User Information checkboxes in remote web service

Question

They have these checkboxes there for a reason - ease of property retrieval in a remote portlet. However, I'm unable to retrieve these values w/o using the IObjectManager and IExtendedData. If I'm using the .net app accel 1.1 and my portlet page is inheriting from the ALIPortletPage class, how the heck do I easily retrieve the user's email or full name or company name or any of the checkboxed values?
Right now I achieve this like this:
IRemoteSession currSession = RemoteSessionFactory.GetTokenContext(this.RemoteAPIEndpoint, User.LoginToken);
IObjectManager objMgr = currSession.GetObjectManager(ObjectClass.User) as IObjectManager;
IExtendedData extData = objMgr.QueryExtendedData(this.User.ID) as IExtendedData;
// employee id
extData.GetValue("Employee Id").ToString();
// company
extData.GetValue("Company").ToString();
This works fine, but there must be an easier way than this if they're explicity offering checkboxes at the web service level for the most used properties. Anyone?

Answer 1

Are you trying to get info about a random user? or the currently logged in user?
There appears to be a transformer tag to retrieve info about the logged in user:
The userInfo tag is replaced with the value of the specified User Information setting. Note that this tag uses camel case for the tag name (userInfo).
Example:
<pt:userInfo pt:name="FullName"/>
http://edocs.bea.com/en/alui/devdoc/docs6x/api_libraries/tagdocs/ali/6.5/transformer/userinfo.html