We’re excited to announce a range of new capabilities for Viva Connections designed to bring your Viva Connections experiences into the flow of work, add customization to the Spotlight feature, understand how users are engaging with the app and bring new integrations into dashboard cards. Here’s what’s new:

New ways to stay connected

Viva Connections is all about connecting you to the things you need, and now, you can get Desktop Notifications to ensure you don’t miss the latest news and announcements. And updated notification settings and performance improvements give you additional control on what you see, faster loading, tablet personalization, and helpful tools like inline authoring.

To better connect your employees to the resources they need most, we’ve recently rolled out the ability to import global navigation items into the Viva Connections Resources tab.

We’ve also released Viva Connections on the web that brings a dynamic, beautiful app experience directly into the browser.

Communicating through the employee app
The new customizable Spotlight offers communicators a sleek, above-the-fold section to highlight key news. Up to eleven pieces of news can be added to the Spotlight carousel for announcements and campaigns that need extra emphasis and durability.

Highlight key news and campaigns with Spotlight
Highlight key news and campaigns with Spotlight
New communication features also enable Regional Announcements, which provides additional attribute-based targeting based on job, title, and location. This is specifically geared for reaching Frontline Workers (FLWs) working in different regions, branches, stores, or departments by using filtering.

Filter your audience based on FLW attributes like location, department, and job title.

Learn more about how to set up regional filtering and using FLW announcements. Note this feature requires Frontline licensing.

Analytics
Admins can now understand how and when users engage with components of the Viva Connections experience. You can see data on overall traffic, usage, and engagement across each of your organization’s Connections experiences. Learn more about how to access usage data here.

A view of analytics in Viva Connections

Cards
Dashboard cards in Viva Connections are the building blocks to a modern employee experience. A few months ago, we previewed a few cards for frontline workers which are now available.

Pulse Card – The Viva Pulse card in Viva Connections allows you to create Pulse survey (s) via the dashboard, giving employees a quick and targeted way to share feedback and participate in workplace surveys. Once the survey is complete, the owner can view the response rate right on the card.

Assigned Tasks Card

The Assigned Tasks card automatically displays information to users about their assigned tasks to. This information is retrieved from the Tasks app in Teams and enables users to quickly take action and accomplish tasks right from their dashboard.

OneDrive Card update
This new card allows organizations to add a OneDrive Files Card to the Viva Connections dashboard, showing recently accessed, shared, or favorite files. This card is now generally available and requires no action for setup.

Learn more about our Viva Connections dashboard cards in this blog.

We’re excited about the future of Viva Connections as more and more enterprises and frontline workers have built this app into their daily and weekly habits. We’ll have more updates to share soon — stay tuned!

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