Storyline in Viva Engage
Start the conversation or join the ones around you through storyline in Viva Engage. Your storyline is where you share experiences, celebrate milestones, propose ideas, and discuss your interests both inside and outside of the workplace. Find out what people in your company are talking about by selecting the Storylines tab in Viva Engage.
Note: You can also view your storyline through your profile icon on the right navigation menu.
Post on storyline
Storyline posts reach people wherever they work. You can read, react, and comment from Outlook, Teams, Yammer, and Viva Connections.
Post on your storyline from the following places in Viva Engage:
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Your personal storyline
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The storylines feed
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Your home feed
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When you post on your Home feed, select My storyline from the community picker.
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Tip: To access Viva Engage from Microsoft Teams, install and pin the Viva Engage app for Teams to your left rail to gain quick access to your storyline.
Grow your personal network
People across your organization can discover your storyline posts in feeds. They can follow you and choose to get notifications when you share to your storyline. Following others will help you learn more about them and as more people follow each other, it becomes easier to share and exchange ideas.
1. Start by following people in your organization by selecting Follow in someone’s storyline post or on their personal storyline.
2. Turn on notifications by selecting the bell icon next to the following button on someone’s post.
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a. From there, you can customize the clients, outside of Yammer, in which you’d like to be notified when the person posts to their storyline.
3. Use @mentions when you post to notify people who may be interested in your content.
4. After publishing, share your posts to relevant communities through the Share menu, or copy a link to share in email, Teams channel or chat.
Note: Storyline notifications are integrated into Outlook’s actionable messages framework, which allows you to view, reply, and react to the full storyline conversation without ever leaving Outlook.
Stay informed with the storylines landing page
To explore what others are writing about in their storyline, visit the storylines landing page. This page aggregates the content from people you follow with relevant and trending storyline content across the organization.
Access the storylines landing page by selecting the Storylines tab from the top navigation menu of Viva Engage.
The storylines landing page features three feeds to keep you informed.
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The general Feed is a personalized feed that uses a relevance-based sort to prioritize the most relevant storyline content to you, featuring storyline posts from people you follow and trending storyline content from across your organization.
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The Following feed includes only the storyline content from the people you follow and is sorted by recency of the date the storyline conversation was started.
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The All feed includes all storyline posts within your organization and is most useful for admins who need to be aware of all conversations in their organization.
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To access all storyline conversations from across your organization, you'll need to select the filter icon, which will display the dropdown option for All.
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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Q: Why isn’t storyline available in our organization?
A: Storyline is only supported in Yammer enterprise networks that enforce Office 365 identity. If your network does not enforce Office 365 identity, is an external network, or is a Yammer Basic network, storyline will not be available. Your IT admins may also decide to disable storyline for your organization.
Q: Who can see storyline content?
A: Storyline content is visible to any internal user who has access to Viva Engage. Guests will not be able to see any storyline content.
Q: Who is notified when I post to my storyline?
A: Your followers will be notified via the notification preferences they have chosen. People who do not follow you will only be notified if you specifically @mention them. In those cases, those users will be notified the same way they are notified when @mentioned in group conversations.
Q: Is it possible to post to my storyline without notifying anyone?
A: No. It is not possible to override the notification behavior of storyline. Remember that following is an elective activity done by the follower, indicating their interest in what you have to say. Users that don’t follow you will not receive any notifications unless you specifically @mention them.
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