You can now edit your profile photo directly on your OneDirectory profile!

As long as the Photo field is set to editable, you can switch to edit mode and upload a new photo or replace your existing one right from your profile.

Directory Administrators can edit anyone’s photo too. To make the photo field editable for your teams, head to Settings > Fields & Structure and choose the Photo field to adjust its edit settings.

We’ve also fixed a small bug that sometimes caused profile photos not to refresh right away, even when synced from Microsoft 365.

October 2025 was packed with OneDirectory updates, including a new filter by location feature, a refreshed header design throughout the app, the ability to download all lists to CSV, and a lot of behind the scenes work for the upcoming custom fields functionality.

We also made many smaller improvements across the board - here are some of the highlights:

🤼 Groups are now collapsed by default and have been redesigned to be more compact and easier to use.

🌄 You can now click on city, state, and country in the offices list view to view everyone in those locations.

🔻 When sorting a column in list view, blank values now always appear at the bottom, making it easier to scan and compare data.

🙌 OneDirectory-specific custom fields are now searchable and are displayed in the entity search results.

🔍 Search box improvements and design updates to the entity search results blocks.

👨‍🏫 Various profile improvements in view and edit mode: larger country flag, new icons for employee type and ID, standardized headings and placeholders, auto-focus when entering edit mode, improvements to skills and interests editing, and job title field editing enhancements.

🔁 Switched the position of the Save/Cancel buttons in profile edit mode: Cancel on the left, Save on the right, to match modern UI patterns

📅 The Hire Date field on the profile now shows "Joined" as the heading when in view mode.

🔗 URL fields now display social icons if the link is for a social profile like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc.

🐛 If an office has a U.S. address, the state is now correctly formatted in the single line address so copy/paste is accurate

🐛 Fixed sorting bug with numbers incorrectly being sorted as text and not as numeric values

🐛 Fixed field settings bug with multiselect tags not able to be deleted in certain instances

It’s a simple feature we’ve wanted to build for years, and it’s finally here: filtering by location!

You can now click on any city, state, or country in OneDirectory to instantly filter by that location and see everyone else whose address matches it.

You can also now group by city/town, state/region, or country to get a whole new view of your organization.

This feature adds an exciting new dimension to OneDirectory, making it easy explore and understand where your people are around the world.

We’ve introduced a redesigned header across OneDirectory with a cleaner, more compact design that’s easier to read, featuring updated text styling, colors, and spacing.

To make it easier to know where you are in the app, we’ve added a label above the page heading on areas like Departments, so it’s always clear what you’re viewing.

We’ve also improved the page icon to show a more relevant graphic, such as an office image, department icon, or country flag, depending on the type of page you’re viewing.

And a final little touch: the heading animation now slides up or down based on your navigation direction, bringing a bit more life to your "digital organization."

You can now export any search result or listing page directly to a CSV file 💾

Previously, only people search results and people lists could be downloaded to CSV. Now, you can also export:

🏢 Offices
👥 Departments
🎯 Skills
🧱 Organizational units
🗂️ Custom entity pages

To download, scroll to the bottom of any listing and click the “Download” button. For example, at the bottom of the Offices page you’ll see a “Download office list” link, which exports all your offices, along with their phone numbers, addresses, and the number of people in each office.

BONUS 🎰 We’ve also added a new setting that lets you choose who can see the “Download” button and export data to CSV: either Everyone or Admins & Directory Editors. You can find this in Settings > General > Display Settings.

In August and September we rolled out major updates to our Microsoft 365 Sync, including a new priority sync queue and sync performance improvements.

At the same time, we also started work on one of our most highly requested features: Custom Fields! Coming soon to a OneDirectory near you 🔥🔥🔥

As always, we’ve fixed bugs and made numerous behind-the-scenes improvements. Here are some of the key updates:

✂️ Removed the thin progress bar that appeared at the top of the screen on every page load, as it added visual noise without providing meaningful value

🛠️ In Settings, Fields has been renamed to Fields & Structure. Organizational Structure fields are now displayed at the top, where you can add and manage organizational units. Profile fields are listed below them, now in alphabetical order instead of categories, making it easier to find the field you're looking for.

🎯 You can now easily enter additional custom Skills and Interests with a new tag editing control, which replaces the comma-separated list

🔄 The field settings pane now loads asynchronously, to ensure you're always seeing the latest field changes (e.g. if multiple admins are editing fields at the same time)

🏷️ You can now see the internal field name and field type directly in the field settings pane

💡 Added helper text under some of the more complex fields in Settings (such as Synced and Editable, and Edit Permissions) to make them easier to understand

✨ Enhanced the “New organizational unit…” settings pane with clearer help text at the top and more intuitive labeling. Plus icon selection highlighting and various other UI refinements.

💼 ICYMI, two new fields that you can enable in field settings 👉 Employee Type and Employee ID

💯 Enabling the Assistant or Dotted Line Manager fields will override the "Hide people pane" setting, so they show on the profiles

🐛 Your company logo should appear automatically based on your domain name. However, uploading a logo manually wasn’t working, and now it is.

🐛 Resolved an issue where a department and an organizational unit sharing the same name could cause a URL conflict

🐛 Date selectors in profile edit mode now correctly populate January in the month dropdown after clicking the edit pencil

🐛 Organizational unit tiles and header icon now show the icon of the organizational unit and not the generic department icon

We’ve significantly boosted sync performance: syncs are now 2-3x faster across the board, for both automatic and manual updates.

Combined with our new sync priority queue, your Microsoft 365 profile data is now updated in OneDirectory faster than ever.

We've improved manual sync performance with a new priority queue.

Previously, all syncs - scheduled, manual, and trial - shared the same queue, which sometimes caused delays depending on system load ⏳

Now, manual syncs are prioritized and processed immediately, so your syncs will start without delay 👌

You can now enable 💼 Employee Type and #️⃣ Employee ID fields for inclusion on the profiles.

These fields are synced from Microsoft 365 by default, and can be made editable in OneDirectory.

Employee Type and Employee ID are optional (and disabled by default) since you may not wish to display this information on the profiles for all employees to see. However, if you do have this requirement you can now simply enable the fields and they'll work out the box.

👉 Employee Type is for storing and displaying the worker type, for example, Employee or Contractor.

👉 Employee ID is used for storing and displaying the internal employee number or identifier. Perhaps you've used this field to store other generic information about the employee (as we've found many companies do) and in this case you may wish to display this field on the profile.

To enable one or both of these fields, go to Settings > Fields, find them under Job Information, and toggle them to enabled.

In July we released two new features: org chart display options and the ability to add organizational units to OneDirectory. We also completed a huge platform upgrade that's been in the works for months 🚀

Here's some of the other things we improved in July 2025:

📄 A completely redesigned trial registration page. Including new "Continue with Microsoft" sign in option.

✨ Improved field styling across the profile page, with a more compact contact number section and layout tweaks to support upcoming fields

📱 Updated app icons for better support on modern browsers and mobile devices

🖼️ Improvements to the image selector, including smarter upload behavior for office, department, and org unit images

✍ Various UI tweaks to editing controls in profile edit mode

🍪 New cookie banner design across our web properties to make it easier for you to customize your consent preferences

🐛 Fixed a bug with filtering rule tooltips not showing in edit mode (the tooltip when hovering over the "eye" icon in the list view)