Last week I wrote about “promoting” SharePoint news items to Yammer. Only when the header image lives in the Site Assets library, the image is displayed on Yammer.
(According to Susan Hanley, it is also displayed when the image is from Organizational Assets)
While I was doing the experiments, the following questions popped up:
- Does this work in the same way for News posted in Team sites?
- Is there any difference when you use a different browser?
- Do news items display better in the Yammer apps?
Let’s find out, shall we?
1. Promoting news from a Team site
Until now, I have only shared news from Communication sites. For the sake of completeness, I recreated all news items from my earlier post in an existing Team site in my tenant.
During Promoting to Yammer, the preview does not show the image, nor does it show on Yammer. This was the case for all options.
You may also notice that the display is slightly different than when you promote from a Communications site: there is no space on the left hand side for an image.
Now this Team site was created in January 2018 and is not a modern, group-enabled site so I tried it again with a freshly created Team site. Experiments are marked with T2. I have no “recent” option as this was a brand new site.
The preview shows an image in most cases, and on Yammer the behaviour is the same as for the Communication site as mentioned in my preceding post.
Conclusion: Very modern (group-enabled) Team sites work like a Communications site when showing images on Yammer, but if you have a slightly older Team site, your News header images may not be displayed. You may want to keep this in mind when troubleshooting!
2. Do different browsers show the same result?
I generally work in Microsoft Edge, but when I opened the Yammer page in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, there was no difference. I also tried Safari on my iPad, same results.
So this is not browser-dependent.
3. Yammer iOS apps
The experience in iOS was rather disappointing – no images are visible on iPad or iPhone, and for the Communication site, it showed just the link to the page. Not nice!
Conclusion
There’s quite a number of factors that influence the visibility of images on Yammer. Location of image, site type, site age, web or app, so there can be various reasons why the image from your News item is not displayed when shared on Yammer!
(I feel like creating a troubleshooting guide…)
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