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12 Sep 2023

πŸ“Ί In this 12 minute developer-focused demo Vesa walks the audience through new capabilities in SPFx 1.18. They start with an overview of building experiences in Microsoft 365 with SPFx (the easiest way to build enterprise soluitions for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva, Outlook, Microsoft 365 app and SharePoint) and then proceed to roadmap outlook. Alex then demoes updated layout options for Viva connections powered by SPFx.

This demo is taken from the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform weekly call – 22nd of August, 2023. Join the next call! Download recurrent invite from https://aka.ms/community/calls

✨ Presenters
- Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen
- Alex Terentiev (Microsoft) | @alexaterentiev


πŸ’‘ Learn more about the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform - http://aka.ms/community/home

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  • 3 participants
  • 13 minutes
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10 Aug 2023

πŸ“Ί As a Viva Connections Admin, you can pin multiple Forms in the dashboard, but don’t. In this 9-minute developer-focused demo, Marcus Castro suggests a way to reduce Viva Dashboard clutter. Cleanly open/respond to multiple forms using Stage View accessed from this single custom ACE card or access multiple Power Apps from this custom ACE. Address process and authentication challenges. The benefits will become clear in demo. How does it work - review supporting list structure, ACE card configuration and deep-link generation.

This community call demo is taken from the Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Bi-weekly sync call recorded on June 15, 2023.

✨ Demo Presenter
β€’ Marcus Castro (Microsoft)

πŸ“– Supporting materials
β€’ Documentation - Link to a Form | https://learn.microsoft.com/viva/connections/use-the-link-card#link-to-a-form
β€’ Documentation - Link to PowerApps | https://learn.microsoft.com/viva/connections/use-the-link-card#link-to-powerapps
β€’ Sample - Basic Card - Multiple Forms | https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-aces/tree/main/samples/BasicCard-Multiple-Forms-Apps
β€’ Documentation - Overview of Viva Connections | https://learn.microsoft.com/viva/connections/viva-connections-overview
β€’ Documentation - Create deep links | https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/build-and-test/deep-links
β€’ Samples – SPFx ACE Samples | https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-aces/tree/main/samples
β€’ Documentation – Designing Viva Connections Quick Views | https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/spfx/viva/design/designing-quick-view
β€’ Documentation – Viva Connections Adaptive Card Extension Quick View samples | https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/spfx/viva/design/quick-view-samples
β€’ Repo – TeamsDeeplinkHelper (Deep-link Generator App) | https://github.com/ericsche/TeamsDeeplinkHelper

πŸ’‘ Learn more about the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform - http://aka.ms/community/home

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  • 1 participant
  • 9 minutes
powerapps
sharepoint
dashboard
apps
microsoft
users
card
connections
forms
sso
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13 Jul 2023

Jethro Seghers delivers a 10-minute developer-focused demo targeting the student persona. Viva Connections for Education (student’s digital home dashboard with cards for resource access, student-teacher connections, and more), EDU specific code samples (tuition fees, library loans, book a space, internships, scholarships), Adoption Toolkit (Best practices for Viva Connections Adoption, Day in a life for a student using VCE, Communication templates and documentation) what’s next?

This PnP Community demo is taken from the Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Bi-weekly sync call recorded on May 18, 2023.

Demo Presenter
β€’ Jethro Seghers (Microsoft) | @jseghers

Supporting materials
β€’ Zip file – Viva Connections for Education Adoption Guide | aka.ms/VCEAdoptionToolkit
β€’ Documentation - Overview of Viva Connections for Education | aka.ms/VCE
β€’ Repo - Viva Connection Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) sample repository | aka.ms/spfx-aces

Learn more
β€’ Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community - http://aka.ms/community/home
  • 1 participant
  • 10 minutes
viva
education
connections
visa
eva
internships
tuition
understand
different
accenture
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27 Jun 2023

πŸ“Ί In this 12-minute Maker/Developer focused demo, Paolo Pialorsi delivers the 3rd installment on this end-to-end retail solution scenario that you can build in Microsoft 365. In this particular demo, the focus is on the back-end .NET API relied upon by both the Teams personal app and a Viva Connections card. See in call in Postman and code in SPFx app for how to consume the API in a secure way by providing a token – easily configured.

This community call demo is taken from the weekly Microsoft 365 Platform Community call recorded on June 27, 2023.

✨ Demo Presenter
β€’ Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys.com) | @PaoloPia

πŸ“– Supporting materials
β€’ Sample - Contoso Retail Dashboard | https://adoption.microsoft.com/sample-solution-gallery/sample/pnp-spfx-reference-scenarios-samples-react-retail-dashboard/
β€’ Documentation - Build your first SharePoint Adaptive Card Extension | https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/spfx/viva/get-started/build-first-sharepoint-adaptive-card-extension
β€’ Demo - Extend SPFx apps across Microsoft 365 - Contoso Retail scenario (2023-06-06) – Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia
β€’ Demo (June 13) - Exposing Microsoft Teams apps in Microsoft Viva with SPFx cards – Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia

πŸ’‘ Learn more about the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform - http://aka.ms/community/home

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  • 2 participants
  • 13 minutes
sharepoint
backend
demo
presentation
microsoft
api
leveraging
connection
viva
configuring
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13 Jun 2023

In this 16-minute developer focused demo, Paolo Pialorsi reviews capabilities of cards and rendering devices. QuickView and CardView cards (ACEs) can be created with no-code (configurable), low-code (designable) or pro code (customizable). Step through ACE creation using yeoman generator, creating a CardView card with specific elements (images, text, buttons). Scaffold and explore the code. Discuss getting data from external sources, data binding, deep linking, and usage of secured Azure Functions in back-end. Add a button and register views.

This PnP Community demo is taken from the weekly Microsoft 365 Platform Community call recorded on June 13, 2023.

Demo Presenter
β€’ Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia

Supporting materials
β€’ Sample - Contoso Retail Dashboard | https://adoption.microsoft.com/sample-solution-gallery/sample/pnp-spfx-reference-scenarios-samples-react-retail-dashboard/
β€’ Documentation - Build your first SharePoint Adaptive Card Extension | https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/spfx/viva/get-started/build-first-sharepoint-adaptive-card-extension
β€’ Demo - Extend SPFx apps across Microsoft 365 - Contoso Retail scenario (2023-06-06) – Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia

Learn more
β€’ Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community - http://aka.ms/community/home
  • 2 participants
  • 17 minutes
dashboard
application
interface
demo
presentation
advanced
microsoft
sharepoint
configuring
viva
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6 Jun 2023

Leverage your existing bot investments (code) and expose functionality in Viva. In this 7-minute developer focused demo, Luca Bandinelli enables you to teach your bot how to speak Viva! Learn about Bot powered ACEs, implementation details, packaging and distribution. No Coding, self-contained bot deployed to SharePoint via a package. Step through code, manifest, create package, upload to app catalog, go to dashboard, add card. Talk about authentication and updating, Capability goes to Public Preview this week.

This PnP Community demo is taken from the weekly Microsoft 365 Platform Community call recorded on June 6, 2023.

Demo Presenter
β€’ Luca Bandinelli (Microsoft)

Supporting materials
β€’ Article - Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.17 with updates for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint

Learn more
β€’ Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community - http://aka.ms/community/home
  • 1 participant
  • 7 minutes
bots
bot
dashboard
package
enabled
server
sharepoint
aces
sync
token
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1 Jun 2023

In this 12-minute developer-focused demo, Siddharth Vaghasia shares the output of an explorational Dev experience using OpenAI, Prompt Engineering, ChatGPT, and calling external APIs. ACE with a PrimaryText card view and a quick view using ChatGPT OpenAI API. Card provides user with informational/motivational quotes, tips etc. Configurable options include API key, select prompt/category, max token, card title and description. Uses session storage to limit the number of requests per user. Deliberate UI and Code walk through (Code Tour).

This PnP Community demo is taken from the Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Bi-weekly sync call recorded on June 1, 2023.

Demo Presenter
β€’ Siddharth Vaghasia | @siddh_me

Supporting materials
β€’ Documentation – OpenAI Rate limits overview | https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits/overview
β€’ Sample - Daily Insights with ChatGPT | https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-aces/tree/main/samples/PrimaryTextCard-ChatGPTDailyInsights
β€’ Documentation - CodeTour | https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/educators/codetour

Learn more
β€’ Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community - http://aka.ms/community/home
  • 2 participants
  • 12 minutes
insights
ai
api
adaptive
gpt
card
provider
programming
sharepoint
pnp
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31 May 2023

Viva Connection is your mobile friendly portal for your employees to stay connected with your company. Viva Connections is part of the Microsoft Viva employee experiences platform, which provides you tools and features for efficient employee engagement and for increasing productivity of your employees.

Viva Connections dashboard can be extending by using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and you can acquire these solutions directly from the partner ecosystem or by using the Microsoft AppSource/Marketplace directly within your tenant.

In this videos we cover the extensibility options of Viva Connections, talk about the value proposition of the dashboard and walkthrough the process of acquiring Viva apps to your tenant from the Microsoft AppSource.

You can see all Microsoft Viva solutions in Microsoft AppSource (store) using following link - https://aka.ms/viva/store

In this video, you will learn about
- What is Viva Connections and how it's exposed in the Microsoft Teams
- How you can personalize and customize Viva Connections dashboard
- How you can acquire new ISV partner cards for you Viva Connections deployment directly from the Microsoft AppSource

✨ Presenter
β€’ Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft)

πŸ“ƒ Agenda
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Introduction on the Viva Connections experience
2:56 How to edit and customize the Viva Connection dashboard
5:14 Suggested partner cards in the Viva Connection card picker
7:22 Viva solutions in the Microsoft AppSource
9:12 How apps are acquired from the store
10:43 Recap on covered topics

πŸ“ Learn more
β€’ Microsoft Viva - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva
β€’ Overview of Viva Connections - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/viva-connections-overview
β€’ Set up and launch Viva Connections - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/viva-connections-setup-guide
β€’ Overview of Viva Connections Extensibility - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/viva/overview-viva-connections
β€’ Create Adaptive Card Extensions (ACE) for Microsoft Viva Connections - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/sharepoint-spfx-adaptive-card-extension-card-types/
β€’ Publish SharePoint Framework applications to the marketplace - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/publish-to-marketplace-overview

πŸ’‘ Learn more about the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community
β€’ Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform - http://aka.ms/community/home

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  • 1 participant
  • 11 minutes
viva
application
apps
microsoft
vivo
navigation
configurable
connection
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30 May 2023

85% of EDU app interaction happens via mobile phones and Viva Connections is mobile device optimized. In this 14-minute developer focused demo, Jethro Seghers is delighted to share that now all EDU Viva cards (assignments, courses, library loans, tuition loans, internships, etc.) are open source, GA to all EDU customers. Cards simplify resource access connect students and immediately deployable. See the latest cards, look at the samples, build actionable ACE cards for EDU. Future direction suggested. Please let us know.


This PnP Community demo is taken from the weekly Microsoft 365 Platform Community call recorded on May 30, 2023.

Demo Presenter
β€’ Jethro Seghers (Microsoft) | @jseghers

Supporting materials
β€’ Article – Microsoft Viva Connections for Education – Now Available to all Customers | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/education-blog/microsoft-viva-connections-for-education-now-available-to-all/ba-p/3832809
β€’ Documentation - Overview of Viva Connections for Education | https://learn.microsoft.com/viva/connections/overview-viva-connections-education
β€’ Web page – Microsoft Viva Learning | https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-viva/learning
β€’ Previous demo – Creating custom SPFx components for Microsoft Viva Connections for Education – Jethro Seghers (Microsoft) | @jseghers (delivered 18th May)
β€’ Samples - EDU ACE Code samples | https://adoption.microsoft.com/sample-solution-gallery/jesegher/

Learn more
β€’ Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community - http://aka.ms/community/home
  • 2 participants
  • 13 minutes
connections
fiva
viva
understanding
education
confused
relevant
assignment
internships
new
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24 Apr 2023

In this 10-minute developer-focused demo, Yves Habersaat delivers an introduction to the Graph Presence API, API methods, presence sessions, presence sessions with SPFx, a setPresence method example, and suggestion to use Graph Explorer to experiment with API. This ACE demonstrates how to use the Presence Graph API endpoints (beta) to set and retrieve a presence status message for a user. Set/update a user’s presence – their availability and a message to viewers. Sample contains wide range of capabilities.

This PnP Community demo is taken from the Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Bi-weekly sync call recorded on March 23, 2023.

Demo Presenter
β€’ Yves Habersaat (Sword Group) | @yhabersaat

Supporting materials
β€’ Sample - BasicCard-StatusMessage | https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-aces/tree/main/samples/BasicCard-StatusMessage
β€’ Tool – Graph Explorer | aka.ms/ge

Learn more
β€’ Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community - http://aka.ms/community/home
  • 1 participant
  • 10 minutes
session
presence
client
api
interface
users
microsoft
v1
query
foreign
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19 Apr 2023

In this 16-minute developer-focused demo, Davide Mauri and Paolo Pialorsi integrate a ToDo list into an existing application without writing any code with an open-source tool Microsoft just released called Data API Builder for Azure Database. For a new/existing database, specify a table, and let tool create a REST API or GraphQL endpoint that’s then consumed by your application – an ACE in this case! Step through ACE code for managing security and tasks.

This PnP Community demo is taken from the Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Bi-weekly sync call recorded on March 23, 2023.

Demo Presenters
β€’ Davide Mauri (Microsoft) | @mauridb
β€’ Paolo Pialorsi (PiaSys) | @PaoloPia

Supporting materials
β€’ Tool - Data API builder for Azure Databases | https://mcr.microsoft.com/product/azure-databases/data-api-builder/about
β€’ Repo - data-api-builder | aka.ms/dab
β€’ Demo - Data API builder and Microsoft 365 | https://github.com/yorek/dab-microsoft365-demo
β€’ Builder - ace-dab-spfx (SPFx consuming DAB Demo) | https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-aces/tree/main/scenarios/ace-data-api-builder/spfx

Learn more
β€’ Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community - http://aka.ms/community/home
  • 2 participants
  • 16 minutes
datapia
database
demo
microsoft
sharepointing
azure
apis
hosted
interface
execute
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28 Mar 2023

In this 15-minute developer focused demo, Luca Bandinelli and Alex Terentiev deliver a directional update on SPFx and extensibility platform for Microsoft 365. SPFx v1.17 capabilities reviewed include: Use TeamsJS SDK v2.9.1, OS variable now in serve.json configuration, web part TopActions, Sync to Teams, Action handler for ACE, focus parameters in ACE quick view, and Adaptive Cards v1.5 schema support. Beyond v1.17 capabilities also described.

This PnP Community demo is taken from the weekly Microsoft 365 Platform Community call recorded on March 28, 2023.

Demo Presenters
β€’ Luca Bandinelli (Microsoft)
β€’ Alex Terentiev (Microsoft) | @alexaterentiev

Supporting materials
β€’ Article – Announcing SharePoint Framework 1.17 release candidate - Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) | @vesajuvonen

Learn more
β€’ Microsoft 365 Unified Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 Platform Community - http://aka.ms/community/home
  • 2 participants
  • 15 minutes
sharepoint
connections
framework
access
virtual
microsoft
host
viva
applications
teamstab
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7 Mar 2023

Ever wondered how long it takes to setup and launch Viva Connections? In this video we’ll demonstrate the setup & launch of Viva Connections in under 5 minutes! The new version of Viva Connections doesn’t require the setup of homesite and it comes with a set of out-of-the-box dashboard cards. These improvements make it extremely easy to setup Viva Connections.

Notice that the 5 min demonstration focuses on the technical deployment and does not take into account planning and change management required for rolling out the new features and capabilities in mid-sized or larger companies.

✨ Demo Presenter
β€’ Anshuman Gaur (Microsoft) | @_AnshumanGaur

πŸ“ Learn more
β€’ More options coming soon for the Viva Connections desktop experience - Microsoft Community Hub - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-viva-blog/more-options-coming-soon-for-the-viva-connections-desktop/ba-p/3644419
β€’ Operator: Customize and edit the Viva Connections home experience | Microsoft Learn - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/edit-viva-home
β€’ End user: See what you can do in the Viva Connections desktop experience β€’ Microsoft Support - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/see-what-you-can-do-in-the-viva-connections-desktop-experience-e1f53887-f3cc-4ec4-bdbd-2e2f673089b6
β€’ Content set: Overview: Viva Connections | Microsoft Learn - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/viva-connections-overview

πŸ’‘ Learn more about the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Sample gallery - https://aka.ms/community/samples
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community in YouTube - https://aka.ms/community/videos
β€’ Microsoft 365 & Power Platform - http://aka.ms/community/home

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  • 1 participant
  • 7 minutes
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admin
viewer
manage
connections
workflows
access
users
dashboard
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