Microsoft Viva Engage is a social platform within Microsoft 365 that replaces Yammer. It helps employees communicate, share ideas, and strengthen engagement through communities, posts, and integration with Teams and Outlook.
Table of Contents
- What is Viva Engage
- Technical specifications needed for connection
- PLAYipps Viva Engage integration
- Activating Viva Engage integration
Microsoft Viva Engage is a modern social and communication platform for businesses that is part of the Microsoft365 family and replaces the previous Yammer within the Viva platform. Essentially, it functions as an internal social network where employees can build and participate in communities, share ideas, questions and stories through features such as Storyline and Stories, and follow colleagues to strengthen togetherness and engagement. Through integration with Teams, Outlook and other Viva apps, communication between employees and management is facilitated, knowledge sharing is promoted and contributes to creating an inclusive company culture.
Technical specifications needed for connection
The integration with Viva Engage uses an OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow with delegated access. This means that the user must actively approve the access, and the integration then acts with the same rights as the user.
The following scopes are used:
- Offline_access
- https://api.yammer.com
- User_impersonation
PLAYipps Viva Engage integration
By integrating with Viva Engage, you can automatically retrieve and display posts from specific groups (communities), posts that contain a specific topic (topic), or posts within a specific group that are tagged with a specific topic. These posts can then be displayed in a feed widget on your digital screens, making it easy to spread relevant communication and engagement in real time.
Activate Viva Engage integration
To add an integration, follow these steps:
- Click "Integrations"
- Click "Viva Engage / Yammer"
- Click "Add to PLAYipp"
- Click "Authenticate Viva Engage / Yammer account"
- You will now need to log in to your Microsoft environment if you are not already logged in.
- You now get to choose what you want to include in the source you create. Start by creating a name for the source
- You can now filter by group and or Topic/tag.
If you want to show everything in a group, just select a group.
Everything with a subject/tag in a group then selects both.
Everything with a topic/tag, you just choose it.
- Here you can seach for a group
- Here you filter for tags
- When you are done with this, click on “add source”
- Now we have a finished source that we can use in a widget.
- To display your source on a screen, follow this guide: How to add a feed widget