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What are user properties and user profile properties in SharePoint? User properties and user profile properties provide information about SharePoint users, such as display name, email, title, and other business and personal information.
How to retrieve user profile properties in JavaScript?
(To retrieve the value for only one user profile property, use the getUserProfilePropertyFor method.) Get the values from the returned array of property values. Paste the following code between the script tags that you added to the UserProfiles.aspx file in the Create the application page procedure.
Can you change the type of a profile in SharePoint?
Some elements of profile properties, such as the Type element, are unavailable because they can’t be edited. To define these elements, create a new property. The exception is the Source Data Connection property. It’s predefined in SharePoint and can’t be changed.
How to create a user profile in SharePoint?
In the SharePoint Customization Wizard dialog box, enter the URL to your target SharePoint site, choose Deploy as a farm solution, and then choose the Finish button. In Solution Explorer, open the shortcut menu for the UserProfilesJSOM project, and then add a SharePoint “Layouts” mapped folder.
In Solution Explorer, open the shortcut menu for the UserProfilesJSOM project, and then add a SharePoint “Layouts” mapped folder. In the Layouts folder, open the shortcut menu for theUserProfilesJSOM folder, and then add a new SharePoint application page namedUserProfiles.aspx.
SharePoint client object model (CSOM) provides lots of APIs to retrieve, update, and manage data in SharePoint. There are limitations to what can be done client-side compared to server-side, say for example: You cannot access the FARM level properties, you can get/set only the properties at the web application level.
Do you have to use client object model to change user profile?
If you want to change other user profile properties, you must use the server object model. The client version of the UserProfile object doesn’t contain all of the user properties as the server-side version. However, the client-side version does provide the methods for creating a personal site for the current user.