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People Directory Widget
Purpose
Provides access to the company directory, so users can find and engage with their fellow employees.
Features
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- Utilizes either the SharePoint Profile Service or Azure Active Directory/Microsoft Graph API to display personnel data
- Includes search and filtering for fast and efficient employee lookups
- Includes both a grid view (shown) as well as a list view
- Provides ability to adjust and add new filter facets
Details
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- Widget Name: PeopleDirectoryWidget
- Available With: Release 4.0 and Above
- Content App Type: N/A
- Content Type: N/A
- Content App Name: N/A
- List Name: N/A
- Recommended Images Sizes: N/A
- Dependencies: Akumina People Sync/SharePoint User Profile/Azure AD
Content
N/A
Properties
| Displayed Title | Title that the widget will display to the user |
| Sort By | The default sort order, ascending or descending |
| Facets | Facets is an array of properties you can filter the people results on. Example – Department, Office Location etc. |
| Get Photo from AD | Uses the photo from the users Azure Active Directory profile |
| Display Names As | Determines if you display names as First Last or Last, First |
| Show A-Z Selector | Displays the A-Z filter selector if checked |
| Default Display View | Determines the default display, either tile or grid view |
| Function to call before binding the UI events | OOTB -Blank (used for widget expansion): Name of the function called after the UI has been rendered to the screen |
| Function to call after fetching data | OOTB -Blank (used for widget expansion): Name of the function called after data has been fetched by the widget. |
| propcallbackmethod | OOTB - Blank (used for widget expansion): Name of the function that allows you to alter the property bag before the API is called |
Views
View Name: People Directory
View Description: Displays search, with filters, list or grid view, and three employee cards per row in a left to right, top to bottom stacked responsive layout.
View Preview:
View Name: peoplefinder
View Description: Displays search, with drop-down filters, list or grid view, and three employee cards per row in a left to right, top to bottom stacked responsive layout.
View Preview: