Advanced Employee
Directory Web Part
Multiple Enterprise Clients
The Challenge
Profile Data Scattered, Org Chart Perpetually Out of Date
Across multiple enterprise clients, the same problem surfaced repeatedly: employees had no unified, searchable way to find their colleagues. Contact information lived in email signatures, Teams profiles, and local spreadsheets maintained by individual departments. No single source of truth existed.
When employees needed to find a colleague's phone number, role, department, or manager, they would either email HR, ask a colleague, or search through Teams manually. The org chart, where it existed at all, was a PowerPoint file updated quarterly and immediately outdated the moment anyone joined, left, or changed roles.
The data was already in Azure AD — but there was no consumer-friendly way to surface it on the intranet. Clients needed a single, deployable SPFx web part that would pull all profile data from Microsoft Graph in real time and give employees a fast, filterable directory experience on their SharePoint intranet.
No unified employee search — finding a colleague's contact or role required multiple manual steps
Profile data scattered across HR systems, email signatures, and Teams — no single source of truth
Org chart was a static PowerPoint — outdated within days of any personnel change, never maintained
Admin burden — any directory update required manual maintenance by someone in IT or HR
The Solution
SPFx Directory Web Part with Live Graph API Search
Akshara Technologies built a reusable SPFx employee directory web part powered entirely by Microsoft Graph API. All employee data — name, job title, department, office location, phone, manager, and direct reports — is pulled live from Azure AD on every search, with no local caching of stale data and no admin maintenance required.
The web part renders a searchable, filterable grid of employee profile cards. As users type in the search box, results filter in real time across name, role, department, and skill tags. Department filter dropdowns are generated dynamically from the actual Azure AD data. Each profile card shows the employee's photo, title, department, and direct contact links — clicking a card opens a rich profile panel with manager chain and direct reports.
Direct Teams chat and email links on each card mean employees can initiate contact without leaving the directory. The web part was built as a fully configurable SPFx package — ready to deploy to any SharePoint tenant in minutes, with property pane controls for filtering scope and display options.
What Was Delivered
Measured Outcomes
5 Enterprise Tenants, Zero Admin Overhead
Project Screenshots
The Employee Directory in Action
Technology Stack
Tools & Technologies Used
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