Connect Social media to digital displays with Valotalive Viva Engage App.
Valotalive Viva Engage App main features
✔ Secure Microsoft Entra ID authentication (previously known as Azure AD authentication)
✔ Support for text, images, GIFs and videos
✔ Choose a specific Community group to follow
✔ Select message types to follow
Valotalive integrates with Microsoft Viva Engage helping you to drive engagement by displaying your company's Announcements, Praises, Discussions and Questions for all employee groups.
MS Viva Engage app - Activate and use
Easiest way for activating a content App is from Valotalive Dashboard. Just click the icon of the content you wish to activate and proceed. More detailed info of the first steps can be found here:
Settings on the Apps' Configuration tab
Authenticate Valotalive Viva Engage with MS OAuth2
This authorization gives Valotalive the permission to view and read posts labeled as Announcements, Praises, Discussions and Questions from a specific Viva Engage Community and show the main posts on the Valotalive Digital displays.If you run into problems when trying to authorize please check this article:
Viva Engage community
Select which Viva Engage community you want to follow.
First Valotalive fetches community groups You belong to.
Choose + Load all groups if the community you are looking for is not on the drop-down list
Message types to follow
Select the type of messages you wish to publish to digital screens.
SHOW ADVANCED
Number of latest posts to follow
How many of the latest posts should be shown.Large number tend to hide the latest posts.
Posts must be newer than
Enter maximum age of the posts in days
Should next and previous posts be visible
Yes setting will show a small portion of the newer and older posts on screen. Newer posts will appear on top of the message shown and older posts below the message shown.
Emphasize new posts
Emphasize messages that have been posted within a day if there are any.
Seconds per article
How many seconds each message is shown on it's turn.Best practice is 10-20 seconds per one post.
Posts in one show cycle
How many posts are shown on one (1) show cycle.Use HTML formatting from posts
Yes is the recommended option for visually optimal results.
Rename the App
You can rename the app at any time by clicking the name on top of the page:
The best practice is to name the App to match the selected data source.
In here we would you the name of the group and the type of posts:
Complete by adding the app to a flow or directly to a display.
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