Foundation Employee Spotlight Widget
Purpose
Recognize and engage employees with profile cards that highlight their success, anniversaries, achievements, and more.
Features
- Displays a profile image, user name, title and message.
- Selection of the items to display is determined by a predefined selectable value for filtering in the list
- Display order is determined by the sequence specified in the list
- Unlimited number of items to display with chevrons for cycling through
- Number of items to display per page can be selected in the widget instance
- Item is hyperlinked to the dynamic display page for the full user profile
- The Employee Spotlight widget displays a profile image, user name, and message. The widget pulls items from the DeptEmployeeSpotlight_AK list OOTB (the supported list is defined on the widget property). The SharePoint list column “SpolightType” which is set to “SPOTLIGHT 1, SPOTLIGHT 2 and SPOTLIGHT 3 OOTB, can be updated on the list definition to reflect the type of spotlight desired. For example, update the list settings, on DeptEmployeeSpotlight_AK, column “SpotlightType” and set the choice too “Management Team” and “Anniversaries” then add the users, setting their SpotlightType to the new choices. A simple update to the widget property “Spotlight Type”, changing: {“Spotlight1″:”Spotlight1″,”Spotlight2″:”Spotlight2″,”Spotlight3″:”Spotlight3”} to {“Management Team”:”Management Team”,”Anniversaries”:”Anniversaries”}, allows for the desired labels to display on the dropdown selector. For multilingual site a language version of the widget instance is created via the “Widget Manager” and the “Spotlight Type” (widget property) is update to reflect the new desired language. Example, in the Spanish version of the widget instance the property “Spotlight Type” is set to: {“Management Team”:”Equipo de gestión”,”Anniversaries”:”Aniversarios”}, the SpotlightType choices option in the SharePoint list e.g. “Management Team” is mapped to a displayed label on the widget in this case “Equipo de gestión”. The order in which the users appear, are based upon the order users appear in the supporting AppManager slider app e.g. “Employee Spotlight”. Click on a user in the “People Updates” and the user will navigate to the employee detail page for the selected user. Left and right chevrons appear and allow the end user to scroll through all users in the “People Update”, for the selected SpotlightType.
Details
- Widget Name: FoundationEmployeeSpotlightWidget
- Available With: Release 4.5 and Above
- Content App Type: Slider (Working With Slider Type Content Apps)
- Content Type: N/A
- Content App Name: Employee Spotlight
- List Name: EmployeeSpotlight_AK
- Recommended Images Sizes: N/A
- Dependencies: People Sync, Azure Active Directory, SharePoint User Profiles
Content
Title | Title that displays in the content app item list |
Featured Person | Displays the name of the person that you pick to highlight from your company directory |
ImageUrl | Allows you to upload an image if the user doesn’t have a profile image |
DisplayMessage | Message that will display with the featured person |
Job Title | Displays employees job title under their name |
Mail address that will be displayed with the user, overwrites email address of user if they have one in azure | |
OfficeLocation | Office location that displays with the user |
Phone | Phone number that will display with the user, overwrites phone number if user has on in azure |
SpotlightType | Determines the Spotlight category that this user will appear under on the widget
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Properties
Select List Columns | The data fields (columns) from the SharePoint list that the widget should retrieve for use in this instance. |
Cache Interval | Sets the time, in seconds, that the data should be saved in the local browser cache of the current user.
Whole Number = Cache for specific time, in minutes |
List Name | Name of the SharePoint list that contains the data to be displayed for this widget instance. |
Items/Page | How many employee item cards will display on in the widget before chevron are introduced to cycle through the items |
Filter | N/A (used for widget expansion) |
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 |
Spotlight Type | Displays the employees highlighted for the spotlight type that’s active |
Site Collection URL | N/A for this widget: Specifies the site collection URL for a central and delivery site |
List is on Root Site | When checked, the widget references the list on root site. |
Site Owner | Only check this if you want this instance to be a Site Owner version. |
Views
View Name: Employee Spotlight Slider Card
View Description: Displays Employees in a slider card view with a spotlight picker.
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