Yammer search messages

Searches for Yammer messages on a user's Yammer network. Private messages are not returned.

Note: This is an external action and may execute on servers running outside your data center Centralized locations used to house servers used by Nintex for remote storage, processing, or distribution of data. Nintex has a number of regional data centers available for Nintex for Office 365. For information about Nintex data centers and where your data center is located, contact your Nintex account or territory manager. region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue. For more information, see In-tenant and external actions.

Action settings

Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:

  • Double-click the action.
  • Click on the action and then click Configure.

See Action configuration window for more information.

Field Description
Authorizing user

Specify an email address to receive the authorization request for the action. External email addresses can be used.

  1. When the action runs, an email with the below content is sent to the email address selected for the Authorizing user.

    2. From: notification@nintexlive.com

    Subject: Contains phrases "Nintex Live" and "Request authorization".

    Contents: Contains links to authorize or deny the operation.

  2. When the link to provide authorization is clicked the user is prompted to do the following:
    1. Log in to the external service.
    2. Allow Nintex Live to access the external service.
    3. Option to stop receiving future authorization requests for the service.

If the authorizationis not provided for one of the following reasons, the workflow is suspended.

  • The authorizing user denies the authorization request by:
    • Clicking the deny link in the email received.
    • Not allowing Nintex live to access the external service.

    The workflow is suspended with the error "The service request has been denied".

  • Authorization is not provided within 7 days after the authorization request is sent.
    • The authorizing user never clicks the authorize link in the email message.
    • The authorizing user initiates the process by clicking the link but does not complete all steps. For example, the authorizing user logs in to the external service but does not complete the step to allow Nintex Live to access the external service.

    • The workflow is suspended with the error "The service request has expired".

Note: If the Yammer account accessed is a member of multiple Yammer networks, then a network for this operation can be specified.
Search query

Specify the search term. Messages containing this term will be returned.
Messages posted since

Specify a UTC date and time here to return messages posted after that date and time. If no value is provided, the 20 most recent messages are returned.

 
Message date

Specify a collection or dictionary variable that will store the UTC date and time that the message was posted.
Message URL

Specify a collection or dictionary variable that will store the URL of the message.
Message

Specify a collection or dictionary variable that will store the returned message.
User name

Specify a collection or dictionary variable that will store the message author’s user name.
User email address

Specify a collection or dictionary variable that will store the message author’s email address.
Result count

Specify a numeric variable that will store the number of results.
For more information about how to use Lookups in configuration fields, see Lookups in action configuration fields.