Edit User Profile List In SharePoint

This blog will help you learn how to access the hidden User profile list and edit it.

In this blog, we will see how to edit the default User Profile List. By default, SharePoint does not provide a direct way to edit this hidden list.

Accessing the User Profile List 

https://RKSite.com/teams/RKDevSite/_catalogs/users/detail.aspx 

<<Site Url>>/_catalogs/users/detail.aspx

Steps to edit the User Profile List

1. Get the GUID of the list.
2. Form the URL to edit as a normal list.

Step 1

The below CSOM application code will help you in getting the GUID of the User Profile List. Create a console application and add CSOM NuGet package and replace the below code in Program.cs file.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
namespace UserProfileList {
    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
            string siteUrl = "https://RKSite.com/teams/RKDevSite";
            using(ClientContext context = new ClientContext(siteUrl)) {
                SecureString securePassword = GetSecureString( << Password >> );
                context.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials( << UserName >> , securePassword);
                List oList = context.Web.SiteUserInfoList;
                CamlQuery camlQuery = new CamlQuery();
                context.Load(oList);
                context.ExecuteQuery();
                Console.WriteLine(oList.Id);
            }
        }
        public static SecureString GetSecureString(string userPassword) {
            SecureString securePassword = new SecureString();
            foreach(char c in userPassword.ToCharArray()) {
                securePassword.AppendChar(c);
            }
            return securePassword;
        }
    }
}

Step 2

Once you get the GUID, build the URL as below.

https://RKSite.com/teams/RKDevSite/_layouts/15/listedit.aspx?List=77dffdaa-e518-1234-a1e4-8bb568fa22b6 

<<SiteUrl>> /_layouts/15/listedit.aspx?List=<<ListGUID>>

Here, the highlighted code is List GUID. Hope this blog will help you in coding.