{"id":6632,"date":"2022-10-28T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:14:32","slug":"graph-api-getting-user-initials-and-middlename","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/azure\/graph-api-getting-user-initials-and-middlename\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph API getting user initials and middlename"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learnt about the <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/graph\/api\/resources\/profile\"><code>profile<\/code><\/a> resource type.<\/p>\n<p>Gettting a user&#8217;s details via Graph, using the <code>\/me<\/code> or <code>\/users\/{id|UPN}<\/code> endpoints (or via <code>Get-MgUser<\/code>) don&#8217;t return details like the Initials or Middle Name. That&#8217;s because these return the <code><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/graph\/api\/resources\/user?view=graph-rest-beta\">user<\/a> <\/code>resource type.<\/p>\n<p>What you need instead, is to <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/graph\/api\/profile-get?view=graph-rest-beta&amp;tabs=http\">retrieve<\/a> the <code>profile<\/code> resource type. That&#8217;s got via the <code>\/me\/profile<\/code> or <code>\/users\/{id|UPN}\/profile<\/code> endpoints (or <code>Get-MgUserProfile<\/code>) which returns a much larger trove of information. (Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoftgraph\/msgraph-sdk-powershell\/issues\/1500\">to<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I also learnt that I can do something like <code>\/users\/{id|UPN}\/profile\/names<\/code> just to get the Names info. I didn&#8217;t know one could do that with Graph API.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">GET https:\/\/graph.microsoft.com\/beta\/users\/&lt;UPN&gt;\/profile\/names<\/pre>\n<p>To just get Initials and (say) DisplayName, use the <code>$select<\/code> operator.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">GET https:\/\/graph.microsoft.com\/beta\/users\/&lt;UPN&gt;\/profile\/names?$select=displayName,Initials<\/pre>\n<p>One learns new things every day!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learnt about the profile resource type. Gettting a user&#8217;s details via Graph, using the \/me or \/users\/{id|UPN} endpoints (or via Get-MgUser) don&#8217;t return details like the Initials or Middle Name. That&#8217;s because these return the user resource type. What you need instead, is to retrieve the profile resource type. That&#8217;s got via the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/azure\/graph-api-getting-user-initials-and-middlename\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graph API getting user initials and middlename<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[887],"tags":[1016,1015],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}