How to set up the Meet the Team Applet

The Meet the Team Applet can be added to homepages and content, to display team members from specific departments or highlight key contacts.

This guide covers:

• Meet the Team Applet use-cases
• Adding and configuring the applet on a homepage or content

Before you start:

• You'll need to be assigned the Homepage Manager permission for the area where the homepage lives
• If the applet is being added to content, you will need to be assigned as a Content Contributor

Use-cases

The applet has many practical use cases to help keep your people connected. Here is some inspiration to get you started:

• Welcome new starters: Point the applet to your New Starters system group to easily highlight and introduce new team members.

• Onboarding homepages: Show new starters their managers and team members.

• Highlight key contacts: Share the names and direct contact information of important people within a specific area or department.

• Clarify homepage ownership: Ensure everyone knows who to contact with questions about an area. You can assign this manually or automatically by setting an Area Manager in the Manage Areas menu and selecting Show Area Manager as a source within the applet.

• Celebrate employee of the month: Showcase your top performers as a form of recognition.

• Say farewell: Give a warm send-off to team members who are moving on to new adventures.

Adding and configuring the applet on a homepage or content

1. Navigate to the page options in the top-right of the homepage and select Edit this homepage
    
2. Click the pencil toolbox and find the applet. Drag and drop it onto the homepage where a blue line appears
    
3. To configure the applet, hover over it and click the three dots in the top-right

Adding to content?: When creating or editing content, click the pencil toolbox and find the applet. Drag and drop it onto the content where a blue line appears and configure as usual by selecting the three dots in the top-right corner of the applet. Follow the set-up guidance below.

4. Provide the applet with a title and choose an icon. To hide the title, toggle off Show title
    
5. Decide if you'd like to include a link to the People Directory and display a mini-profile when hovering by using the toggles
    
6. Choose how many people you would like to display per page. Click and drag the dot on the slider (0-20 range)
    
7. Choose the orientation - compact or standard. Standard will show the image, name and job title, whereas Compact will show their profile image only
    
8. Change the Sort By filtering options by selecting from the drop-down
    

9. Choose the team. 
   
   All members - shows all member within the area
   
   Select members - manually select the departments, offices, teams or user groups to display
   
   Show Area Manager - show the individual who has been assigned as the manager of the area from the Manage Areas menu
    

   

    

10. Apply filtering options by selecting from the drop-down - the user's office, manager, or department. This is useful for larger organisations
     
11. If All Members or Select Members has been selected, there will be the additional option to Include child areas
     
12. Click Close on the applet to save the changes, followed by publishing the homepage to make the changes live

Note: The applet is dynamic and will only appear on a homepages and content when there's people to show. For example, if there are no new starters, the applet will automatically hide itself. However, you'll still be able to see it when in edit mode.