User details from people picker

GarethJ

• Created August 16, 2017 11:08

Hi, I have a question about picking up user details from the name of a user in a people picker control on my form.

 

The user context section on the expression builder allows me to pull in loads of details about the currently logged in user such as job title, department etc.  However, I want to display the same information but regarding a user who has been entered into a people picker control.  From the people picker field I only seem to be able to pickup the email value and nothing else from the user profile.

 

Is this possible, and if so, how can I display details such as job title from the user in the people picker field?

 

Thanks for your help in advance.

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  AdisJ

  • August 17, 2017 14:29

  Hello Gareth Jayne,

  retrieving user profiles is not supported directly from the expression builder, due to the possible permission/security issues - users who will work with the solution, will need to have appropriate permissions to read those user profiles. Which is not always given.

   

  Anyway, there is a kind of "official" workaround, using JavaScript and calculated expressions in skybow Rich Forms / skybow Solution studio, which is described here:

   

  Selecting User Profile values from the people picker fields 

  Please note that your users will *still* need to have proper permissions to read those profile values. 

  Best regards, and let me know if I can help with anything else,

  Adis

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  GarethJ

  • August 17, 2017 17:28

  That's great thanks Adis.  Is there a way of using this to populate multiple fields relating to a user field?  In my form I want to display job title, department and office for the user.  I've tried entering the specified code in each of the three fields (making sure the field names are amended for each one) but it seems that only one field can be calculated in this way.  For example if I set the code in the department field only this works but then the other two fields don't update if I enter thee code into them.  If I remove the code from Department and then only enter it into Job Title, the job title field populates but not the other two if I enter code into them.

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  AdisJ

  • August 17, 2017 17:44

  Hi Gareth Jayne 

   

  yes, that should not pose the problem, just repeat the setting block in "onsuccess" multiple times. Something like this. Repeat the the 3-lines block as often as you need. 

   

  Make sure to:

  • Rename "deparmentText" variable and change the property name ("Department") in the line 1;
  • Rename "departmentController" variable and change the "DepartmentField" (internal name of the field where we want to set the value) in the line 2;
  • Change "departmentController" and "deparmentText" to new variable names in the line 3. 

   

  It should look like:

   

  function onRequestSuccess() {
  
      // Get a DEPARTMENT property from the UserProfileProperties property.
      var departmentText = personProperties.get_userProfileProperties()["Department"];
      var departmentController = jQuery('span.ms-formbody[fieldname="DepartmentField"]').closest('.ard-formfield').data('Controller');
      departmentController.InstanseData.SetValue(departmentText);
  
      // Get a MANAGER property from the UserProfileProperties property.
      var managerText = personProperties.get_userProfileProperties()["Manager"];
      var managerController = jQuery('span.ms-formbody[fieldname="ManagerField"]').closest('.ard-formfield').data('Controller');
      managerController.InstanseData.SetValue(managerText);
      
      window.ArdUserInProgress = false;
  }

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