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Posting to yammer as an announcement

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We want to be able to post to a certain Yammer group as an announcement, not as a regular update.


As far as I understand, the broadcast option should do that, but it doesn't. Any ideas?

 

MS support advised that it's out of scope for them, so looking for suggestions here.

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  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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    Re: Posting to yammer as an announcement

    This is still an issue. Line breaks don't render with an announcement but do render for non-announcements.

     

    Could this defect be prioritized?

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    Hey I was wondering if anyone can cover my shift next Wednesday the 18th. Thanks!
  • tianaranjo Profile Picture
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    Re: Posting to yammer as an announcement

    I have a PowerApp with 3 selections, if 'Ask a Quesion' is selected, I would like the quesion asked within the PowerApp and saved to SharePoint to be moved into a Yammer group.  I see that there is a Flow to copy an item from SharePoint to Yammer.  However, I do no know how to write the condition to say only move an item to Yammer if the text = 'Ask a Question'.  if anyboday within this group has ideas, I sure would appreciate them.

    Thanks!

  • Apaelijo Profile Picture
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    Re: Posting to yammer as an announcement

    Another observation, the formatting i.e., line breaks aren't being rendered the same in the Yammer post.

  • ilriyammer Profile Picture
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    As a follow up to the original question, I am posting RSS feeds to Yammer but the links come out as plain html links. Is there a way to get those neat looking links such as the one shown below?

     

    Screen Shot 2016-09-21 at 11.46.17 AM.png

    Right now what I get is this:

     

    Screen Shot 2016-09-21 at 11.47.42 AM.png

    Thanks

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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    Re: Posting to yammer as an announcement

    Thanks @kartikraop.

     

    It's strange as usually announcements allow you to insert a hyperlink when you post them in Yammer directly.

  • kartikraop Profile Picture
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    @Anonymous, yes indeed links are posted as plain text in an announcement and as hyperlinks in regular posts. This appears to be a Yammer api quirk. Neverthless, I will forward the details to the connector team who own the integration with Yammer service for further investigation. I will share an update once I have one.

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    Re: Posting to yammer as an announcement

    Flows are working fine now 🙂 @kartikraop but I don't seem to be able to post links in those announcements - they don't get formatted as links, but instead as plain text. Before, when we posted regular updates rather than announcements - the links did appear with the proper formatting.

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    Re: Posting to yammer as an announcement

    @kartikraop thanks. That's great! However all of our flows are broken since 09/07 without any clear error message. I guess I'll have to contact Support.... unless you know anything that might have broken all flows?

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    Re: Posting to yammer as an announcement

    @Anonymous, you can now post announcements on Yammer. You would have to set the Broadcast field value to true and also provide a value for Title. Yammer can't post announcements without a title.

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