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matthieu2906
Copper Contributor
Mar 21, 2019
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employee directory

Hi,   on our intranet (modern sharepoint site) we'd like to have an employee directory. i showed delve to my management but they don't like the fact that there are all files and other infos showin...
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  • Norman Young's avatar
    Norman Young
    Mar 21, 2019

    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

     

     

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ChrisWebbTech
MVP
Sep 23, 2019

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. 

 

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ChrisWebbTech
MVP
Sep 23, 2019

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. 

 

https://webbtech365-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/chriswebb_webbtech_org/EedKP_Yo0eROkpyocplkH8oBELcOUOZKAPIRJ1QD4xpmZw?e=2oiGq8 

 

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. 

  • ADumith's avatar
    ADumith
    Iron Contributor
    Apr 26, 2022

    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,

  • TruSane's avatar
    TruSane
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 25, 2020

    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!

    • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
      ChrisWebbTech
      MVP
      Aug 25, 2020
      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.
  • JordanLevy's avatar
    JordanLevy
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 12, 2020

    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

  • Ryan Helmer's avatar
    Ryan Helmer
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 29, 2020

    ChrisWebbTechChris, the link for your template no longer appears to work. Do you have it posted elsewhere, or could you re-post it? 🙂

     

    Thank you!

    Ryan 

  • jokull's avatar
    jokull
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 24, 2019
    Hey Chris
    Thank you for a good advice using power app for this.
    One question, does this require all users of the employee search to have a power app license?
    Our users have E3 and F1 licenses
    • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
      ChrisWebbTech
      MVP
      Sep 24, 2019
      Those licenses work just fine for PowerApps. This is just a built in O365 connector, nothing premium about it.
      • TruSane's avatar
        TruSane
        Brass Contributor
        Sep 25, 2019

        Thank you, ChrisWebbTech. I appreciate your work on this and your willingness to share it. I will likely end up just taking what you've made here. 

        That said, I have a simple bunch who prefer the least amount of info needed in the least amount of clicks so was hoping to stay right on the intranet (which I will look into doing) and forgo (or minimize) the images. So, visually like what is above, but continuously updating like the one you've got there. 

        That said, there is no perfect solution and yours comes the closest from what I can tell.