Employee Profile
Clicking on any person in TeamBook Employee Directory opens their profile panel — a detailed side panel or modal that surfaces everything you need to know about that colleague in one place.
What’s in the profile panel
Header
- Large profile photo (or initial avatar if no photo is set)
- Presence status badge (if enabled)
- Display name and pronouns (if set in Entra ID)
- Job title and Department
- Office location
Contact actions
Prominent action buttons let you get in touch instantly:
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| Send email | Opens a new email to this person in Outlook |
| Teams chat | Opens a 1:1 Teams conversation |
| Call | Initiates a Teams voice call (if configured) |
Contact details
- Work email address
- Phone number (work / mobile, if populated in Entra ID)
- Office location
Reporting structure
- Reports to — their direct manager, shown as a clickable card (click to open the manager’s profile)
- Direct reports — a list of people who report to this person, each clickable
Tip: You can navigate through the org hierarchy by clicking through managers and direct reports without leaving the profile panel.
About / Skills
If the person has filled in their About Me or Skills fields in their Microsoft 365 profile (SharePoint User Profile or Viva Engage), these appear here as well.
Availability indicator
The profile panel shows a prominent availability card with:
- Current Teams status (Available, Busy, Away, etc.)
- Out-of-office message (if they have one set in Outlook)
- Current local time (based on their time zone from Entra ID)
Favouriting from the profile
The star icon in the profile panel lets you add or remove this person from your favourites without going back to the directory. See Favourites & Presence for more.
Data sources
All profile data is read from Microsoft Graph:
| Field | Graph source |
|---|---|
| Name, photo, title, department | users endpoint |
| Manager, direct reports | users/{id}/manager, users/{id}/directReports |
| Presence | communications/presences |
| About Me / Skills | SharePoint User Profile (via Graph) |