There are a
couple of really good post from Richard Dizerega, Elio Struyf, Mikael Svenson and Waldek Mastykarz. But everyone is talking about dev.
stuff or end-user perspective.
In this
article I will show the idea of Delve, the Graph and how it is working and what
can be done from an IT-Pro / Administrator perspective.
Basics
We can enable
or disable Delve and control access to the Office graph in SharePoint Online
administration. To do this we had to navigate to Admin > SharePoint >
Settings. Under Office graph, select one of the following options:
-
Don’t
allow access to the Office graph
-
Allow
access to the Office graph
Delve can
also be disabled or enabled per user. To do this the user must go to Office 365
> Delve > Delve settings.
To store
this setting we have a new property in User Profile Store: OfficeGraphEnabled.
The
OfficeGraphEnabled property is only used when a user actively turns off Delve
for themselves.
The
property also results in a crawled and managed property which can be used in
Search.
So the
Administrator can query that property in Search to find out all people within
his organization who turned off Delve.
This can be
useful to get an overview about Delve usage in you organization.
We have
several other properties in the User Profile service used by Delve.
·
SPS-UserType
·
SPS-HideFromAddressLists
·
SPS-RecipientTypeDetails
The SPS-
properties are there to help the Office graph to determine if user in Exchange
Online is a non-person entity such as a meeting room.
Users
aren’t able to set these properties directly in their SharePoint Online
profiles.
Working with Delve for
IT-Pro´s and Admin
From IT-Pro
& Administrator perspective Delve is a kind of service we have to write
code to tweak it. Actually there are no out-of-the-box WebParts etc. we can use
to work with Delve.
But we have
a bunch of preconfigured code snippets, examples, SharePoint Apps and tools
which can be very useful also for Admins and IT-Pros.
SharePoint 2013 Search
Query Tool
The SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool
support with version 2.2 also GQL (Graph Query Language). For more details
about GQL follow this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/query-Office-graph-using-gql-with-search-rest-api
Office graph queries within
your SharePoint search center
Elio Struyf
did a great job with his code sample to use SharePoint search center to
visualize Graph Queries.
All you
need is a Script WebPart, a Search Box WebPart and a Search Result Webpart. The
script is overriding the default Srch.U.fillKeywordQuery function, manipulating some
parameters and doing a call to the original fillKeywordQuery function. The scripts and details
can be found here: http://www.eliostruyf.com/office-graph-search-queries-sharepoint-search-center/
The result
looks like this:
We can use
this script to fire queries against the Graph. Modifying the “Me or Actor ID”
field give us an option to impersonate the query. The Graph always respects
your privacy so we cannot see private object from another person. Details see
here: Privacy in
Delve and Office Graph
But we can
see all public objects for a given Actor ID to verify our security concept
works well.
In my
example I fire the query as user “Oliver Hardy”:
SharePoint Apps around Delve
In the
SharePoint App store we can find a bunch of useful Apps around Delve and the
Graph. Most of them are from Mavention / my MVP colleague Waldek Mastykarz. To
test Delve and work with the Graph the most useful is the Office
Graph Query Tester
This app
showes the query which is used to get a result. This query can then
be used and modified in the SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool.
SharePoint 2013 Search API Results Webpart
I have a
codeplex project for an experimental SharePoint 2013 Search API
Results Webpart. This WebPart is visualizing the JSON result comming from search service as a simple list. Modifying
the query in the script you can use this script to show Graph results where
ever you have to.
Here I use
the script in a Script WebPart to visualize the following query: ACTOR(ME)
This can be
useful to show Graph results as part of you intranet landing page which is
maybe not SharePoint etc.
Further information and
events
·
IT-Unity
also hosts a survey about delve: First Impressions
of Office Delve
·
and
there is a upcoming webinar series about Delbe at IT-Unity homepage: http://www.itunity.com
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