Directory

Directory is a modern people directory: search your organisation, see live presence and native contact cards, celebrate birthdays and work anniversaries, and let people maintain their own profile details.

Permissions

Directory requests these Microsoft Graph scopes (approve once in SharePoint admin → Advanced → API access):

Set up

1. Install the package and approve the Graph permissions above (see the Install guide).
2. Edit a page → add the Glow Cloud Directory web part.
3. In the property pane, choose which features to show (search, filters, celebrations, organisation, self-service profiles).

Features

• People search & filtering with photos and live presence.
• Contact cards - the native SharePoint/Teams person card on hover, plus chat, video, email and phone actions.
• Celebrations - a strip showing upcoming birthdays and work anniversaries.
• Organisation - manager and direct-reports view.
• Related people - who someone works with, in a relationship you name yourself, from one list your team maintains (see below).
• Self-service profiles - users can fill in their own profile info (the "Your info" panel), stored in a list the web part can provision for you.
• Title banner - style the banner behind the directory title to match your brand (see below).

Self-service profile list

The self-service profile feature stores data in a SharePoint list. The web part can provision this list for you from the property pane; users can only edit their own entry.

Privacy

Personal data such as birthdays is opt-in - each person adds or removes their own details. The directory reads only what Microsoft Graph already exposes for your organisation.

Related people

Related people show who someone works with, in a relationship you name yourself. A law firm might call the two sides Attorneys and Secretaries; whatever words you choose become the names of the two list columns, so whoever fills the list in can see which way round a row goes.

The settings are in the property pane under Relationships. Turn on Show related people on the person card, name the two sides, then use Create relationships list to provision the list. Leave Relationships list site URL blank to keep the list on this site, or point it at another site so several directories share one list.

Each row names two people, one in each column, and that single row feeds both people's cards. There is no matching second row to keep in step, so the two directions cannot disagree, and correcting one row puts both cards right.

The relationships list

How they appear

• Related people layout - tabs (one direction at a time), compact tabs (Contact and Organisation shrink to icons to leave more room for your own labels), or sections (every direction listed together).
• The Profile card layout has no tabs, so related people always appear as sections there. Compact rows show them behind an icon in the row, alongside the other row actions.
• Show a related-people filter above the results adds a dropdown that narrows the directory to the people on one side of the list. It reads the list itself, so it can never disagree with the cards.

People who have left

Someone whose sign-in has been blocked, or whose account has been deleted, is treated as having left: they no longer appear in the directory. Where they are still named as a related person they are shown greyed, so you can see which rows need tidying instead of losing them silently.

Department and office filters

The department and office location filters fill themselves from the values your directory already holds, so they work on a newly added web part with nothing to type.

Departments and Office locations in the property pane are overrides, not the source. Add a row to give a value a different display name, or to move it to the top of the dropdown, and leave everything else to look after itself. Each row takes the key exactly as Entra ID holds it, plus the name to show instead. A key that matches nobody in your directory is named back to you in the property pane rather than quietly finding no-one.

Title banner

The banner behind the directory title can be styled to match your brand, so a people page looks like yours rather than a default web part. The settings are in the property pane under Application settings, just below the title and header logo, and each one appears only when the style you have chosen uses it.

• Title banner style - solid colour, soft tint, gradient fade, two colours, no fill (ghost), underline, accent bar, overline label, or background image. The quieter looks suit a directory sitting under a page hero or alongside other web parts; a full banner suits a directory that is the page.
• Banner shape - rounded or square, on the styles that have a fill.
• Banner colour - your own colour instead of the site theme colour. "Use the site theme colour" clears it again.
• Second colour - the other end of the gradient, on the two colours style.
• Banner background image - an office or team photo behind the title, with a readability overlay so the text stays legible over a busy picture.
• Overline text - the small label above the title on the overline style, for example "Our people" above "Find a colleague".
• Title text colour - automatic, light or dark. Automatic works the contrast out against the real banner colour (WCAG ratios), so a brand colour still reads; set it by hand over a gradient, a photo or a no-fill banner if you want the other one.

Existing directories are unchanged: a web part already on a page keeps the banner it has until someone chooses a style.