Adding Custom Attributes to the Employee Details Pane

11/29/2020
Applicable to: Employee Directory

Introduction

Vitextra Employee Directory web part since version 3.2.15 supports custom attributes.
You can add attributes both for User Profiles and Azure AD.

Custom Attributes

To manage custom attributes, open the web part configuration page and select Custom Columns under Data Source heading:

Web Part Configuration Pane

Web Part Configuration Pane

In the data editor, type in additional attributes scheme name and caption:

Adding Custom Attributes for Azure AD

Adding Custom Attributes for Azure AD

Click the Save button and republish the page.

Additional attributes show up in the employee details pane:

Custom attributes on the details pane

Custom attributes on the details pane

Schema name of custom fields depends on the data source the web part uses.

Azure AD

In the case of Azure AD data source, available list of user attributes defined in User Resource Type

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Because the Employee Directory uses Microsoft Graph API to get data from Azure AD, only properties of the user resource type are available for use.

Not all properties of the user resource type available support select operation. In case you refer to unsupported property, the following error message may appear:

Not Supported Error

Not Supported Error

User Profiles

In the case of User Profiles used as a data source, you can reference Managed Properties as custom attributes for the details pane.

Adding Custom Attributes for User Profiles

Adding Custom Attributes for User Profiles

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See How To Create Custom Searchable User Profile Property guide for more details.

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