Delve
Delve helps you discover the information that's likely to be most interesting to you right now - across Office 365. Find information about people - and through people - and help others find you.
You don't have to remember the title of a document or where it's stored. Delve shows you documents no matter where they're stored in OneDrive for Business or SharePoint in Office 365.
Delve never changes any permissions, so you'll only see documents that you already have access to. Other people will not see your private documents. Learn more about privacy.
-
Click someone’s name or picture anywhere in Delve to see documents they’re working on or to learn more about them.
-
When you find a document you’re interested in, add it as a favorite or to a board to easily get back to it later.
-
Search for people, documents, or boards.
Features View and edit your profile
The profile page in Delve makes it easy for you to update your profile information, and for others to find and connect with you. With the new profile page in Delve, you can also quickly get back to documents you've worked on recently, or go to other people's profile pages to see what they're up to.
You can go to your profile page by selecting Me from the left-hand menu. To change your information, choose Edit profile.
Connect and collaborate
You and everyone else in your organization have your own profile page in Delve. Use the profile pages to find information about people - and through people - and to help others find you. You can also connect with others directly from their profile page.
On your own page, you can quickly get back to documents you've worked on recently, go to other people's pages to see what they're up to, and update your personal information.
To go to your profile page, click Me in the left pane, or click your name or picture anywhere in Delve.
Get back to your recent documents
This section shows documents you've recently authored or modified, and that are stored in OneDrive for Business or SharePoint. Click a document to open it, or click See all to see more documents.
Click a person to see what they're working on
In this section, you see some of the people you work with, or people you're connected to in the organization. Click a person to go to their profile page, or click See all to see more people.
Discover documents from people around you
This section shows a selection of popular documents from people around you. The selection of documents changes over time, and is based on what the people you work with have worked on or read. Click a document to open it, or click See all to see more documents.
If you find something you want to keep for later, add the document to your favorites or to a board.
Group and share documents
In Delve, you can use boards to group and share related documents. You can, for example, create a board to collect all project documents for your team. Boards make it easy to collect and discover content, and they are easy to share with others, too.
You can also keep track of documents in Delve by adding them to your Favorites. If you find a document you want to save for later, click the icon in the lower left corner to add it to your favorites.
Boards are open to everyone in your organization, and you can see, add documents to, or remove documents from any board in Delve. If a board has documents that you don't have access to, those documents will not show up for you.
Share a board with others
To send a link to a board through email, click Send a link at the top of the board. Type in the email address, change the message if you want, and send.
Remove a document from a board
Click the board icon in the bottom left corner on a content card. In the dialog box that opens, click the X for the board you want to remove the card from.
Keep track of your favorite documents
To add a document to your Favorites, click the icon in the lower left corner of the card.
Share a document with others through email
To send a link to a document through email, click the three dots in the lower right corner on the content card and then Send a link. Type in the email address, change the message if you want, and send.
Give other people access to your document
To share a document with others from within Delve, click the three dots in the lower right corner on the content card, then Who can see this?, and then click Invite people.
Work with others on documents in Delve
When you open documents in Office Online, your colleagues can open them at the same time. That means you don’t have to wait for someone to finish adding information to a document before you can enter yours.
As you see each other’s updates you can discuss and share ideas, resulting in a document that’s truly a team effort
Work together on documents by using Yammer
You can post documents to Yammer from Delve. You can also talk about the document on Yammer, or view existing conversations.
Find people and information
Discover new information on your Home page, get back to your own documents on your profile page (Me), and find information about other people on their profile pages. You can also find back to documents in Favorites or find documents through boards.
The Get back to your recent documents section shows the documents you've recently authored or modified, and that are stored in OneDrive for Business or in Sites.
Find information about other people
You can find information about other people by going to their profile page in Delve. The People list on the left shows some of the people you’ve recently viewed in Delve. To find other people:
-
Click a person's name or picture anywhere in Delve.
-
Or, type their name in the search box, and then click their name.
Keep track of your favorite documents and boards
Whenever you see a document in Delve that you want to save for later, click the star to add it to your favorites.
Find people and information by using search
Start typing in the search box to find people, documents, or boards.
Office Graph
The Office Graph lives in Office 365. It stores data about Office 365 entities and the relationships between them as nodes and edges in a graph index. Examples of entities are person and document; examples of relationships are shared and modified.
The Office Graph uses advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to connect and complete the data coming from all of the Office 365 services. To present the most relevant content in different contexts, the Office Graph uses a two-step analysis.
-
calculates which users in the graph are most relevant to the current context.
-
retrieves the most relevant content associated with these users.
The Office Graph continuously collects and analyses signals that you and your colleagues send when you work in Office 365. For example, when you and a colleague modify or view the same document, it’s a signal that you’re likely to be working together.
Other signals are who you communicate with through e-mail, and who you’ve shared documents with, who your manager is, and who has the same manager as you.
Delve uses the result of the Office Graph analysis to show you documents that are most likely to be relevant to you right now. For example, the Office Graph will notice if several of the people you regularly work with, view a specific document. That document is most likely also interesting to you, so Delve shows it on your Home page.
The Microsoft Graph API allows developers to discover and modify entities in the Office Graph. Like other Office 365 APIs, the Office Graph API will follow REST and OData 4.0 standards for data transport, and use the OAuth 2.0 standard for authentication and authorization.
Refer to the Office 365 Application Development section later in this document.
Introduce Delve in your Organization -
SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business are the primary sources of content in Delve. How you and users manage permissions on documents and sites affects what users see in Delve.
-
You can download this email template to announce Delve in your organization.
-
Let users know they can get Delve on their mobile phones, see Office Delve for Android or Office Delve for iPhone.
-
You can point users to the Delve help articles. What is Office Delve? is a great starting point, and users may be particularly interested in the information in the articles - Are my documents safe in Office Delve?, What kind of information will I find in Office Delve? and Store your documents where Office Delve can get to them.
Resources
Watch Videos …
-
Introducing Office Delve Mobile Apps for Android and iPhone
-
The Office 365 Authoring Canvas inside Office Delve
Read …
-
What is Office Delve?
-
What kind of information will I find in Office Delve?
-
How does Office Delve know what's relevant to me?
-
How to use the content cards in Delve
-
View and edit your profile
-
Connect and collaborate in Office Delve
-
Group and share documents in Office Delve
-
How can I find people and information in Office Delve?
-
Are my documents safe in Office Delve?
-
What decides the title on the card?
For Admins
-
Office Delve for Office 365 admins
-
What is the effect of allowing or not allowing access to the Office Graph?
Share with your friends: |