Create User Profile Properties in SharePoint
2010
User Profile properties are used to describe personal information about the
user. We can to create User Profile 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.
Automation: Create User Profile Properties in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell
Here we will be seeing how to create the User Profile Properties in SharePoint
2010 using PowerShell.
Steps Involved:
- Create the input XML file which contains
the inputs for creating User Profile properties.
- Create ps1 file which contains the script
for creating User Profile properties.
CreateUserProfileProperties.xml
<?xml
version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"
?>
<UserProfileProperties>
<SiteURL>http://serverName:8080/</SiteURL>
<Property
Name="Custom1"
DisplayName="Custom1"
Type="string"
Length="25"
Privacy="Contacts"
PrivacyPolicy="mandatory"
IsVisibleOnEditor="$true"
IsVisibleOnViewer="$true"></Property>
<Property
Name="Custom2"
DisplayName="Custom2"
Type="string"
Length="25"
Privacy="Contacts"
PrivacyPolicy="mandatory"
IsVisibleOnEditor="$true"
IsVisibleOnViewer="$true"></Property>
<Property
Name="Custom3"
DisplayName="Custom3"
Type="string"
Length="25"
Privacy="Contacts"
PrivacyPolicy="mandatory"
IsVisibleOnEditor="$true"
IsVisibleOnViewer="$true"></Property>
<Property
Name="Custom4"
DisplayName="Custom4"
Type="string"
Length="25"
Privacy="Contacts"
PrivacyPolicy="mandatory"
IsVisibleOnEditor="$true"
IsVisibleOnViewer="$true"></Property>
</UserProfileProperties>
CreateUserProfileProperties.ps1
#----------------Get the xml
file---------------------------------------------------------------
[xml]$xmlData=Get-Content
"C:\Users\Desktop\ContentSources\CreateUserProfileProperties.xml"
#----------------Create
new custom User Profile properties---------------------------------------------
function
CreateUserProfileProperties()
{
$site
=
Get-SPSite
$xmlData.UserProfileProperties.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.UserProfileProperties.Property
|
ForEach-Object{
$property
=
$pspm.GetPropertyByName($_.Name)
if($property
-eq
$null)
{
$Privacy=$_.Privacy
$PrivacyPolicy=$_.PrivacyPolicy
$coreProp
=
$cpm.Create($false)
$coreProp.Name
=
$_.Name
$coreProp.DisplayName
=
$_.DisplayName
$coreProp.Type
=
$_.Type
$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
yellow
$_.Name
property
is
created
successfully
}
else
{
write-host
-f
yellow
$_.Name
property
already
exists
}
}
}
#----------------Calling the
function---------------------------------------------
CreateUserProfileProperties
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\CreateUserProfileProperties.ps1
Output:
And in the Central Administration you could see the newly created custom
properties in Custom properties section.