Favourites & Presence
TeamBook Employee Directory helps you stay connected to the colleagues you work with most. The Favourites feature lets you bookmark people for instant access, while Presence gives you a live view of who is available right now.
Favouriting a colleague
Every person card in the directory shows a star icon in the top-right corner.
- Click the star to add that person to your favourites.
- Click the star again to remove them.
Favourited colleagues are:
- Visually highlighted with a filled gold star
- Shown first in the directory list so you can find them instantly
- Persisted in your browser’s local storage (no SharePoint list required)
Viewing your favourites
At the top of the directory, when you have at least one favourite saved, a “My Favourites” row or filter button appears. Click it to show only your starred people. Click again to return to the full directory.
Understanding presence
When presence is enabled by your administrator, a coloured dot is overlaid on each person’s profile photo. This reflects their current status in Microsoft Teams:
| Indicator | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 🟢 Green | Available — online and active |
| 🟡 Yellow | Away — idle, “Be right back”, or out of office |
| 🔴 Red | Busy, In a meeting, or Do not disturb |
| ⚫ Grey | Offline or presence unavailable |
Presence is fetched live from the Microsoft Graph Presence API and refreshes periodically while the page is open.
Presence in the profile panel
When you open a person’s full profile, their current presence status is also displayed there in larger format alongside their contact details.
Privacy and permissions
- Presence data is read-only — TeamBook Employee Directory cannot change your status.
- The
Presence.Read.AllGraph permission must be approved by your tenant admin for presence to function. - If presence is disabled or the permission is not granted, the status indicator is simply hidden — the rest of the directory works as normal.