Airtable and Viva Connections integration

Unleash the full potential of your business data with adenin’s seamless integration between Airtable and Viva Connections. Our SaaS app adenin, pulls in API data from your Airtable 'app' and integrates it beautifully into your Viva Connections 'channel', giving you an effortless way to view and interact with your data. With the magic of Adaptive Cards and ACE (Adaptive Card Extensions), you can now transform your data into interactive, dynamic cards that fit right into your Viva Connections dashboard.

Features:

Adaptive Cards: Turn your Airtable data into interactive cards that can be embedded directly in your Viva Connections dashboard. ACE (Adaptive Card Extensions) make it easy to create and customize your cards.
Integrated Data: All your important Airtable data presented in one place, no need for constant app-switching.
Developer-Friendly: It's a cinch to set up, with plenty of flexibility for developers to adapt and extend.

Benefits:

Effortless Integration: Sync up your Airtable and Viva Connections effortlessly with adenin.
Boosted Productivity: No more wasting time searching for crucial data - it's all right there on your dashboard.
Enhanced Collaboration: Share and collaborate on data with your team directly within Viva Connections.
Unleashed Power: Unleash the power of Adaptive Cards and ACE, creating a truly dynamic, interactive experience.

Ready to experience the power of Adaptive Cards, ACE, and adenin? Start your free adenin account today and bring your data to life in Viva Connections.

About adenin’s Viva Connections channel

With the Viva Connections dashboard you have the ability to turn apps from the App Directory into Adaptive Card extensions. These Cards present employees their data in bite-sized snippets and can be expanded to show more details.Use ACE Adaptive Card... Read more

Alternative intranet to Viva Connections

SharePoint

Microsoft Teams

Frequently asked questions about Viva Connections Airtable app (FAQ)

What data sources are available for Airtable?

Airtable provides the following 4 data sources:

List Bases

Returns the list of bases the API key can access in the order they appear on the user's home screen.

List Records

List Records in table. Returned records do not include any fields with empty values. You can filter, sort, and format the results with the parameters.

List Tables

Returns the schema of the tables in the specified base.

Retrieve a record

Retrieve a record in a table. Any empty fields (e.g. [], or false) in the record will not be returned.

What features does the Viva Connections integration offer?

By using the Airtable app for Viva Connections you get the following features:

Use apps within

Get access to all App Directory apps within Viva Connections without any additional setup

Can embed Cards

Custom Cards made with Adenin's drag-and-drop Card designer can be embedded into the Viva Connections experience

Provides dashboards

Create dashboard with Airtable data along with other apps from the the App Directory

Is the Viva Connections integration free?

Yes, Viva Connections is one of the channels built-in into adenin, a platform that integrates all kinds of work apps into a personal dashboard as well as your other work applications, such as intranets or chatbots. Bear in mind that, even though channels such as Viva Connections are free, the use of adenin (including using data from Airtable) incurs usage charges according to your plan. See the pricing page for details →

Who is the Viva Connections integration for?

adenin’s Viva Connections connector is a popular choice for IT, Marketing and Sales teams at small to large organizations. The data sources that are built into Airtable (see above) are incredibly simple to integrate into Viva Connections and don't require any technical know-how. The adenin platform completely handles authenticating with Airtable and then loads your data into an Adaptive Card layout that, in turn, will be embedded into Viva Connections.

Do I have to be a developer to use the Viva Connections integration with Airtable?

No, the integration is designed to help busy managers stay on top of their various workplace applications, where Airtable is just one of many examples (see others). As such, we designed many tools that reduce the amount of coding expected of users: Starting with the Airtable integration, which you can set up yourself in just a few, completely code-free, steps (see instructions).

Then with the built-in Card designer we automatically generate a layout from your Airtable data. You could tweak this further in the low-code designer, either yourself if you have some HTML-related skills, or with a little help from us – just reach out to one of the team.

Lastly, there will be the Viva Connections integration which is self-explanatory to install. Just check the installation instructions section for more details.

How does adenin ensure my Airtable data is safely delivered to Viva Connections?

We use the secure OAuth standard which means you authorize adenin accessing your Airtable data and in turn authorize us to share this data with Viva Connections. Both of these authorizations can be revoked by you at any point through the Linked accounts menu (requires user account). No data is ever stored on adenin servers, instead it is directly sent to the client (in this case Viva Connections) who will treat it in accordance with their privacy policy. Please also check out our Privacy Policy for more details.

Helping organizations connecting their data

We're always delighted to hear from users – especially if the reviews are this glowing

"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shows a timeline of upcoming events"

Our team needed a straight forward way to see upcoming sales calls in SharePoint. This web part lets you show users their own calendars, as well as shared ones and was just the ticket. During installation we got an error message, which the support addressed.

— Sandra (11/03/2024) Microsoft AppSource

"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Digital Chatbots"

What do you like best about the product?
It provides reminders from my google calendar. I can customise my board to access all my daily essentials in one place. Such as google drive, emails, Jira updates, and more. It has made my life much easier. I do not have to open every single app separately to find messages.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a bit pricey. The prices could be lower.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Saving time and energy by providing all updates in one place. Connected to several apps such as Slack, gmail, drive, sheets, etc.

— Kriti B. (10/15/2024) G2 Crowd

"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Simple widget"

This simply reads in your RSS feeds and makes it into a web part, for example to share your company blog. The web part's look can be fully adjusted, but there is a small monthly fee for this service (outside of a small monthly allowance).

— Kate Wilkinson (09/20/2024) Microsoft AppSource

"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Viva Connections"

We connected Workday to our Viva Connections dashboard to show users their PTO balances and offer a convenient way to request time off. The support was very helpful to go through an internal Infosec approval which added about 6 weeks to be able to roll it out. But the result is perfect!

— Emilia Barakat (09/22/2024) Microsoft AppSource

"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Show conversations from non-Teams locations"

Through a merger we had some locations that were used to Slack, and with this web part we could easily import their recent conversations into our SharePoint pages which makes it easier for management to monitor our new stores.

— Agnes Robertson (10/17/2024) Microsoft AppSource

"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The app store Viva was meant to have"

Despite a lot of hype around Viva dashboard we always held back rolling it out as there was just not a lot of apps available for it, we use ServiceNow, Salesforce and Workday for example; none of which are available in App Source. The only way really was to make up a custom ACE that's pretty much just a fancier bookmark to link out to each portal. So I was stunned to see these 3 apps being available through this Viva app. SNOW took help from their support team get started, and we hit one or two roadblocks submitting requests to Workday, etc. so it's not perfect but after a couple of support sessions we were able to put together a Viva homepage that works great for users and, to my eye, really delivers on the vision Microsoft promised with Viva being the central tab in Teams + SharePoint. So this app = must have

— Verified user (07/27/2024) Microsoft AppSource

"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ App store for web parts"

I understand this is a company trying to create a marketplace of apps for SharePoint web parts which is a cool idea. It generates a list from the connected app's API which you can then refine. The selection could be a lot bigger, but for the apps I wanted and they had, it worked really well.

— Verified user (03/05/2024) Microsoft AppSource

Install Airtable integration for Viva Connections

With adenin you can easily integrate any business app into Viva Connections

1. Add Airtable to adenin
2. Integrate adenin into Viva Connections

Click the Add button below
Add Airtable to adenin
Either log in or create your free adenin account. Then you will be directed to your personal dashboard where the installation of your Airtable integration will start.
Follow the steps in the modal by clicking Next including selecting your data source, authorizing your Airtable account and more attributes (if they are required).
At the end click Finish and our built-in smart technology generates a Card with the live data it received from the Airtable API.
Airtable
Your Card will now appear on your adenin dashboard.
Modify or embed your Airtable Adaptive Card from the ··· button in the top right-hand corner of your card:
Click Edit in Designer to open the Card’s layout in the low-code Adaptive Card designer.
By clicking Share you can see options for embedding your Card into intranet and chatbot channels. For example, your Airtable works as a SharePoint web part, or with chatbots such as Microsoft Teams.

To begin, add the adenin Viva Connections integration to your Viva Connections account.

Adenin's platform is presented in SharePoint as the App integrations by adenin package. It's easy to install it and will give you access to all the App Directory apps and the Card designer.

Click the Install now button above, which will open the App integrations app on Microsoft App Source.
Sometimes, the installation from the App Source website can prove tricky. An easier way can be to instead search for the app on the SharePoint App Store, however there isn't a direct link to it so we'll explain how to manually find it
Go to the More features page in the SharePoint admin center and select Open under Apps
On the Manage apps page, select SharePoint Store in the left pane.
Search for App integrations by adenin and there select Add to Apps site
During the installation, select to Enable this app and add it to all sites, then press Add
After the installation you will be asked to Approve access so this app works as designed which you should follow by clicking on Go to API Access Page
There select the request for the User.Read scope and then press Approve. If there's nothing showing under Pending requests, then another SharePoint app has been granted this same permission in the past (it only needs approval once for all your SharePoint apps). Conversely, the User.Read scope could show as being requested by another app, in which case this app has made the request at an earlier install, and it never got approved.
Now go to your Dashboard, usually located at <your-sharepoint-domain>/SitePages/Dashboard.aspx, and add a new App integrations Card
Then select the Edit icon and select Embed an existing Card
Now copy your Card Share URL and paste it in the Viva Card
Optionally, you can edit your Card's Quick or Card View by clicking Edit in Designer or Edit the Quick View

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