Create User Profile Properties in SharePoint
2010
User Profile properties are used to describe personal information about the
user. The IsMultiValued parameter in the object model indicates whether the
property is a multivalue property or not. However, just like the property data
type, this parameter is not modifiable, once it is set.
We can to create User Profile MultiValue Properties in SharePoint 2010 from
Central Administration.
Go to Central Administration - Application Management - Manage Service
Applications - User Profile Service Application.
Click on Manage User Properties
Click on New Property link to create a new custom user profile property.
Multivalue Separator:
Note: For more information on Multivalue Separator please refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.server.userprofiles.multivalueseparator.aspx.
Automation: Create User Profile Multivalue Properties in SharePoint 2010
using PowerShell
Here we will be seeing how to create the User Profile Multivalue Properties in
SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell.
Steps Involved:
- Create the input XML file which contains the inputs for creating User Profile
Multivalue properties.
- Create ps1 file which contains the script for creating User Profile
Multivalue properties.
CreateUserProfileMultivalueProperties.xml
<?xml
version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"
?>
<UserProfileMultivalueProperties>
<SiteURL>http://serverName:8080/</SiteURL>
<Property
Name="CustomMultivalue1"
DisplayName="CustomMultivalue1"
Length="25"
Privacy="Contacts"
PrivacyPolicy="mandatory"
IsVisibleOnEditor="$true"
IsVisibleOnViewer="$true"
IsMultivalued="$true"
Separator="Comma"></Property>
<Property
Name="CustomMultivalue2"
DisplayName="CustomMultivalue2"
Length="25"
Privacy="Contacts"
PrivacyPolicy="mandatory"
IsVisibleOnEditor="$true"
IsVisibleOnViewer="$true"
IsMultivalued="$true"
Separator="Comma"></Property>
<Property
Name="CustomMultivalue3"
DisplayName="CustomMultivalue3"
Length="25"
Privacy="Contacts"
PrivacyPolicy="mandatory"
IsVisibleOnEditor="$true"
IsVisibleOnViewer="$true"
IsMultivalued="$true"
Separator="Comma"></Property>
<Property
Name="CustomMultivalue4"
DisplayName="CustomMultivalue4"
Length="25"
Privacy="Contacts"
PrivacyPolicy="mandatory"
IsVisibleOnEditor="$true"
IsVisibleOnViewer="$true"
IsMultivalued="$true"
Separator="Comma"></Property>
</UserProfileMultivalueProperties>
CreateUserProfileMultivalueProperties.ps1
#----------------Get the xml
file---------------------------------------------------------------
[xml]$xmlData=Get-Content
"C:\Users\Desktop\ContentSources\CreateUserProfileMultivalueProperties.xml"
#----------------Create
new custom User Profile Multivalue
properties---------------------------------------------
function
CreateUserProfileMultivalueProperties()
{
$site
=
Get-SPSite
$xmlData.UserProfileMultivalueProperties.SiteURL
$context
=
Get-SPServiceContext($site)
$upcm
=
New-Object
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileConfigManager($context);
$ppm
=
$upcm.ProfilePropertyManager
$cpm
=
$ppm.GetCoreProperties()
$ptpm
=
$ppm.GetProfileTypeProperties([Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ProfileType]::User)
$psm
=
[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ProfileSubTypeManager]::Get($context)
$ps
=
$psm.GetProfileSubtype([Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ProfileSubtypeManager]::GetDefaultProfileName
[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ProfileType]::User))
$pspm
=
$ps.Properties
$xmlData.UserProfileMultivalueProperties.Property
|
ForEach-Object{
$property
=
$pspm.GetPropertyByName($_.Name)
if($property
-eq
$null)
{
$Privacy=$_.Privacy
$PrivacyPolicy=$_.PrivacyPolicy
$Separator=$_.Separator
$coreProp
=
$cpm.Create($false)
$coreProp.Name
=
$_.Name
$coreProp.DisplayName
=
$_.DisplayName
$coreProp.Type
=
[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PropertyDataType]::StringMultiValue
$coreProp.Separator=[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.MultiValueSeparator]::$Separator
$coreProp.IsMultivalued=$_.IsMultivalued
$coreProp.Length
=
$_.Length
$cpm.Add($coreProp)
$profileTypeProp
=
$ptpm.Create($coreProp);
$profileTypeProp.IsVisibleOnEditor
=
$true;
$profileTypeProp.IsVisibleOnViewer
=
$true;
$ptpm.Add($profileTypeProp)
$profileSubTypeProp
=
$pspm.Create($profileTypeProp);
$profileSubTypeProp.DefaultPrivacy
=
[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.Privacy]::$Privacy
$profileSubTypeProp.PrivacyPolicy
=
[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PrivacyPolicy]::$PrivacyPolicy
$pspm.Add($profileSubTypeProp)
write-host
-f
green
$_.Name
multivalue
property
is
created
successfully
}
else
{
write-host
-f
green
$_.Name
multivalue
property
is
created
successfully
}
}
}
#----------------Calling the
function---------------------------------------------
CreateUserProfileMultivalueProperties
CreateUserProfileMultivalueProperties
Run the Script:
- Go to Start.
- Click on All Programs.
- Click on Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Products and then click on SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
- Run the
C:\Users\Desktop\ContentSources\CreateUserProfileMultivalueProperties.ps1
Output:
And in the Central Administration you could see the newly created custom
multivalue properties in Custom properties section.