Office365

In the prior posts in the series, we’ve seen how to set up a page for our employee directory and then create Display Templates to render the information we want for each person, along with a nice alphabetical filtering capability. Up to this point, things have worked pretty much the same as they would in…

In the prior two parts of the series, I covered the idea of an employee directory (or associate directory, or person directory, or whatever you call the people in your company/organization/commune) and how to create the basic page. Once again, I want to give credit to Ari Bakker’s (@aribakker) post that shows how to set…

The first step is, of course, to create a page where the Employee Directory will live. The approach we’re taking here is to use a page in the Search Site Collection in Office365. By default – at least in the tenants I’ve worked with – the Search Site Collection lives at https://[tenant name].sharepoint.com/search. This isn’t…

Employee Directories are a common feature of most Intranets. In fact, I’m working on Employee Directories for two different clients right now. This is such a common need, that it’s firmly embedded in the fantastic work that my friends over at Dynamic Owl have built into their Bonzai Intranet product. We aren’t going to be…