User Profile Service in SharePoint 2013

Introduction

Welcome to a new tip of User profile Service in SharePoint 2013. Today, I will be showing you a beautiful way to get Current logged in User’s details on a page using JavaScript.

So let’s do it:

• Create a new Page
• Add a Content Editor web part
• Place the below code in it.

Code

-----The following HTML code is used to display the Current logged in User name on a Content Editor Web Part.
Name- <span id="username"></span><br/>

---- The following code calls the sp service and append the HTML code replacing by the value.

<script type="text/javascript"> 
  var thisUserAccount ;         
    $(document).ready(function() {
    thisUserAccount= $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser({
    fieldNames: ["Title","Department","Email"],
    debug: false
});
 
var nametag="<span id=\"username\">"+thisUserAccount.Title+"</span>";
 
$('#username').replaceWith(nametag);
 
}   
    ); </script>

This is the result on the Home page:

As you can see, the name comes up on the page load of the site. In a similar way, you can have the following attributes like Department, Email, etc. to your page.

FIELD NAME	INTERNAL NAME
Account	Name
Name	Title
Work e-mail	Email
About me	Notes
Picture	Picture
Department	Department
Job Title	JobTitle
SIP Address	SipAddress
First name	FirstName
Last Name	LastName
Work phone	WorkPhone
Office	Office
User name	UserName
Web site	WebSite
Responsibilities	SPResponsibility

You just have to make a change like:

• thisUserAccount.Title
• thisUserAccount.Email
• thisUserAccount.Department

in the code and hence the purpose will be served.

Till then, keep learning.

Cheers!