Social - Overview

Bonzai Intranet for SharePoint has a number of social capabilities that allow for rich interaction in terms of commenting, liking and sharing content throughout your Intranet.

This section of the guide details the capabilities of social interactions within Bonzai Intranet and a number of options that can be configured.

Bonzai Intranet has a number of social features that are designed to promote engagement and collaboration within your Intranet. The social features are as follows:

Commenting

Bonzai Intranet provides users the ability to comment on various types of content such as news, events and generic pages. Bonzai Intranet supports two types of commenting experiences – Bonzai Intranet commenting and Yammer Embedded comments.

Bonzai Intranet inbuilt commenting feature

Bonzai Intranet commenting provides a simple mechanism for users that do not have, or cannot use, Yammer to comment on content in the context of a page as seen below:

Bonzai Intranet Inbuilt Commenting Feature

All comments are tied to the users authenticated account and are tracked along with the time for each comment.

Commenting capabilities include the ability to reply to a comment, delete my own comments and post multiple comments on the same article.

All comments are stored in a list on the site that the content is stored and are in no way tied to the native social features of SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 which are not receiving any additional investment from Microsoft.

Yammer embedded commenting

For customers on Office 365 or customers would like to user Yammer, Bonzai Intranet allows the ability to embed the Yammer functionality into Bonzai Intranet to provide commenting.

Using the embedded Yammer commenting in Bonzai Intranet is the same as the current embedded Yammer in Office 365 for Delve and the video portal.

Users can create comments, @mention users and have threaded conversations. These conversation, since they are stored in Yammer, can also be surfaced in other areas of Bonzai Intranet by embedding a Yammer feed into a page.

Yammer Embedded Commenting

Please note that since the comments are stored in Yammer that any Bonzai Intranet Web Parts or pages will not show the number of comments associated with the content.

Liking

Users can like and unlike content within Bonzai Intranet using the Like button on the actions area in each page.

Regardless of the commenting engine used the likes are stored within SharePoint and is visible on all web parts and pages:

Liking