Crisis Communication solution feedback

[mabolan]

On Monday afternoon, as news of COVID-19 cases spread globally, we pulled together a team to help customers coordinate their own information sharing and team collaboration in response to evolving conditions in times of crisis. Today, less than 48 hours later, we’re releasing the first version of that solution for any customer organization to quickly implement. You can read more about the solution in our blog post or get the full instructions for how you can implement your own Crisis Communication app here.

We're extremely excited to hear how the community leverages this app, so we've created this thread to hear directly from you. Feel free to share your experience customizing the solution and altering it for your own needs. Over the next few weeks, we'll take your responses to make the app even better and post incremental updates. 😁

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous
Do you have Exchange Online?
This might be because you don't have Outlook 365.
I have this same issue and would love if this could be resolved!

[Anonymous]

@Anonymous 

No we don't ... aah that makes sense!

I also hope it gets resolved!

[ThomForeman]

Love the idea of this app and will be very helpful.  We are running into an issue though.

I went through the very detailed instructions (thanks for those) and everything goes according to the steps, but when we deploy the app all we see is the attached picture. It finds my pic in AD, and says Hello, Thomas. Then a message shows on the screen saying:

"Please configure this app in the Crisis Communication Admin app or the SharePoint list for admin configuration."

The Admin page is fine and seems to be working.

We deleted everything and then tried again and had the same problem.

Any thoughts or tips?

[Anonymous]

Big thank you for sharing this solution

🍻

Does anyone have details on how to add the user status updates to Planner also?

[Anonymous]

Found a solution to my question with some trial and error in Flow Power Automate

[jennyosh]

@mr-zedly @mabolan 

I am facing the same issue on the links. No Data Source provided error.

Please advise if i have missed any setup steps. Thank you in advance! 

Jenny

[jennyosh]

Dear @mabolan 

Currently do not have Teams Admin Rights. Please advise what's the best way to ensure App can be visible to all team members.

These are the extracted steps from the Documentation requiring Team Admin rights. Thank you! 

Jenny

1. Go to the Teams admin center

2. In the left navigation pane under Teams apps, select Setup policies.

3. Select Global (Org-wide setup).

4. Select Add apps.

5. Search for and select the Crisis Information app you uploaded.

6. Select Add.

7. Select Save.

[Mr-Dang-MSFT]

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@ThomForeman wrote:

I went through the very detailed instructions (thanks for those) and everything goes according to the steps, but when we deploy the app all we see is the attached picture. It finds my pic in AD, and says Hello, Thomas. Then a message shows on the screen saying:

"Please configure this app in the Crisis Communication Admin app or the SharePoint list for admin configuration."

The Admin page is fine and seems to be working.

We deleted everything and then tried again and had the same problem.

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Hi @ThomForeman,

You will need to go into the Crisis Communication Admin app and turn on feature flags for the features that you want to enable in the Crisis Communication app. 

Turn on the toggles for the parts of the app that you want.

Note that to save your settings, the preferred notification method needs a value. 

Also note that the Admin app, like the main app, will need to have its connections to SharePoint removed so you can add your own connections.

[Mr-Dang-MSFT]

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@jennyosh wrote:

@mr-zedly @mabolan 

I am facing the same issue on the links. No Data Source provided error.

Please advise if i have missed any setup steps. Thank you in advance! 

Jenny

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Hi Jenny,

This happens because the form is pointing to the selection in the gallery. In the next version, this is switching to using a variable to hold the selection instead.

So that you're unblocked, you can change the OnSelect of the Links gallery to:

Set(selectedLink,ThisItem);
Navigate('Links Screen',Fade)

And change the Item property of the related form to:

selectedLink

Apply this pattern where needed. Else, you can wait for the next version which has some other improvements for the Admin app as well.

[Mr-Dang-MSFT]

@martinkwright ,

If you point a drop down menu or gallery to:

Sort(colFAQ,Rank)

Does that show the correct order?

If you've made modifications to your SharePoint list, have you removed it and re-added it to the app to get the most recent schema? I've not been able to replicate your bug and would appreciate any clarification.