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Turn Outlook in an Adaptive Card (ACE) on your Viva dashboard and supercharge your intranet
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Turn Outlook in an Adaptive Card (ACE) on your Viva dashboard and supercharge your intranet
With adenin, you can seamlessly integrate Outlook Cards into your Viva Connections dashboard. Take advantage of Adaptive Cards for Outlook (ACE), creating a single view for all your data in the most user-friendly way possible.
Benefits of integrating Outlook Cards into your Viva Connections dashboard with adenin:
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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
Outlook provides the following 6 data sources:
By using the Outlook app for Viva Connections you get the following features:
These 4 Outlook Cards can be added to your Viva Connections instance straight away:
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 Outlook) incurs usage charges according to your plan. See the pricing page for details →
adenin’s Viva Connections connector is a popular choice for Finance & Accounting, Human Resources and Internal Comms teams at small to large organizations. The data sources that are built into Outlook (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 Outlook and then loads your data into an Adaptive Card layout that, in turn, will be embedded into Viva Connections.
No, the integration is designed to help busy managers stay on top of their various workplace applications, where Outlook 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 Outlook 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 Outlook 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.
We use the secure OAuth standard which means you authorize adenin accessing your Outlook 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.
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With adenin you can easily integrate any business app into Viva Connections
Click the Add button below
Add Outlook to adeninEither log in or create your free adenin account. Then you will be directed to your personal dashboard where the installation of your Outlook integration will start.
Follow the steps in the modal by clicking Next including selecting your data source, authorizing your Outlook 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 Outlook API.
Outlook
Your Card will now appear on your adenin dashboard.
Modify or embed your Outlook 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 Outlook 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
adenin’s Viva Connections integration isn't just limited to Calendar applications, such as Outlook. Truly transform your Viva Connections experience by simply browsing our App Directory for all your other work tools.
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