Wow.. Christmas really came and went.. My last post was back in november when I had just returned from Gran Canaria after a nice relaxing week in the sun.<\/p>\n
After that short interlude, I had my first speaking engagement at a company seminar in front of 100 delegates. I was incredibly nervous and got a little lost during my presentation, but held it in check enough to deliver the 1 hour demo on SharePoint and the collaborative advantages of working with Microsoft Lync and Exchange.<\/p>\n
Since then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also been working on some Facebook and Twitter integration for SharePoint, which turned out to be not as straight forward as I hoped. Aiming to get some of this written up in the new year and posted here as certainly the Facebook API is not very .Net friendly at all!<\/p>\n
Finally I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also been investigating the possibility of using the User profile service as a means of storing information about employees that could be synced with external systems such as SAP. in this example I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking at storing an employees Annual Holiday entitlement, and then updating or reading that value through the object model. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s during this process that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come across a disturbing issue with updating a profile that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s marked as Admin editable only with quite a hacky workaround. (Found at http:\/\/wss.boman.biz\/Lists\/Posts\/Post.aspx?ID=23<\/a>)<\/p>\n So first off, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made the property available by creating it to the User Properties through Central Admin. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a simple integer property called HolidayEntitlement. At present I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not importing the value from anywhere as I intended just pushing a value in from code. The key thing here though is that the user must NOT be able to edit this themselves. So, when we create the property, we make sure that the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u009dDo not allow users to edit values for this property\u00e2\u20ac\u009d option is well and truly ticked!<\/p>\n With the property created, a short section of code gets the User profile for the current user, and then iterates through the properties showing their name and values:- (outputzone is just an ASP:Label defined in the user control so that I can write quickly to the page output.)<\/p>\n\n
SPUser currUser = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser;\r\nSPServiceContext serviceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(SPContext.Current.Site);\r\nUserProfileManager upm = new<\/span> UserProfileManager(serviceContext);\r\nUserProfile up = upm.GetUserProfile(currUser.LoginName);<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n