You can now add assistants to any profile in OneDirectory!

This new feature makes it easy for everyone in the company to see who supports who, right on their profile.

To enable the Assistant field, follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings > Fields
2. Under Connections, click the Assistant field
3. In the side pane, toggle the field to Enabled
4. Choose who can edit it (Directory Editors or Employees)
5. Click Save

Once enabled, just switch to edit mode on any profile. You’ll see the new Assistant field in the Connections pane on the right, where you can easily add or remove assistants directly on the profile.

This month, we squeezed out a bunch of updates to sweeten your OneDirectory experience. Here’s what's new:

🚀 OneDirectory is already fast, but we gave it extra punch with a few behind-the-scenes performance optimizations!

⏪ Added a Collapse button to the contact column in list view: shows after clicking Expand on the contact items.

👨‍💼 ICYMI: The Manager field is now displayed in the list view, and you can group by and sort by Manager

✨ Dozens of small UI updates! Margins and alignment, contrast improvements, font styling, element sizing tweaks, colors and shading, heading styles, placeholder text updates, and more. (Let us know if you have any comments or requests.)

Bugs...

🐛 Fixed a bug where the save dialog for offices and departments wouldn’t close after hitting save

🐛 Fixed a bug with Hobbies & Interests tags in edit mode not showing the correct icon

🐛 Fixed a bug where the State field wasn't displayed in the address on the profiles. Now it shows next to the city name, e.g. "Atlanta, GA" if you've enabled the State field (in Settings > Fields).

🐛 Squashed a quirky bug that blocked admin or directory editor access if a user’s UserPrincipalName (UPN) didn’t match their email address, and they hadn't signed in before. It didn’t happen often, but it won’t happen again.

We’ve just rolled out an enhancement to People Search, bringing the built-in Manager field directly into search results. You can now:

• View the Manager field in list view for any people search result
• Group by and sort by Manager, giving you a new way to visualize reporting lines across your organization
• Export Manager details in the CSV download

This small but powerful update makes it easier to explore team structures and understand who reports to whom, right from the search results, without needing to open profiles or the full org chart.

We released some bug fixes and minor updates to make your OneDirectory experience just a little bit better!

🏦 Updated the Organizational Units group heading to Organizational Structure in the field settings, in preparation for some exciting new features we're working on

🎯 Moved Skills field into Job Information section in field settings

🤖 Setup Assistant: Removed 3 of the less-relevant 12 onboarding steps to streamline the process. Also improved the descriptions, and changed the order of the "customize" steps.

🔗 Profile menu (top right): updated styling and updated Product Updates link to point to the new News Center at news.onedirectory.com

📃 Content updates on the trial registration page

🐛 Fixed a bug with apostrophes in accountName field (OneDirectory profile account names are generated from the email address; who knew email addresses could contain apostrophes?! 🤷‍♂️)

🐛 Fixed issue where new organizational units are now disallowed from using the name "Team" to prevent conflicts with the existing "Team" (department) organizational unit.

🐛 Fixed a sync progress issue in the Setup Assistant

🐛 Fixed tap glitch bugs by removing underline from all links on touch devices

🐛 Fixed a recently introduced issue with the sidebar flyouts not hiding themselves when you click an item in the flyout

🐛 Fixed a mobile UI glitch when tapping sidebar items

It's now easier than ever to browse profile connections, thanks to a redesigned connections pane on every profile.

The connections pane lets you quickly view people connected to the current profile. In addition to managers and direct reports, you can click the expander button above the manager to see the individual's full reporting line.

Plus, you'll soon be able to view assistants and dotted line managers in the connections pane if you've configured those new fields.

We're thrilled to unveil our newly redesigned org chart, and we think you're going to love it!

As one of the most popular features in OneDirectory, the interactive org chart helps teams visualize their company structure and plays a crucial role in organizational transparency. That’s why we’ve put a lot of effort into crafting a thoughtful redesign to deliver the best org chart experience in the world.

The new design is cleaner and more intuitive, and it lays the foundation for some exciting new features we’ll be rolling out in the coming months.

We’ve also refined the org chart toolbar, making it sleeker and less intrusive on the main display area—preparation for some useful new toolbar options that are coming soon.

Let us know what you think of the new org chart 😊

We’ve rolled out some exciting user interface upgrades and feature enhancements to make your OneDirectory experience even better. Here's what's new:

🔍 Building on our previous search box redesign, the search box now features enhanced styling and is positioned within a static header bar that remains visible throughout your OneDirectory experience. More to come!

📩 Updated the main header area across all pages, allowing more content to be visible in the search results

🎯 Restyled the entity groups in search results to make them stand out and be more easily distinguishable. Additionally, the "See more" links now expand only the current entity group instead of all groups at once.

📑 Page headings have been added to the Everyone, Offices, and Departments pages, as well as to organizational unit homepages

🎴 Enhanced text styles and colors on cards, tiles, and list view items for a consistent and improved app-wide experience

💻 Improved the sizing of cards and tiles in search results to ensure better responsiveness across various screen resolutions

🌍 Redesigned the office address on the Office pages to clearly highlight the region and country, along with the office address

🔗 Profile: Automatically add hyperlinks on fields that looks like they should be clickable URLs

🤖 Enhancements to the service accounts checker

🌟 Highlighting "Skills" in the sidebar if we're on a skill page

💫 Updated the sync so the hireDate field uses the new "employeeHireDate" field in the Microsoft Graph

🐛 Fixed an issue where skills that contained an ampersand ("&") weren't able to be deleted from profiles

🐛 Fixed handling of circular references in the manager hierarchy of any reporting line; rendering of the people pane on profiles was being affected

🐛 Fixed an org chart bug where the root node could initially render behind the search box on smaller screen resolutions

🐛 Fixed a recent bug with the A-to-Z keyboard disappearing in certain instances

We've made a few improvements to the org chart and the search UI:

🔽 The "expander button" at the bottom of each org chart block has been enlarged for easier clicking, and the icon has been updated to up/down arrows instead of the previous +/- symbols.

🔗 For customers with multiple org charts (chat to us if you want this feature) - each org chart now has its own unique URL, and they are now searchable.

📐 Improvements to the "Layout" button and flyout in the org chart toolbar.

📌 Updated search box styling when in "sticky" mode (after you've scrolled down the page).

🌟 Highlighting "Org Chart" in sidebar if we're in an org chart search. Also works with multiple org charts feature.

🌐 Browser compatibility updates for keyboard events and fullscreen mode.

🐛 Fixed bug where some "View in org chart" icons were still showing if the org chart feature is disabled.

🐛 Fixed bug with the search box not clearing when navigating to a job title, skill, or interest page.

It's now possible to search the org chart directly! 🎉

When you're on the org chart, just type in the main search box at the top to instantly search/filter the org chart view that you're in. Org chart searches happen instantly in the browser, so no page reloads.

When you type a query into the main search box, you'll also notice new "Directory" and "Org Chart" tabs appear in the search box. These tabs allow you to quickly switch between a directory search and an org chart search.

We hope you like this new feature! 😊

To make it even easier for you to get up and running with OneDirectory, we've launched a new feature called the Setup Assistant ✨

The Setup Assistant is available as a side pane within OneDirectory and can be accessed at any time from the profile menu (click your profile picture in the top right of the app). It guides you step by step through connecting to your Microsoft 365 data source and importing profiles—making it even faster to set up your automated employee directory and org chart.

The Setup Assistant also guides you through some of the most useful settings, so you're familiar with how to customize your directory and org chart right from the start!