Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 + Yammer

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 + Yammer

 

Purpose: The purpose of this document is to illustrate how to integrate Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Yammer.

 

Challenge: The world moves fast. Change is the new constant. In the fast moving world there’s a need for the solution that helps you and your company stay on top of it all. Get connected to the right people, share information across teams and organize around projects so you can go further – faster. Collaborate securely across departments, geographies, content and business applications.

 

Solution: The solution is Yammer. Yammer is a leading enterprise social network used by many companies worldwide to get work done smarter and faster.

 

Scenario

 

In this scenario we’ll configure Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Role Center to display Yammer feed

 

Walkthrough

 

Yammer: https://www.yammer.com

 

This is how my Yammer landing page looks like

 

 

Please note that in Apps section (… > Apps) you can find a reference to Yammer Embed App which allows you to embed a Yammer feed to any web page using intuitive JavaScript code

 

 

Yammer Embed: Bring social into existing business applications.

 

Yammer Embed delivers Yammer feeds to existing business applications, such as the company intranet, CRM tools or content management systems. With Yammer Embed, you can now view, post and reply to messages in the context of your work.

 

Please see the benefits of using Yammer Embed App:

 

Increased Flexibility: Add Yammer's social functionality to existing applications using simple JavaScript embed code

 

Uninterrupted Work Flow: Have dynamic team discussions in the context of the projects you're working on, without disrupting natural work flows

 

Accelerated Content Discovery: Enable other members of the company to discover and participate in your conversations in real-time, even if they are not using the same application

 

Mobile Access: Contribute to conversations happening inside other applications from mobile devices

A note about compatibility: Yammer Embed is compatible with any HTML and JavaScript-based business system that supports extensibility. Yammer Embed dynamically adjusts in size and design based on the amount of space provided within an application.

 

Yammer Embed App comes with a manual with detailed instructions. For example, this is how my JavaScript code looks like 

 

Code

 

<script data-app-id="hyB2pTvrL36Y50py8EWj6A" src="https://assets.yammer.com/platform/yam.js"></script> <script> yam.connect.embedFeed( { container: '#embedded-feed' , network: 'microsoft.com' // network permalink }); </script> <div id="embedded-feed"></div>

 

Please note that I’m using a microsoft.com network in my example: https://www.yammer.com/microsoft.com/

 

Now once we wrote the code and before we embed it into Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Role Center we’ll save the code in text file

 

File (Save As yam.txt)

 

This saved file we’ll upload to Shared Documents on our SharePoint site to be able to reference it later

 

For example, this is where I uploaded this file to on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Demo VM: http://dynamicsax.contoso.com/sites/DynamicsAx/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx

 

Shared Documents

 

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Now we can see uploaded yam.txt file to Shared Documents in SharePoint site. The URL we’ll use to reference this file will be: http://dynamicsax.contoso.com/sites/DynamicsAx/Shared%20Documents/yam.txt

 

Now it’s time to embed JavaScript code into Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Role Center using Content Editor web part

 

Edit Page: Content Editor

 

 

In the Content Link we’ll specify the URL for yam.txt file which we uploaded to Shared Documents in SharePoint site

 

 

The URL looks like the following in Text Editor

 

 

Then we’ll do some more make-up such as specifying web part Title, etc.

 

 

And finally we’ll have Yammer feed embedded into Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Role Center

 

Edit Page

 

 

After you Log in you will be able to see the result

 

 

Result in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Role Center

 

 

Summary: This document describes how integrate Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Yammer by displaying Yammer feed in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Role Center. Start using Yammer today to realize the following business benefits: https://about.yammer.com/business-benefits

 

Drive Productivity through Team Collaboration: Increased sales. Better customer service. More effective processes. When your team works together, amazing things happen. Yammer improves team collaboration to help you share ideas, spur creativity and make decisions more quickly.

 

Engage Every Employee: An engaged workforce means good things for business: higher productivity, higher profitability and lower turnover. Yammer increases employee engagement so that every team member has a voice – and the tools and information to do more.

 

Connect Your Organization: Welcome to a new kind of intranet. It’s social, easy to use and brings employees and applications together in a connected organization. Like traditional intranets, Yammer is a knowledge hub for enterprises – and so much more.

 

Boost Business Agility: Innovate new products and adapt quickly to market changes. Yammer drives business agility through open communication to help your company stay one step ahead.

 

Please learn more about Yammer here: https://www.yammer.com

 

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, Yammer, Social, Collaboration.

 

Note: This document is intended for information purposes only, presented as it is with no warranties from the author. This document may be updated with more content to better outline the issues and describe the solutions.

 

Author: Alex Anikiev, PhD, MCP