Access User Profile Custom Fields

Posted by Community Admin on 26-Sep-2013 00:00

I am looking for a way to access custom fields in a user profile. I have created a new User Profile Type called Customer and now have added a custom number field called OfficeID. I would like to be able to get the user and the values of the custom fields. The following is the code I have tried based on previous posts, but office returns 0 when the value should be 1. Any suggestions?

UserProfileManager profileManager = UserProfileManager.GetManager();
UserManager userManager = UserManager.GetManager();

var myType = "Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Model.Customer";

if (UserProfilesHelper.ProfileTypeExists(myType))

varprofType = TypeResolutionService.ResolveType(myType);
var profName = UserProfilesHelper.GetUserProfileTypeNames().Where(u => u.Contains("Customer")).SingleOrDefault();
user = userManager.GetUser(userId);
var userProfile = profileManager.CreateProfile(user, profName);
officeID = userProfile.GetValue("OfficeID").ToString();

Posted by Community Admin on 30-Sep-2013 00:00

Hello Michael,

To get the field value you could use the following method:

public string GetUserProfileFieldByUserId(Guid userId, UserManager userManager)

var myType = "Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Model.customer";

if (UserProfilesHelper.ProfileTypeExists(myType))

var profileManager = UserProfilesHelper.GetUserProfileManager<SitefinityProfile>();

var profile = profileManager.GetUserProfile(userId, myType);

var fieldValue = profile.GetValue("OfficeID").ToString();

return fieldValue;

return null;

and use it for example with the following code:

UserManager userManager = UserManager.GetManager();

var userId = userManager.GetUsers().Where(uid => uid.UserName == "Username").FirstOrDefault().Id;

var value = GetUserProfileFieldByUserId(userId, userManager);

To use GetValue and SetValue you need to add the following reference:

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Model;

More information could be found in the following article.
Regards,
Svetoslav Manchev
Telerik

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Posted by Community Admin on 30-Sep-2013 00:00

var myType = "Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Model.customer";

Thank you for your help. The error I was making was in the case. I was using Customer vs. customer which is the name in code.

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