Wednesday 1 June 2016

SharePoint Online: Get UserProfile Properties with REST API Batching

In my previous post SharePoint 2013: Get UserProfile Properties with REST APIwe saw how to fetch SharePoint UserProfile properties with the REST API.

The only thing missing in that post was, at the time there was no way to get Multiple UserProfile Properties for a Specific User i.e. if you had an account name of a user and wanted to fetch multiple custom or default UserProfile properties, you could not do that in a single REST call. You would have to resort to either making multiple REST calls using the GetUserProfilePropertyFor function, or you would have to use the JavaScript Client Object Model (JSOM)

When I wrote that post, SharePoint Online did not support REST API batching. Since then, it has been implemented and as a result we can get multiple Custom/OOB User Profile properties in a single REST call.

Here is my code showing how to do it:

Here are some other great resources on SharePoint REST API Batching:

Batch Processing (OData Version 3.0)

Part 1 - SharePoint REST API Batching - Understanding Batching Requests

Make batch requests with the REST APIs

Thanks for reading!

2 comments:

Akshay Nangare said...

Is it possible to Get multiple User Profiles Properties with REST API Batching in SharePoint 2013 On- premise

Vardhaman Deshpande said...

Hi Akshay,

Unfortunately, as far as I know REST API batching is only supported in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online.