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employee directory
Hi matthieu2906,
There is excellent people and organization information in Office 365, with Contact Cards, Delve, Teams etc., but nothing "out of the box" with SharePoint will meet your needs. A 3rd party web part or custom solution would be in order.
If you are going custom, I think the SharePoint list formatting samples on GitHub are interesting - especially the User Profile Card.
I hope this helps.
Norm
RobElliott
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does that not require manual editing when employee changes happen? Or maybe a manual upload once-a-month?
TruSane Check out Powerapps templates when you create new ones, there is one for Employee Directory in there, you can take this link and post it up on your intranet and you can even easily customize it from there.
This app pulls from the Office365 Users connector which reads from the directory. You can even furthur your search and or gallery by certain attributes even, such as for company, we have our company name for all actual employee's filled in and I filter by that to make sure just employee's show up.
I use the built in template for Mobile access. And I created my own using Horizontal Galleries that is a link people click, and search and can get details. It's not the prettiest but it works.
ChrisWebbTech Here is my template for the app. It's super simple really. Just import it in, then under App, put in your company name, assuming you use that attribute in AD, otherwise you'll have to go strip it from the gallery filters on the first screen on both galleries. Anyway, once Company Name is set on the Apps OnStart, make sure to run it after so it sets the variable. Then you can save and link to this App in your intranet. Append the &hidenavbar=true at the end of the App URL to strip the bar etc.
Anyway, you can easily tweak this, but you can get the idea how to do it from the App template and make it your own if you want to tweak the looks!
Anyway, hope this helps some of you, but I think it's a simple easy approach to a quick "Dynamic Employee Directory" with search and minimal information.
Hello ChrisWebbTech
Thanks for sharing your app, I'm trying to upload it to my PowerApps but I get the error that something was wrong and try again later.
Any ideas?
Maybe a security issue?
Thanks again,
ChrisWebbTech I am getting in and playing with this and I don't want to futz around with things too much only to find there is a reason you did things the way you did.
Do you foresee there being any issue with my replacing the text input with a people picker that autofills?
Also, thank you so much!- Na not really. You’ll just have to replace the items property on the gallery referencing that textbox and replace it with the people picker .email or you could have onselect for the picker just go straight to the details page and for that pass the people picker selection.
Hey ChrisWebbTech
Any chance you can provide an updated link to the template? 🙂
Am currently building an employee directory and would like to build off the template you're made.
Regards,
Jordan
Odd sorry all. The link never moved so not sure why it quit. Here is new link. I’ll also update original.
https://webbtech365-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/chriswebb_webbtech_org/EedKP_Yo0eROkpyocplkH8oBELcOUOZKAPIRJ1QD4xpmZw?e=RSEgrD*Updated 10-28-21 again.....
