Yammer Integration

Recognize has the distinction of being the most integrated Yammer partner. We accomplish this in several ways using two different levels of integration:

1) Yammer Impersonation, which gives Recognize the ability to post recognitions on behalf of your users, enabling users to have their recognitions posted to Yammer without having to directly sign-in with Yammer
2) Recognize offers browser extensions

 

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Select the below links to learn more:


Standard Yammer Integration

Utilizing Recognize's Browser Extension for Yammer Integration

Using Yammer and Other Integrations Securely

Disabling the Yammer Integration

 

 

Standard Yammer Integration

Below, you will find instructions for setting up Recognize's Yammer Integration utilizing impersonation to post user's recognitions to Yammer.

  1. Select 'Menu' in the top right-hand corner of your screen
  2. Select 'Company Admin' from the drop-down menu

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  3. Select 'Settings' in the left menu
  4. Select 'Yammer' in the right side navigation pane
  5. Toggle the setting for 'Allow posting recognition events to Yammer wall' to 'ON'
  6. This will prompt an 'Authenticate with Yammer' button to appear, if you have not already authenticated with Yammer. If you wish to ensure that all recognitions are posted to a group, your account must be authenticated with Yammer. 
  7. Once you are authenticated with Yammer, you can select a group to have users post recognitions to, but this is optional. When selected, all recognitions will post to this group. When unselected, users will have a choice of groups to post to. The groups shown to end users will only be groups that user has permission to post to.
  8. The feature "Yammer Impersonation" enables users to post their recognitions to Yammer without having to directly sign in with Yammer. If you do not configure impersonation, users must individually authenticate to Yammer to post to there. To configure Yammer Impersonation Posting, type in the name of a Recognize user account that is connected to a Yammer Admin Account. In other words, that Recognize user account must have authenticated with Yammer and their Yammer account must have the privileges of a Yammer admin. 
  9. In the text box, enter an email of any user in your Yammer network to test if Recognize can post on behalf of that user if you wish to test this functionality after picking an admin user as the impersonating user
  10. Select the 'Check' button to run the test

    NOTE: You will receive a pop up letting you know whether the user email you entered is an authorized admin.

  11. If you do not wish to set up impersonation and want to allow users to individually authenticate with Yammer in order to post, Toggle 'Allow users to connect to Yammer' to 'ON'
  12. Toggle 'Allow managers to be private messaged on Yammer upon recognition' to notify Managers about recognitions for their direct reports within Yammer

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  13. Once Yammer Impersonation is properly set up, your users will see a checkbox in their recognition forms for 'Post to Yammer,' which will be checked by default
  14. They can then select a group for each recognition they send, if you've chosen to limit where recognitions are posted within Yammer

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    Yammer Standard Integration Benefits:

    • Recognize recognitions can show up on Yammer's feed
    • Single Sign-On with Yammer
    • Gets the signed-in user's first name, last name, avatar, job title, and adds the data to their Recognize account
    • Allows admins to disable password saving in Recognize for security. See the Settings in the Company Admin for more
    • Autocomplete list of users when searching users or adding recognition recipients
    • Supports the deprecated org chart for Yammer

    Note: If you choose not to set up Yammer impersonation, automated Anniversary and Birthday Recognitions will not post to Yammer because the specific action of checking the box labeled 'Post to Yammer' must be taken while sending a Recognition in this set up

 

Utilizing Recognize's Browser Extension for Yammer Integration

In order to see Recognize inside of Yammer, you need one of our browser extensions installed.

See how to install

The browser extensions are very basic - Firefox, Safari, and Chrome extensions are under ten lines of JavaScript, for example, so even the most strict corporate virus scanners pass our extensions.

 

Benefits to the extension:

  • Send recognition directly within Yammer
  • Browse the entire Recognizeapp.com domain from within Yammer
  • +1 recognition posts within Yammer
  • View user's recognitions on their Yammer profile
  • A convenient 'Send a Recognition' button on user's profiles on Yammer
  • Easily administer Recognize from Yammer
  • Easily view leaderboards from Yammer

Note: The browser extensions are not supported on mobile. 

 

 

Using Yammer and Other Integrations Securely

Connecting Yammer, Office 365, Google, or Slack with Recognize is no different than logging in with Twitter or Facebook to Spotify or another third-party product, for example. All of these connections use the same standard authentication method called OAuth.
 
OAuth is a trusted authentication method between applications. In this case, Yammer uses OAuth to let Recognize identify your users, which allows us to achieve our integration securely. For instance, we can sync your users into Recognize entirely from Yammer. Posting to your Yammer wall, however, can only be done if an individual user authenticates with Recognize and gives explicit permission within a recognition form.
 
As far as security implications go, the only concern would be posting to Yammer via Recognize if a Recognize account is jeopardized. For these rare occurrences, we have extra layers of security in place. For instance, you can disable passwords with Recognize and force your users to log in with Yammer. This reduces the chances of users having their accounts jeopardized by reducing the number of passwords they are using. 
 
For more information on our security measures, see our security overview PDF: https://www.recognizeapp.com/recognize-security-overview.pdf
 
 

Disabling the Yammer Integration

If you no longer wish to use the Yammer integration with Recognize, disabling Yammer is easy.

Steps for Disabling Yammer

  1. After signing in to Recognize, select Menu from the far right corner
  2. Select Company Admin from the dropdown menu
  3. Select 'Settings' from the far left navigation menu
  4. Scroll down to 'Integrations' & under 'Yammer Settings' find the option that says 'Allow users to connect to Yammer' and toggle that to 'OFF'

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You can also view our Yammer integration guide attached.

 

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