Currently Yammer integration is handled by a SharePoint App in SharePoint Online and in on premise environments. What if you want to create your own Yammer App? What do you need to know and how can you achieve this? During this session I will get into some of the basic knowledge of how Yammer works and explain which steps you need to take to build your own Yammer App based on a real life examples

1. Build your own Yammer App

2. About me
http://www.sharepointinspiration.com

3. Agenda

4. Yammer

5. What is Yammer?

6. Yammer main structure

8. Versions
Basic
(Freemium)
Enterprise
(paid)
Basic Yammer Features X X
Collaboration Features X X
Yammer Mobile X X
Apps X X
Admin Tools X
Network level Apps and
integration
X
Support and Services X

9. Roles and permissions
Member All users are at least a member of the Yammer network. Ability
to use yammer.
Group admin The person who created a group becomes the group admin of
that group. It allows to add and remove members from that
group.
Network admin / admin This role manages the network. This requires a “paid” network.
Verified admin The role has all the abilities and is sometimes called the one
with “God” rights. This requires a “paid” network.
http://www.collabshow.com/2014/01/06/yammer-roles-permissions-drill-down

10. Current integration with SharePoint
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2835453

11. Yammer Apps in SharePoint

12. What are the possibilities?

13. SharePoint Apps explained
SharePoint
Web
On-premise
SharePoint
SharePoint
Web
Azure
Parent Web
(Host)
App Web
Provider-Hosted App
Use your own server hosting
architecture
Autohosted App
Windows Azure + SQL Azure
provisioned inivisibly as
apps are installed
(DEPRECATED!!!)
Cloud-based Apps
The app runs in a separate host
Or as a service
SharePoint-Hosted App
Creation of isolated sub web on a parent web
Contains only web elements
Examples are lists, out-of-the box Web Parts
No server code allowed, only client JavaScript for logic and UX

14. Best practices - APIs
Embed
code on
page
User
Control
Web Part
SharePoint-
Hosted App
Provider-
Hosted
App
Yammer
Embed
Yes Yes Yes
Yes, with some
exceptions as like,
follow and
commenting
No
Yammer
JS SDK
No Yes Yes Yes No
REST API No
Yes, using
.NET code
Yes, using
.NET code
Yes, only through
JavaScript calls
Yes, using .NET
code

15. Yammer API

16. Yammer API overview
http://developer.yammer.com

17. Register a Yammer App
https://www.yammer.com/client_applications
http://www.yammer.com

18. Register a Yammer App

19. Demo – Round up

20. REST API

21. REST API
http://developer.yammer.com/restapi/

22. REST API – Authenticate
https://www.yammer.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=8dLIaFanMB6SjDg31nI1LA&redirect_uri=http://www.y
ammer.com
https://www.yammer.com/portiva.nl/?code=v3lMbrkJxFFcKg2gMBuA

23. REST API - Authenticate
https://www.yammer.com/oauth2/access_token.json?client_id=8dLIaFanMB6SjDg31nI1LA&clien
t_secret=dXHD9f0hGYG0I268rtgnJNuUaq8j3FYStUqelVHKKwg&code=v3lMbrkJxFFcKg2gM
BuA

24. REST API - Authenticate
https://www.yammer.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=8dLIaFanMB6SjDg31nI1LA&redirect_uri=http://ww
w.yammer.com&response_type=token
https://www.yammer.com/portiva.nl/#access_token=qE3mHnueSIhBDV7B3S5zQ

25. Authentication

26. Demo – Round up

27. REST API - Resources

28. REST API – Interesting Endpoints
Endpoints Parameters
Messages
https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/messages.json
https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/messages/following.json
https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/messages/private.json
older_than
newer_than
threaded
limit
Users
https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/users/current.json
https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/users/[:id].json
Relationships https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/relationships.json user_id
Notifications https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/streams/notifications.json
Search https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/search.json
search
page
num_per_page

29. REST API Call

30. Demo – Round up

31. REST API – Rate Limits
http://developer.yammer.com/restapi/#rest-ratelimits
Requests Per Seconds
Messages 10 30
Notifications 10 30
Autocomplete 10 10
All other resources 10 10

32. JavaScript SDK

33. JavaScript SDK
https://assets.yammer.com/assets/platform_js_sdk.js

34. JavaScript SDK- Authenticate

35. Authenticate with JavaScript SDK

36. Demo – Round up

37. JavaScript SDK- Access data

38. Yammer Embed

39. Yammer Embed

40. Yammer Embed – Feed widget
https://www.yammer.com/widget/configure

41. Yammer Embed – Action buttons

42. Yammer Embed – Commenting

43. Use Yammer Embed

44. Demo – Round up

45. Open Graph

46. Open Graph
Actor Action Object App Name Message
Alexander created Company meeting YammerTestAppForPortiva Lets meet!
Actor A Yammer user
Action A verb describing what happens. E.g. created, updated, deleted, liked, followed
Create your own verbs per App on yammer.com
Object Represents an instance in your App and are uniquely identified.
Supported are place, person, department, team, project, folder, file, document,
image, audio, video and company
App Name Name of your App doing the post
Message The message shown

47. Open Graph – Custom

48. Open Graph – Post
https://www.yammer.com/api/v1/activity.json
{
"activity":{
"actor":{"name":“Alexander Meijers",
"email":“ameijers@portiva.nl"},
"action":"create", "object": {
"url":“http://www.yammer.com",
"title":“Corporate Meeting"
},
"message":“Lets meet!",
}

49. Open Graph

50. Demo – Round up

51. Yammer and .NET

52. Yammer.NET
http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2013/10/05/using-the-yammer-api-in-a-net-
client-application.aspx

53. Search Yammer

54. Demo – Round up

55. Takeaways & round up

56. THANK YOU