{"id":1493,"date":"2018-07-13T14:20:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officedevblogs.wpengine.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2018-07-13T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T21:20:17","slug":"new-microsoft-graph-powered-developer-template-supports-work-life-balance-and-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/new-microsoft-graph-powered-developer-template-supports-work-life-balance-and-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft Graph powered developer template supports work life balance and compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">Today we are releasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OfficeDev\/Timesheet\">Timesheet Tool developer template<\/a> to create your own applications which can give intelligent work insights with the Microsoft Graph and demonstrate how Office extensibility can support local compliance efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: text\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">In some countries like Japan, local regulations exist to prevent employees from overworking, which leads to lack of work life balance and possible compliance violations. Employees can find it difficult to track actual time spent working while completing their timesheets. With the power of the Microsoft Graph, employees can get a custom view on their work week, based on Graph data, and consider improvements for better work-life-balance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1484\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1484\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1484\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/07\/Customized-reports-using-Microsoft-Graph-data-1.png\" alt=\"Customized reports using Microsoft Graph data\" width=\"740\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/07\/Customized-reports-using-Microsoft-Graph-data-1.png 740w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/07\/Customized-reports-using-Microsoft-Graph-data-1-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customized reports using Microsoft Graph data<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">The Timesheet Tool developer template uses calendar and email activities to compute the time employees spend in Office 365 &#8211; providing employees, managers and HR visibility on employee work trends and can enable compliance efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">With the Timesheet Tool template solution, you can:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">Integrate worked hours with Office 365 usage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">Supports some local compliance and improve employee work life balance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">Have access to data and insights from Office 365<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1492\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_1492\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1492\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/07\/Employee-specific-views-and-time-tracking-2-2.png\" alt=\"Employee specific views and time tracking\" width=\"740\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/07\/Employee-specific-views-and-time-tracking-2-2.png 740w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2018\/07\/Employee-specific-views-and-time-tracking-2-2-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_1492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employee specific views and time tracking<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">The templates use the Microsoft Graph to look at activity data across Office 365 services and then includes the addition of workhours data from external sources. All the data is stored in SharePoint and can be deployed as an intranet portal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: text\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">We&#8217;re excited to make this template available and look forward to continued feedback and contributions from our developer community in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"cursor: text\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">Partners are already working with the template to create solutions to help customers\u2019 compliance requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/discoveries.co.jp\/analytics\/timesheet_eng\/\">Discoveries, Inc<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">Discoveries Inc has created a solution to analyze customer\u2019s data to understand how employees are using Office 365 by leveraging the Microsoft Graph. Our customers can then gain insights to increase productivity, suggest changes for enhancing team engagement and meeting local labor compliance regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Georgia',serif;font-size: 12pt\">To learn more about our Microsoft Graph resources, join the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\">Office Developer<\/a> program. As an open source project, we actively encourage participation in the community of other like-minded developers. To get more information about the reference solution being shared, check out the project on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OfficeDev\/Timesheet\">GitHub.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are releasing a Timesheet Tool developer template to create your own applications which can give intelligent work insights with the Microsoft Graph and demonstrate how Office extensibility can support local compliance efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69076,"featured_media":25159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,128,11],"tags":[18,35,12],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-graph","category-microsoft-teams","category-office-add-ins","tag-excel","tag-onedrive","tag-outlook"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today we are releasing a Timesheet Tool developer template to create your own applications which can give intelligent work insights with the Microsoft Graph and demonstrate how Office extensibility can support local compliance efforts.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}