Retrieving correct user info

Question

DimportletContext AsIPortletContext
portletContext = PortletContextFactory.CreatePortletContext(Request, Response)
DimportletUser AsIPortletUser
portletUser = portletContext.GetUser
empId = portletUser.GetUserID
Response.Write(empId)
I am using this code to retrieve user info. But here the employee id retrieved is not correct. I have set the information in the general information portlet and want to retrieve data from that portlet. How do I do that???

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is what you need, but in remote portlets I get all user information using users' object manager and by querying an extended data. Here is an example (in VB)
DimobjectManager AsIObjectManager = ptContext.GetRemotePortalSession().GetObjectManager(ObjectClass.User)Dims AsString= CStr(objectManager.QuerySingleObject(123).GetValue(UserProperty.Name))Response.Write("Some User Info: "& s & "<br />")Dimxd AsIExtendedData = objectManager.QueryExtendedData(123)Dimnames AsIEnumerator = xd.GetNames()Whilenames.MoveNext() Dimname AsString= DirectCast(names.Current, String) Dimvalue AsObject= xd.GetValue(name) Response.Write(String.Format("Some User Info: {0} - {1}<br />", name, value))EndWhile
Here 123 is some user's object id.
An alternative would be to use the PRC search, but it's more convoluted.
Ruslan.