Access to "About Me" text in user macro

[Manuel]

Hi everyone,

I would like to write a simple user macro quite similar to the built-in macro "User Profile".

The macro should have the input of type "username" and the output...

User Full Name

$action.getUserFullName($paramUser))

User Profile Picture

$userAccessor.getUserProfilePicture($userAccessor.getUserByName($paramUser)).getUriReference()

That went well..but how do I get access these pieces of information?:

1. the "About Me" text from the Profile
2. the Phone-Number from the Personal Information
3. and the position from the Company Information

Thank you in advance!

Beste regards
Manuel

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi @Manuel ,

the macro from 2012 by @Andreas Gounaris is still working (I tried it just now) and returns exactly what you need. You can find it here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-do-I-get-the-quot-About-Me-quot-field-from-a-confluence-user/qaq-p/130078

[andreasgounaris]

I'm glad it still works, thanks @Thomas Schlegel  for mentioning! 

[Manuel]

Hi @Thomas Schlegel ,

Thank you for your reply. The description in the example you gave me is exactly what I was trying. I unserstand the logic of the code but apperently I'm stuck somewhere - maybe in the datatype I am handing over to the methods.

If I copy-paste the code of @Andreas Gounaris the out put looks like this:

<div> <b>Website: </b> $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($action.remoteUser, 'website') </div> <div> <b>Location: </b> $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($action.remoteUser, 'location') </div> <div> <b>About Me: </b> <div id="profile-about-me-content">$renderedAboutMe</div> </div>

An if I copy-paste the code of @Stefan Baader the output looks like this

<b>Profildaten von User $user.fullName ($user.name)</b> <div> <b>Website: </b> $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($user, 'website') </div> <div> <b>Location: </b> $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($user, 'location') </div> <div> <b>Position: </b> $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($user, 'position') </div> <div> <b>Phone: </b> $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($user, 'phone') </div> <div> <b>Department: </b> $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($user, 'department') </div> <div> <b>confluence.user.profile.email: </b> $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($user, 'email') </div> <div> <b>About Me: </b> $renderedAboutMe </div>

Please help me to find the link. I'm probably close. Even if I enter "<...>" instead of &lt; and &gt;

Thank you in advance!

Beste regards
Manuel

[Thomas Schlegel]

this is the code of the macro as it is working for me:

## @noparams

#set($containerManagerClass = $content.class.forName('com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager'))
#set($getInstanceMethod = $containerManagerClass.getDeclaredMethod('getInstance',null))
#set($containerManager = $getInstanceMethod.invoke(null,null))
#set($containerContext = $containerManager.containerContext)
#set($userDetailsManager = $containerContext.getComponent('userDetailsManager'))
#set($personalInformationManager = $containerContext.getComponent('personalInformationManager'))
#set($wikiStyleRenderer = $containerContext.getComponent('wikiStyleRenderer'))

#set($pi = $personalInformationManager.getPersonalInformation($action.remoteUser))
#set($renderedAboutMe = $wikiStyleRenderer.convertWikiToXHtml($pi.toPageContext(), $pi.getBodyAsString()))

<div>
<b>$action.getText('confluence.user.profile.website'): </b>
$userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($action.remoteUser, 'website')
</div>
<div>
<b>$action.getText('confluence.user.profile.location'): </b>
$userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($action.remoteUser, 'location')
</div>
<div>
<b>$action.getText('personal.info'): </b>
<div id="profile-about-me-content">$renderedAboutMe</div>
</div>

[Manuel]

This looks quite familiar to me, though the result on the confluence page looks like..

Website: $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($action.remoteUser, 'website')
Location: $userDetailsManager.getStringProperty($action.remoteUser, 'location')
About Me:
$renderedAboutMe

We use Confluence Server 7.2.0. Is it maybe some configuration that's making the problem?

Any ideas?

[Thomas Schlegel]

Most probably you have no data in these fields on your profile.

[Manuel]

No, I do. :-( 

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hmm, I tried with Confluence 6.15.9 - we don't have Confluence 7 yet. Maybe this is not working with Confluence 7 anymore. 

[Manuel]

It seems to be removed in 7.x.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-get-user-s-quot-About-Me-quot-section-content-after/qaq-p/1253248

[Thomas Schlegel]

Same question in the developer Community:

https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/problem-to-get-about-me-information-from-user-details-after-confluence-7-update/35258

Maybe someone will find an answer there.