Additional Fields in User Profile

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SchoolsICT Limited

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Jul 20, 2011, 5:23:20 PM7/20/11

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I have have seen it hinted at it being in the provisioning api, but i haven't found an example of being able to set additional fields in a userprofile.

We would like to include a unique id in the user profile when we provision an account so it is linked to our internal system id.

Do anyone know of an example of setting additional field of a user profile?

Jay Lee

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Jul 21, 2011, 2:23:38 PM7/21/11

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Provisoning API only handles username, firstname and lastname, all other contact fields for the user profile are set via the Profile API:

http://code.google.com/apis/apps/profiles/developers_guide_protocol.html

the API is very similar to the Shared Contacts API, the main difference being that User Profiles cannot be added or deleted, they simply exist for all your users.

Do note that there is no way to hide specific fields from users so if uploaded by the Profile API, the unique ID would be viewable by all users on the domain (unless the specific user is hidden from the directory via the control panel but that would hide the user completly).