How to get with SharePoint client APIs all user profiles? - sharepoint

Question

For implementing a birthday's SharePoint 2013 app I need to get all user profiles from a site collection. For this purpose I'd like to use a (or multiple) client API(s). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163800.aspx#bkmk_APIversions.
Unfortunately I couldn't find in the APIs description an equivalent of Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles. There are in Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.PeopleManager two methods, GetUserProfilePropertiesFor and GetUserProfilePropertyFor, that only get a single user profile.
So my question is: how to get with CSOM, JSOM, REST (or any client side technology) all user profiles in site collection?

Answer 1

Since CSOM provides methods for operations related to people per user scope, you could retrieve all site users first using SP.Web.siteUsers property. and then use
SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager.getUserProfilePropertyFor Method to get BirthDay property as demonstrated below:
//Get Birthday User Profile Property for Site Users
function getUsersBirthdays(Success,Error) {
var clientContext = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();
var web = clientContext.get_web();
var users = web.get_siteUsers();
clientContext.load(users);
clientContext.executeQueryAsync(
function() {
var peopleManager = new SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager(clientContext);
var personsProperties = [];
for(var i = 0; i < users.get_count();i++)
{
var user = users.getItemAtIndex(i);
var personBirthday = peopleManager.getUserProfilePropertyFor(user.get_loginName(),'SPS-Birthday');
personsProperties.push(personBirthday);
}
clientContext.executeQueryAsync(
function() {
Success(personsProperties);
},
Error);
},
Error);
}
//Usage
var scriptbase = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + '/_layouts/15/';
$.getScript(scriptbase + 'SP.js', function () {
$.getScript(scriptbase + 'SP.UserProfiles.js', function () {
getUsersBirthdays(function(usersProperties){
for(var i = 0; i < usersProperties.length;i++)
{
console.log(usersProperties[i].get_value());
}
},
function(sender,args){
console.log(args.get_message());
});
});
});

Answer 2

This also should work for SP2013
function GetUsersGroups(){
ClientContext context = new Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext("http://SPSite");
GroupCollection groupCollection = context.Web.SiteGroups;
context.Load(groupCollection,
groups = > groups.Include(group = > group.Users));
context.ExecuteQuery();
foreach (Group group in groupCollection)
{
UserCollection userCollection = group.Users;
foreach (User user in userCollection)
{
MessageBox.Show("User Name: " + user.Title + " Email: " + user.Email + " Login: " + user.LoginName);
}
}
//Iterate the owners group
Group ownerGroup = context.Web.AssociatedOwnerGroup;
context.Load(ownerGroup);
context.Load(ownerGroup.Users);
context.ExecuteQuery();
foreach (User ownerUser in ownerGroup.Users)
{
MessageBox.Show("User Name: " + ownerUser.Title + " Email: " + ownerUser.Email + " Login: " + ownerUser.LoginName);
}
context.Dispose();
}