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This is written for SharePoint Online, but the basics apply to SharePoint 2013/2016/2019 as well. Add a new User Profile Property Go to SharePoint Admin > User Profiles > Manage Users Propertiesthen click on New Property. Configure the basic settings such as names and type.
SharePointUrl: This is the URL of the SharePoint Server running the User Profile Service application, this is Central Admin URL. For example, http://KFAppServer:1234. SharePointCredential: The username and password of the account used to connect with SharePoint User Profile.
How to set up people search in SharePoint?
To set up people search, you must configure My Sites settings and configure crawling. You configure My Sites for a User Profile service application to specify the My Site host location and other settings. For more information, see Plan for My Sites in SharePoint Server and Configure My Site settings for the User Profile service application.
How to manage user profiles in the SharePoint Admin Center?
To add, edit, or delete an audience or an audience rule, go to the Manage Audiences page: Sign in to https://admin.microsoft.com as a global or SharePoint admin. In the left pane, under Admin centers, select SharePoint. In the left pane, select User profiles. Under People, select Manage Audiences.
Custom user profile properties can be edited to better suit business needs or they can be deleted when no longer needed. Perform the following procedure to create a user profile property. On Central Administration, in the Application Management section, click Manage service applications.
The Manage Profile Service page of a User Profile service application in SharePoint Server is a central location for managing available user profile properties and creating new properties.
How to create custom properties in user profile?
Because there are no remote APIs for creating custom properties in the user profile service, this step must be performed manually for each of the tenants where custom user profile properties are needed (this only needs to be done once per tenant). Only user profile properties that are not “allowed to be edited by end users” can be imported.