How to: Change Profile Properties
Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010
This code example retrieves and changes three types of profile properties: a core property, a profile type property, and a profile subtype property.
Replace servername and Hobbies with actual values before running the code example. Also add references to the following in your Microsoft Visual Studio project:
Microsoft.Office.Server
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles
Microsoft.SharePoint
System.Web
Example
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Office.Server;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration;
using Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using System.Web;
namespace UserProfilesApp
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("https://servername"))
{
SPServiceContext context = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);
ProfileSubtypeManager psm = ProfileSubtypeManager.Get(context);
ProfileSubtype ps = psm.GetProfileSubtype(ProfileSubtypeManager.GetDefaultProfileName(ProfileType.User));
ProfileSubtypePropertyManager pspm = ps.Properties;
ProfileSubtypeProperty p = pspm.GetPropertyByName("Hobbies");
p.CoreProperty.Separator = MultiValueSeparator.Semicolon;
p.CoreProperty.Commit();
p.TypeProperty.IsVisibleOnViewer = true;
p.TypeProperty.Commit();
p.PrivacyPolicy = PrivacyPolicy.OptIn;
p.Commit();
}
}
}
}
See Also
Tasks
How to: Create Multivalue Properties
How to: Set Multiple Values to a Multivalue Property