{"id":1913,"date":"2013-04-07T05:59:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T05:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2024-05-06T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:27:43","slug":"accessing-sharepoint-user-profile-service-fields-within-infopath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/sharepoint-user-profile-service-infopath\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessing SharePoint User Profile Service fields within InfoPath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accessing the SharePoint User Profile Service within InfoPath<\/h2>\n

Accessing User Profile information is quite useful from within InfoPath. \u00a0This is great for acquiring user fields such as title, phone number or any custom field created within the UPS (User Profile Service).<\/p>\n

Within InfoPath, first, define the data connection to the UPS:<\/p>\n

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Then select the appropriate method.\u00a0 User Profile Service is quite a rich web service with a lot of methods:<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what the user() value check looks like, on Form Load, that then is used to decide whether to change Views:<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how to get the property of a user.\u00a0 Decide the property to get:<\/p>\n

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Decide the account for which to get the property:<\/p>\n

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Trigger the method:<\/p>\n

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Then extract the result set!<\/p>\n

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Very useful. It works like a charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accessing the SharePoint User Profile Service within InfoPath Accessing User Profile information is quite useful from within InfoPath. \u00a0This is great for acquiring user fields such as title, phone number or any custom field created within the UPS (User Profile Service). Within InfoPath, first, define the data connection to the UPS: Then select the appropriate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infopath"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}