How to Post SharePoint document on Yammer?

To post SharePoint document on Yammer, most of the people copy the link of document and then paste it in the Yammer update text box.

There is another easier way to post the document directly from your SharePoint document library. All you have to do is:

1. Select the document from document library and click on 3 dots for edit.
2. You will see an option to Post the document as shown below
3. Once you click on Post, it opens a popup where you can choose a group if you want
4. Then, simply click on post

Yammer Design options don't work

If you are network admin on Yammer, you would have been asked by users to change the look and feel of a Yammer page. One such requirement was given to me.

The request was to put a company logo and image at the top of the Yammer page. Ideas seems very simple. You go to network admin section where you will see and option called design. Within this section, you can see:

1. Select Network Colors
2. Customize Network logo
3. Customize network masthead
4. Customize logo for emails

It allows you to choose colors and pictures on the page. However after saving the customizations, you don't see any change on the yammer page. It seems that Microsoft has deprecated this functionality and apart from changing the logo for emails , other options don't work.

In case your network is slow or you may see the chosen logo and masthead momentarily before Office 365 suite covers it up. So in short, Yammer design options don't work. 

Want to create a note in Yammer?

You can use 'Notes' with content such as images and files with additional information. When you are creating a note you can use the button to mention a colleague, the button to link to a web page, the button to link to a document or image in Yammer or the button to link to an existing note. Using the buttons to edit, email or delete a 'note', you can modify the already created note. Given below are the steps to create a new 'Note':

• On your SharePoint page, click on Yammer from the bar on the top and enter your password if required
• Or you can open the Yammer link directly on your browser
• Click on the (...) ellipses, present at the top right of the page adjacent to the search box
• Choose Files from the drop down
• Click on create 'Note' present on the right of the tabs
• First enter the title of the note
• Then you can enter in the information for your note in the Rich text editor
• When you are done click on Publish

Want to create a new group?

Groups can be used to lead discussions and share content relevant to a specific business area or a social network of colleagues. Groups are useful in the business to conversing with like-minded colleagues that operate within a specific business area such as a department, business process or region. Groups can be social as well, a gathering for a community of colleagues that partake in activities outside of work. Yammer can be used to connect with third parties from outside your business. With their Yammer accounts they can access external groups that you create. These external groups are great for sharing information with other businesses you work with, without them seeing content and updates from internal groups. To set up a new group, follow these steps:

• From SharePoint, click on Yammer from the suite bar and enter your password if required
• At the top right of the page near the search box, click on the (...) ellipses
• From the drop down, select Group
• At the top right of the page, click on Create New Group
• Choose Internal Group
• Under Group Name enter a name for the new group
• Under Group Members type in the names of colleagues who are to be invited to the group
• Choose whether the group is public or private
• Click on Create Group

How to Follow a group in Yammer?

Yammer groups act as a spearhead for keeping conversations and content relevant to a topic area. You can join many topics to keep track of events and discussions from different areas of your business. If you find that there is no group for a topic area you are interested in you can create a new group. Users will then join these groups to contribute and follow this business area. To join a group, follow these steps:

• From SharePoint, click on Yammer from the suite bar and enter your password if required
• At the top right of the page near the search box, click on the (...) ellipses
• From the drop down, select Group
• Use the tabs to locate the group you want to follow
• Hover your mouse over a group tile and click Join

How to follow a Colleague in Yammer?

Staying up to date with your colleagues in Yammer will help you stay up to date with their activities and share information with them. You can also easily access colleagues that you have added in the Online Now pop up to allow you to instantly start communicating with these colleagues:

• From SharePoint, click on Yammer from the suite bar and enter your password if required
• At the top right of the page near the search box, click on the (...) ellipses
• From the drop down, select People
• Using the filters, navigate to the colleague you are not currently following
• Click on the Follow button

 

What is Yammer Search?

You can use search in Yammer to locate files, images, conversations, notes and other updates using keywords. Search results are displayed on a new page with contextual tabs splitting different types of content up such as files, conversations etc. Advanced search appears on the search results page to further refine content based on groups, what is in your inbox or has been created between specific dates. To conduct a search, follow these steps:

• From SharePoint, click on Yammer from the suite bar and enter your password if required
• At the top right of a page click on the Search box
• Type the keyword you wish to search for and press Enter
• Your search results are displayed