We now have a good way forward for our use of Delve but to address some specific People Search Limitations we have developed a simple PowerBI Dashboard that provides a simple method of searching and filtering People via skills.
This allows us a way to "show all First Aiders, Health and Safety or Union Reps" or filter users by departament and directorate. By going down the Power BI route we have been able to bring together AD, SharePoint and Yammer details and add options to send email messages and text messages direct from the dashboard. We are using this to develop a simple touch screen experience for our Reception Areas.
Is there a method of extracting URLS for User Profile pages in Delve?
This sounds fantastic Craig Stanley. Would there be any way to see a screenshot/snapshot of the dashboard without infringing any Privacy or IP? Did you develop this yourselves or outsource?
Chris
Just as a follow up to previous discussions we have used the following to present up a People / Skills type search experience.
The elements we have used are
- Power BI Report pulling in People data and Hierarchy from AD and O365
- A https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi-visuals/WA104381236?tab=Overviewwithin our Power BI Reports
- PowerApps to provide a home page and a locked down navigation and kiosk style experience navigating through a number of tiles.
This is allowing us to navigate and find People via teams, skills and also elements such as Union Rep, First Aider.
