MySite How to find account name of users profile that is currently being displayed

Question

I am working on a webpart that will sit on the profile page of mysite.

This web part needs the accountname of the user being looked at.

The displayed url is mysite/person.aspx.  To my understanding the actual url is

mysite/person.aspx?accountname=DOMAIN\Username

It appears when you look at another profile it is in this format.

Currently to solve this the only thing I can think of something like this.

string url;
string urlformat = "{0}/person.aspx?accountname={1}";
if(Request.QueryString["accountname"]==null)
{
    url=string.format(urlformat,SPContext.Current.Web.Url,SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.LoginName);
}
else
{
    url = string.format(urlformat, SPContext.Current.Web.Url, Request.QueryString["accountname"];
}

Is there a better way to get this same data or should I just stick with the above?

Answer 1

An example how it is done in MOSS, should work well for 2010: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/30854/how-do-i-get-the-mysite-images-and-full-name-of-the-mysite-owner-in-moss-2007-in

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Kind Regards Bjoern
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Answer 2

I think this is a little different from what I am asking.  It looks like this gets user info the current user.

What I am wanting is user info for the mysite page I am looking at.  The end goal here is to add a social comment to the users page (I am making a custom web part to replace the default note board).

To do this I need a Uri for that users profile page that I am looking at.  Currently the only way that I see to do this is to look for the accountname parameter.

Answer 3

Hi Jaccs,

Your above code is a solution, also you can achieve this just using Javascript by the same way.
Here is a link about how to use Javascript get current user in SharePoint(Use Client Object Model):
http://spdailytips.blogspot.com/2011/09/get-current-users-group.html

Thanks,
Lhan Han

Answer 4

Thanks Lhan Han.