FAQ - Employee Directory

  1. Why I don’t see the skype for business status of my colleague?
    • You have to open application with internet explore browser and trust the domain, then you can able to see your colleague lync presence.
    • Note: SharePoint online lync presence will work only in IE browser.
  2. How to exclude employee based on domain like domaina.com, domainb.com?
    • Go to System Settings
    • You can remove/hide employees based on domains in Exclude Users as well as through Exclude Domains column.
    • Note: Only site administrator has the right to access.
  3. Why I don’t see the setting buttons?
    • only site collection administrator has the right access to settings part, so it wont be visible to all users.
  4. How to exclude employee with certain domain?
    • Go to System Settings
    • You can hide employees with certain domains in Exclude Domains column.
  5. How to restrict listing view for the employee?
    • Go to System Settings
    • You can restrict listing view of a particular employee from Exclude Users or even from Exclude Domains column.
    • Note: Only site administrator has the right to access.
  6. How to exclude employee from the list?
    • Go to System Settings
    • You can hide employees from list using employee name or employee email id in Exclude Users column or Exclude Domains column.
    • Note: Only site administrator has the right to access.
  7. Why I don’t see upload image link?
    • Only site collection administrator or current logged user having account with that site collection has the right to upload the image.
  8. Can I again include excluded employee to view?
    • Yes. You can include hided employee with the following instructions below:
    • Go to Settings
    • Click on the Excluded Users List.
    • Select the employee to again include hided employee to view and click on Enable button.
    • Note: Only site collection administrator has the right access to settings page.
  9. Can i forcefully sync data from tenant?
    • Yes. You can forcefully sync data from tenant with the following instructions below:
    • After logging into application, please click on gear icon on the top right corner of the screen.
    • Click on the Sync Now button.
    • Once data synchronization is done it will open screen with updated data
    • Note: Only site collection administrator has the right access to settings page.
  10. Can admin upload image of any employee?
    • Yes. Admin has to follow this instructions below:
    • Click on the Employee icon. An employee details pop-up will appear.
    • Click on Upload image option to upload an image of the employee.
  11. How to grant permission to the users as admin ?
    • After installing the application, click on Setting’s gear icon top right corner of the home page.
    • Scroll down to settings popup, last option you can find dropdown list for all users called “Update User Roles & Permissions”. Just search the name of user, and “Update Role” for them
    • In the dropdown menu you can select either Admin or User.
  12. What changes employee can do in their profile details?
    • An What changes employee can do in their profile details?
    • Click on the Employee icon. An employee details pop-up will appear.
    • Click on Update Profile option to update their profile details of an employee.
    • They can update their profile details like Location, About me, Skills, Projects & Hobbies.
  13. How to change theme color in Employee Directory Plus application?
    • After logging into application, please click on ” gear ” icon on the top right corner of the screen.
    • In settings, choose the Pre-defined Themes or you can define your Custom Themes.
  14. Can I apply one or more filter i.e all employees from location i.e Europe and further department ‘Sales and Marketing’ to narrow down the search?
    • Yes. You can apply more than one filters to narrow down the search.
  15. Where to update mobile phone, work phone and office location in AD ?
    • Work phone is mapped with telephone no.
    • Mobile phone is mapped with mobile
    • Office is mapped with office field in AD
  16. How to update users images in AD ?
    • Below PS script we can update image in AD
    • $photo = [byte[]](Get–Content C:\pictures\oddvar.jpg –Encoding byte) Set–ADUser oddvar -Replace @{thumbnailPhoto=$photo}
  17. How / where to update user information in Office365, i.e; mobile phone, work phone & office ?
    • Follow below steps:
    • Goto Office 365 Admin panel, click on Active Users
    • Edit contact information for selected User
  18.  Where can the user update employee images in Office365 ?
    • Follow below steps:
    • Goto Office 365 Admin panel, click on Active Users
    • Click on Upload for selected User and can update the employee’s image.

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