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Answered My Site Person.aspx Colleagues webpart, updating the underlying list for a user.

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      Tuesday, June 08, 2010 2:44 PM
       
       
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      Hi,

      Is there any way to manage a users colleagues list for them? When the user is intialy imported from the AD this list is calculated from their Organization Hierarchy. If a user changes department this list retains their old colleagues list.

      I know the user can update this list themself however we would juts like to reset it for them. I can't find anything under personalisation services in our SSP to allow us to do this?

      I don't want to delete the user profile! Can anyone help?

      Cheers Dave

       

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    • Wednesday, June 09, 2010 3:00 AM
       
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      I haven't seen where this is built into the system.  I think this might be one of those things where different people have different ways they would want or expect it to function.  My interpretation is that if I switch departments, or companies for that matter, my old colleagues are still colleagues.

      If you want to do this, it can be done very simply with .net code in a custom form.  The User Profile Web Service exposes two methods, one to remove all colleagues and one that can remove one at a time. 

      The web service is available at: http://<Site>/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx

      If you wanted to reset the colleagues as you mentioned you would just need to call RemoveAllColleagues(accountName)

      If you wanted to remove a specific colleague you would need to call RemoveColleague(accountName, colleagueAccountName)

       

       

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      • Marked As Answer by David Cornall Wednesday, June 09, 2010 6:35 AM
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      I haven't seen where this is built into the system.  I think this might be one of those things where different people have different ways they would want or expect it to function.  My interpretation is that if I switch departments, or companies for that matter, my old colleagues are still colleagues.

      If you want to do this, it can be done very simply with .net code in a custom form.  The User Profile Web Service exposes two methods, one to remove all colleagues and one that can remove one at a time. 

      The web service is available at: http://<Site>/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx

      If you wanted to reset the colleagues as you mentioned you would just need to call RemoveAllColleagues(accountName)

      If you wanted to remove a specific colleague you would need to call RemoveColleague(accountName, colleagueAccountName)

       

       

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      • Marked As Answer by David Cornall Wednesday, June 09, 2010 6:35 AM
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    • Wednesday, June 09, 2010 6:37 AM
       
       
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      Thanks. That's perfect :-)

      It's just our users and companies definition of colleague is people currently in your team it is causing confusion that people from previous teams stay in the list!

      I do however agree with your definition!

      Cheers Dave