Delve, formerly known as Project Oslo, is a new and innovative way to discover information and content in Office 365. Delve recommends information to you based on analytics from SharePoint, Yammer, Lync and Exchange. In this session we will take a look at the programming API's of Delve, the Office Graph. We will take a look at the foundation concepts of the Office Graph and see how we can build smart and helpful applications for your organization as well as extending Delve.

1. Building solutions with Office
Graph
Wictor Wilén - MVP
Waldek Mastykarz - MVP

3. It’s a preview…

4. Delve [delv], verb
“Reach inside a
receptacle and
search for
something”
“Research or make
painstaking inquiries
into something”

5. Delve vs. Office Graph
Delve
An application pivoting on
the data in the Office
Graph
Currently only web based
Office Graph
Based on Search/FAST
Machine Learning
techniques that connects
you to relevant data
An API

6. Delve Web

7. Delve App for Android

8. Delve App for iOS

9. Delve App for Windows Phone

10. Privacy in Delve and Office Graph
 It’s Search -> it’s security trimmed!
 Relations in the Office Graph
 Public or Private
 Trending stuff
 Need at least five (5) interactions before trending
 What about a drug-policy trending in Delve?
 Prohibit Search from index the document library
 Hide documents from delve. Managed Property
called HideFromDelve.
• See: askwictor.com/HideFromDelve

11. WHAT IS THIS SHINY NEW THING
YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT…
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12. Terminology
 Actor
 Source Node in the Office Graph
 Represented by the DocId of the item in the search index (or ME)
 Object
 Target Node in the Office Graph
 Represented by the DocId of the item in the search index
 Edge
 Relationship/interaction between the Actor and Object
 Has a Action type, a Weight, a timestamp and a few more properties
 Action type
 The type of action the Edge represents
Actor ObjectEdge

13. Modified, viewed
Trending, working with
Manager, colleagues

14. QUERYING THE OFFICE GRAPH
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15. Office Graph query options
REST
/_api/search/query
JSOM
KeywordQuery()
CSOM
KeywordQuery()

16. Office Graph and OAuth
 Querying the Office Graph is supported by
 SharePoint Apps – ie classic apps that use ACS and
appregnew.aspx
 Azure AD Apps – the kind of apps you should use 
 Requires delegated permissions
 SharePoint Apps: Search-
>QueryAsUserIgnoreAppPrincipal
– Missing permissions -> no result
 Azure AD Apps: Office 365 SharePoint Online -> Run
file search queries as a user
– Missing permissions -> an error

17. QUERYING THE OFFICE GRAPH
USING CSOM

18. REAL-LIFE SCENARIOS
Using the Office Graph to build real-life solutions

19. Thank you for attending!
Wictor Wilén
Waldek Mastykarz