David, always happy to help fellow MOSSers..
Unfortunately I do not have a blog, although it's perhaps time to start! So if you have any suggestions for a good blog space let me know. In the mean time I'm happy to provide any assistance via email. The screen shot I sent you, was just one of two custom web parts I developed to provide the functionality for a user to edit his/her profile. 1) User Directory Web Part This web part displays all users from the SharePoint user profile store in a hierarchical tree view based on the organisations social hierarchy (who a person reports too) and incorporates the "presence" icon as seen in MOSS. It has two views: Social Hierarchy View which displays users from the top manager down in the organisation, and Alphabetical View, displays users grouped into folders by first alphabet character of their name. This web part allows a user to find people in the organisation and to select a user to edit. 2) User Directory Editor Web Part This web part was designed to be used with the first web part in a connected way, when a user is selected in the User Directory Web Part the account name is sent to this web part to display the users details. A user is always displayed in View mode first, and only those profile properties for which the current user has permission to view will be displayed. If the user has rights to edit any properties of the selected users profile, the Edit button will be enabled and they will be able to edit fields for which they have permission. This web part also allows customisation of permissions by a site administrator, that is it allows an administrator to define a list of profile properties that a Manager is allowed to edit for other users. It also allows you to select a SharePoint Group and give it permission to edit other users profiles for selected properties. This can be useful in an organisation where a specific business unit has responsibility for maintaining specific user information for the department as users start/exit and move around a department. I almost forgot to mention but this web part also has the ability to sync changes back to Active Directory, in fact it should work with any LDAP directory as it uses the same Primary DataSource Connection configured for the SSP in Central Admin. It does not support updates of properties mapped to a secondary datasource such as the BDC. The first web part took me about 4-5 weeks development effort. The second web part was not a trivial task and has taken me about 3 months effort as well as another developer I am training in MOSS development about 3 weeks. Hope that helps for now, and I will provide some insights into some of the more interesting development issues I encountered while developing this web part some time soon. I'll be in Sydney next week on a training course so might try to blog about my encounters during this time. Regards, Justin Kleyn Solution Architect | MOSS Speacialist | Senior Consultant - Software Development KAZ ACT | KAZ Group Pty Ltd 19-25 Moore Street | Turner ACT 2612 (02) 6219 0910 | 0439 472 998 | Fax: (02) 6249 1620 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | www.kaz-group.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- This communication may contain confidential information and/or copyright material of KAZ Group Pty Ltd ABN 25 002 124 405 and its related bodies corporate. It may also be the subject of legal professional privilege. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not keep, forward, copy, use, save or rely on this communication and any such action is unauthorised and prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to this e-mail to notify the sender of its incorrect delivery, and then delete both it and your reply. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crabbe, David Sent: Friday, 4 April 2008 1:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Custom Edit Details (User Profile Properties) page on MySites Thanks Justin, I really appreciate your reply. The custom profile editor you have created looks good. Can you please give me an indication of how long it took you to develop? Any chance the gotcha's and hidden gems involved in its development can be shared? Do you have a blog? :) David Crabbe Consultant Web Solutions Team Fujitsu Australia Ltd T: +61 8 9268 1505 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kleyn, Justin Sent: Friday, 4 April 2008 7:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Custom Edit Details (User Profile Properties) page on MySites Hello David, What you are trying to achieve is not possible using the out-of-the-box functionality, here's why: The EditProfile.aspx page uses a SharePoint control (ProfileEditor.ascx) to display the user profile properties, this control does very little other than set the following properties of the base control it inherits from: public ProfileEditor <http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://Microsoft .SharePoint.Portal:12.0.0.0:71e9bce111e9429c/Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal .WebControls.ProfileEditor/.ctor()> () { base.ShowWarningIcon <http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://Microsoft .SharePoint.Portal:12.0.0.0:71e9bce111e9429c/Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal .WebControls.ProfileUI/property:ShowWarningIcon:Boolean> = true; base.RestrictUserEditable <http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://Microsoft .SharePoint.Portal:12.0.0.0:71e9bce111e9429c/Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal .WebControls.ProfileUI/property:RestrictUserEditable:Boolean> = true; base.MoveEditablePropertiesToTop <http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://Microsoft .SharePoint.Portal:12.0.0.0:71e9bce111e9429c/Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal .WebControls.ProfileUI/property:MoveEditablePropertiesToTop:Boolean> = true; base.IsEditMode <http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://Microsoft .SharePoint.Portal:12.0.0.0:71e9bce111e9429c/Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal .WebControls.ProfileUI/property:IsEditMode:Boolean> = true; base.FirstPageElementId <http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/Default.aspx?Target=code://Microsoft .SharePoint.Portal:12.0.0.0:71e9bce111e9429c/Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal .WebControls.ProfileUI/property:FirstPageElementId:String> = "HBN100"; } The base control is called ProfileUI.ascx and it is this control that does all the work. In fact the following controls are all derived from this base control: Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileAdminEditor Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileAdminNew Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileEditor Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileViewer These controls are merely wrappers for the base class that initialise the properties of the base class to setup it's behaviour such as whether to display in Edit mode or View mode. The reason why you will not be able to modify this base classes behaviour to display profile properties separately for each section, is because it has a single method called "LoadProfileTable" that loads the profile properties into an html table for display on the page. It loads all profile properties into the table depending on the properties that have been set by it's derived class. Unfortunately this method is marked as internal and cannot be overridden thus we are stuck with the default behaviour given to us by MOSS. The only option available is to write your own custom code to display and edit user profile properties, in fact I am just finalising the development of a custom web part that does just that. Let me say that this is no trivial task as there are many factors to consider to replicate the same behaviour in regards to maintaining the same security that MOSS performs. One of the challenges with developing a web part to edit user profile properties was deciding which controls to use to display the property to be edited, such as a Person, Url, Multivalue, Choice types etc. In my efforts, I have uncovered many hidden gems (inbuilt SharePoint controls) that can be used to provide the same look & feel and behaviour as the MOSS edit screens. I have attached a screen shot of our custom web part that displays profile properties for each section in a separate tab. Regards, Justin Kleyn Solution Architect | MOSS Speacialist | Senior Consultant - Software Development KAZ ACT | KAZ Group Pty Ltd 19-25 Moore Street | Turner ACT 2612 (02) 6219 0910 | 0439 472 998 | Fax: (02) 6249 1620 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | www.kaz-group.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- This communication may contain confidential information and/or copyright material of KAZ Group Pty Ltd ABN 25 002 124 405 and its related bodies corporate. It may also be the subject of legal professional privilege. If you are not an intended recipient, you must not keep, forward, copy, use, save or rely on this communication and any such action is unauthorised and prohibited. 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