Social Media Style Activity Feed Widget

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Mike Taylor

• July 31, 2020 05:35
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What if there was a user activity driven social media style widget?

11:58AM - Mike Taylor - Added new Sales Quote #200100
10:00AM - John Smith - Created Delivery #300100 based on Order #200100

Would be kind of cool if you had little circle with MT or a photo from the HR module like Teams.

Filter by branch / department from Employee Master Data if wanted.

Check / uncheck options for various activities.

Add various custom activities with UDFs, maybe you could use a set of default "Activities" based on SQL queries, then users could add their own.  Somewhat like the B1 Search functionality.  So if they had a UDF for an E-commerce transaction they could say: New E-Commerce Order from Shopify #100200.

Kind of gives a little life to the flow of information which isn't clearly visible.

Mike

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  Mike Taylor

  • July 31, 2020 05:37

  I am experimenting right now with HTTP Triggers to post into Teams, but might be nice to have it within SAP.
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  • July 31, 2020 05:40

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  Rasmus Jensen

  • July 31, 2020 06:14

  Hi Mike

  Thank you for the idea. We actually did toy with a similar idea a few years back but for some reason, I can't remember (properly lack of time), it did not go anywhere.

  But given that collaboration is a much bigger factor now then in the past it might be worth taken a second look at it if this gets some votes.

  I'm also torn if such data should go to SAP or Teams... If it went to teams it would be seen by more employees, but if it were in SAP it could be more interactive navigating to the data.
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  Mike Taylor

  • July 31, 2020 17:44

  I imagine that you could make a set of default "queries" (aka Post Types or something) returning specific data (new order, new invoice, employee birthday, etc.) and then each of these could be grouped into "Feeds" which can be used as the source for a widget on an internal dashboard or perhaps each "Feed" could have a checkbox "Post to Teams / Slack / Raw" with the particular channel.

  By organizing the feeds with the various options you could post to multiple internal dashboard feeds (some at the same time posting into Teams / Slack / Raw) and some might only go to Teams, etc.  So you have clear and consistent visibility, while of course the internal dashboards would have the full golden arrow link.

  Then you have custom "Post Types" (some defaults as mentioned) where you check off boxes to run or not run per the feeds, then you can add your own or duplicate to various feeds per type.  So you could have "New Order (X Branch)" but then use the default "New Order" query but add your own little WHERE filter for employee of the specific branch based on either the employee master data or any other UDF, etc. (just a query).

  Then there would be enough control to give everyone what they want (as much as conceivably possible, haha).

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