Access custom fields for a user object

Pavel Volgarev

Posted on 18/05/2011 17:07:46

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Hi Imar,

Try this:

using Dynamicweb.Modules.Common;
using Dynamicweb.Modules.Common.CustomFields;
using Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement;

// ......

// Getting the current Extranet user
User u = User.Current(PagePermissionLevels.Frontend);

foreach (CustomFieldValue val in u.CustomFieldValues)
{
    CustomField field = val.CustomField;
    object fieldValue = val.Value;
}

-- Pavel

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Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 18/05/2011 17:17:44

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Hi Pavel,

Thanks for your quick reply.

Is this DW 8? I can't convert Current().User (the Extranet class) to a User from UserManagement. Also, a CustomFieldValue doesn't have a Field property (but it does have a CustomField property with, for example, Name and SystemName properties....

Imar

Pavel Volgarev

Posted on 18/05/2011 17:22:58

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Hi Imar,

Sorry, I've corrected my previous post.

-- Pavel

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 18/05/2011 17:37:19

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Perfect. That worked great. I made two changes to your code. C# doesn't allow indexed properties, so I had to use get_Current instead. In addition, the User can be null when not logged in. Here's what I ended up with:

User user = User.get_Current(PagePermissionLevels.Frontend);
if (user != null)
{
foreach (CustomFieldValue val in user.CustomFieldValues)
{
CustomField field = val.CustomField;
object fieldValue = val.Value;
}
}

Thanks again,

Imar

Pavel Volgarev

Posted on 18/05/2011 17:39:29

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You're welcome ;-)

-- Pavel

Thaw Htun Lynn

Posted on 24/06/2016 12:00:59

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Hi There,

I am having a hard time trying to figure out how to access UserManagement:User.CustomFields loop in general use. for example calling it in master. can somebody help me with that issue? but it can definitly be call in page like onestepcheckout page.

@foreach(LoopItem l in GetLoop("UserManagement:User.CustomFields")){
       <p>@l.TemplateTags()</p>
       @l.GetString("CustomField.Value")//got my customfield value
   }

I have tried API as well.

@using Dynamicweb.Modules.Common.CustomFields
@using Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement

int i=Convert.ToInt32(GetGlobalValue("Global:Extranet.UserID"));
           Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement.User u = Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement.User.GetUserByID(i);
           var uname=u.Name;//i got name here
           foreach (LoopItem val in u.CustomFields)
           {
               String fieldValue= val.GetString("CustomField.Value");//got nothing here
           }

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 24/06/2016 12:21:15

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Hi Thaw

You do not have access to custom fields for users as global tags.

But you can make an instance of the user as you do - but you can not loop over a users custom fields using templating language

@using Dynamicweb.Modules.Common.CustomFields
@using Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement

int i=Convert.ToInt32(GetGlobalValue("Global:Extranet.UserID"));
           Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement.User u = Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement.User.GetUserByID(i);
           var uname=u.Name;//i got name here
           foreach (LoopItem val in u.CustomFields)
           {
               String fieldValue= val.GetString("CustomField.Value");//got nothing here
           }

So you have to do something like this:

@using Dynamicweb.Modules.Common.CustomFields
@using Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement

int i=Convert.ToInt32(GetGlobalValue("Global:Extranet.UserID"));
           Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement.User u = Dynamicweb.Modules.UserManagement.User.GetUserByID(i);
           var uname=u.Name;//i got name here
            foreach (CustomFieldValue val in u.CustomFieldValues)
{
    CustomField field = val.CustomField;
   object fieldValue = val.Value;
}

Thaw Htun Lynn

Posted on 24/06/2016 12:34:00

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Thank you Nicolai. I got what i want now. I didn't think val.Value as a string. I thought it's just an object.

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