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The best personal dashboard apps for various productivity methods
Hey there, fellow productivity enthusiast! Are you also trying to build your own digital control center? Let's face it, we've all had those days when our to-do lists seem never-ending and we wonder how we'll ever get it all done.
The best replacements for Outlook’s Calendar Board
In June ’23 Microsoft – after just two years – will retire Calendar Board, Outlook’s special calendar view (available on the web version only) that let you add widgets to a personal dashboard. You had a choice of about a dozen different widgets and could arrange them anyway you liked, but the experience was always a little finicky and never saw 3rd party widget support. Released in 2021 at a similar time to Viva Connections, it was showing a degree of UI polish that suggested – when first released – Microsoft was indeed very committed to the idea of creating…
10 best SharePoint integrations [Updated 2024]
Having always been a popular Intranet platform, in recent years SharePoint has become ubiquitous. In part thanks to Viva Connections, a new set of features that improve employee engagement. Through Microsoft App Source, organizations find apps and extensions that suit their particular needs, for example to include data from outside sources like IT tickets, holiday allowances, lunch menus, etc. This helps make SharePoint into a hub for all external data so users have to spend less time hunting for tabs, and can monitor things more conveniently and centrally. In this blog post we have summarized the 10 most popular business…
The adenin 2023 Spring Release: New features for SharePoint users and new apps
With SharePoint and Viva Connections driving a new wave of improving the employee’s intranet experience, we’ve been hard at work to further improve the Adenin platform integration with those two products. Introducing App Connections for Viva and SharePoint This is a new web part that automatically (or as we call it, automagically) creates lists from the over 100 apps in our App Directory, such as ServiceNow, Hubspot, Workday, and many more. With App Connections users can: To start simply head over to Microsoft App Source and install the app to your SharePoint & Viva Connections. New app adding experience It…
The 6 best apps for Viva Connections
Viva Connections’ dashboard is a fresh, new take on an intranet dashboard. Available both on SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, in a recent overhaul the dashboard has become even more central on the Viva homepage. This area is therefore coming into the focus of many admins and comms teams who discover that you can not just make your own Cards, you can also get Cards that let you connect to other work tools. This promises to improve the usability of your new intranet homepage, so in this post we’ll look at the 6 best apps for Viva Connections for improving your…
Make an Adaptive Card with Zapier
Zapier is the most popular business automation platform. It’s main goal is to bridge gaps between applications by letting you push data from any of it’s 5000 apps to another one. Once you setup such a Zap, it is executed seamlessly behind the scenes. However there are certain scenarios where you may not want your data to stay “behind” the scenes. For example, people building personal dashboards might want to see their data aggregated on their screen. Clearbox reports that monitoring all aspects of a business, from one place, is a core aim of an efficient digital workplace.Indeed, Zapier offers…
How to add apps to Viva Connections dashboard
Viva Connections is the new gateway to other Viva services within Microsoft’s new suite of employee experience tools and resources. The Dashboard, specifically, shows users little summaries of other Viva services as a way conveniently track one metrics and jump right into relevant resources. Administrators can create their own Cards for the Dashboard, by adding Card designer Cards to the Dashboard. These take any Adaptive Card schema that you can make yourself from scratch or by editing one of the many templates that are available. However, this built-in Card designer Card has no way to connect to any data sources…
6 things about Viva Connections admins should know
With tools that help you learn, share knowledge, maintain wellbeing, and more, Viva is the name for Microsoft’s push into the employee experience space. Viva Connections, specifically, aims to be a gateway to all the other Viva services, with their more specialized UIs, and generally a hub for all kinds of relevant content for the user. In this blog post we’ll specifically talk about Viva Connections and whether it’s a product you should consider deploying to your Microsoft 365. Viva Connections is really two products Viva Connections consists of your Feed and your Dashboard. The Feed is pretty self-explanatory: it’s…
Adaptive Cards roadmap and currently supported versions (Updated Oct ’22)
We’re working a lot with Adaptive Cards at Digital Assistant, and we’re frequently find new features that even Microsoft isn’t reporting about in their blog. So we’ve had an internal wiki page that lists all the different versions, and possibly upcoming features, that we shared in the team. Now we thought, why not share it with you, too. This is our ultimate roundup of Adaptive Cards’ version history, future features and list of the main apps that support it. Adaptive Card Roadmap The next version is going to be v1.6 and there are a whole slew of features that have…
How to make an Adaptive Card with data in MS Teams
Adaptive Cards have become the pre-eminent way to make Cards. They’re simple enough to build, yet interactive enough to be useful for almost any use case. You can read a full insider’s guide about what unexpected pitfalls you should consider. First-time Adaptive Card developers frequently want to make a Card so that it can be sent to a channel or colleague in Teams. So in this guide, we’ll explore two ways you can do this. Both are not without compromises, so be sure to think twice before committing. Official way: Post updates to MS Teams The official way Microsoft recommends…