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Searching private Office 365 Group files using Delve
Hi all, is there any update on when private group files will be visible in Delve? It has been "rolling out" for some time now on the http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap#R-31853, and according...
I found a bit of a work around to this.
- Open the group document
- Open "Library Settings" (via gear icon at top)
- Open "Permissions for this document library"
- Add the users individually to the Members group
Office Graph / Delve will then index the files. It takes a few minutes for the files to show up.
Not sure why it does this - the only member in the members group is the name of the group. It must be different to a standard sharepoint group and Graph doesn't (yet) understand it. Someone would be able to explain this behaviour I'm sure...
Mmm...I think this workaround it's a little bit dangerous since you are breaking the essence of Groups in regards of security...of course, you can modify the security of the site group as you are describing, but I don't think this is the way to go to make group files discoverable in Delve