{"id":26157,"date":"2010-01-12T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T01:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=26157"},"modified":"2013-03-13T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:12:31","slug":"profile-info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/marconi\/how-to\/profile-info\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Look Up User Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can access some BU directory profile information for any logged-in BU user if your form uses the Telegraph login tag:<\/p>\n

<form action=\"\/phpbin\/telegraph\/login\/index.php\"><\/code><\/p>\n

Available Profile Data<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Field Name<\/th>\nDescription<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
[profile:name]<\/td>\nUser’s full name (“Jones, Bob”)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[profile:department]<\/td>\nUser’s unit\/department name (if applicable)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[profile:deptid]<\/td>\nUser’s unit\/department number (if applicable)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[profile:title]<\/td>\nUser’s job title (if applicable)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[profile:alias]<\/td>\nUser’s BU login name.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[profile:office_phone]<\/td>\nUser’s office phone number (if applicable)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[profile:phone]<\/td>\nUser’s phone number (if applicable)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[profile:type]<\/td>\nUser’s affiliation with BU.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[profile:email]<\/td>\nUser’s email address.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Using these profile fields in output templates (e.g., for email and spreadsheets) requires converting them to regular field names:<\/p>\n

<directive action=\"field\" name=\"new-field-name<\/strong>\" value=\"profile-field-name<\/strong>\" \/><\/code><\/p>\n

    \n
  • Example:
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    You can access some BU directory profile information for any logged-in BU user if your form uses the Telegraph login tag: <form action=”\/phpbin\/telegraph\/login\/index.php”> Available Profile Data Field Name Description [profile:name] User’s full name (“Jones, Bob”) [profile:department] User’s unit\/department name (if applicable) [profile:deptid] User’s unit\/department number (if applicable) [profile:title] User’s job title (if applicable) [profile:alias] User’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"parent":26082,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26157"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63562,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26157\/revisions\/63562"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}