Making Yammer Posts Part of the Routine

Friday, April 15, 2011
Making periodic tasks routine habits every morning and night is helpful not only for recording work time but for other things as well. You can write quick memos regarding each day's news, post new information on Twitter, and much more.

This "habitizing" is important for part-time staff who don't come into the office every day. As an expansion of the workflow introduced in "Recording Work Time in Workflows Can Work," let's add a task that enables workers to input their work days (the days they will be conducting the periodic fixed tasks) into the system. This means part-time workers can register their work schedule whenever their next month's shift comes out, or note their next scheduled day before leaving the office. (They can input the time as well.)


<Tasks>
0. Input Schedule, 1. Report Start of Work, 2. Confirm Start of Work, 3. Report End of Work, 4. Confirm End of Work


[Work Attendance <Microblogging Post>: "0. Input Schedule"screen]



Now, in the below workflow sample, workers can input "internal micro posts" in the same webform. When this field is inputted, the content is automatically posted to microblogging system such as Yammer. There's really nothing to it; it just sends an email.


<Tasks>
0. Input Schedule, 1. Report Start of Work, 2. Confirm Start of Work, 3. Report End of Work, 4. Confirm End of Work