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Fetch profile name of portal user

Overview
Return
Syntax
Example
- Example 1: Fetch profile name of a customer portal user
- Example 2: Separate customer portal users from a list of email addresses

Note: This task is applicable only to Zoho Creator.

Overview

This deluge task fetches the profile name of a specified customer portal user.

Return

This task returns the profile name of a specified customer portal user in TEXT format.

Syntax

<variable> = thisapp.portal.profileForUser( <userDetail> );

Param	Explanation
<variable> (optional)	Variable which will hold the returned value.
<userDetail>	Email ID or the Username of the customer portal user whose profile name will be returned. Points to note for this parameter: You can view the email addresses of customer portal users in your app from the Customer Portal page, and their user names from the Customer Portal customers page. If the user is not found, this function will return an empty Text. Data type is TEXT.

Param

Explanation

(optional)

Variable which will hold the returned value.

Email ID or the Username of the customer portal user whose profile name will be returned.

Points to note for this parameter:

You can view the email addresses of customer portal users in your app from the Customer Portal page, and their user names from the Customer Portal customers page.
If the user is not found, this function will return an empty Text.

Data type is TEXT.

This task can be used in the following events

When a record is Created
On Load	Yes
On Validate	Yes
On Success	Yes
On User input	Yes
Subform on add row	Yes
Subform on delete row	Yes
When a record is Created or Edited
On Load	Yes
On Validate	Yes
On Success	Yes
On User input	Yes
Subform on add row	Yes
Subform on delete row	Yes
When a record is Edited
On Load	Yes
On Validate	Yes
On Success	Yes
On User input	Yes
Subform on add row	Yes
Subform on delete row	Yes
When a record is Deleted
On Validate	Yes
On Success	Yes
Other workflow events
On a scheduled date	No
During approval process	Yes
During payment process	Yes
In a Custom Function	Yes
In an Action item in report	Yes

Example 1: Fetch profile name of a customer portal user

The following snippet to fetch the profile name of a customer portal user.

profName = thisapp.portal.profileForUser("john@zylker.com");

Example 2: Separate customer portal users from a list of email addresses

The following example returns the list of customer portal users among the specified email addresses:

 //List of Email IDs to process
 email_list = {"shawn@zylker.com", "hailee@zylker.com", "harry@zylker.com", "kate@zylker.com"};
 
 //List to store portal users
 portal_users = List();
 
 // Iterate through the list of email addresses
 for each email in email_list
 {
 
 //Check if email address is a customer portal user
 result = thisapp.portal.profileForUser( email );
 if(result != "")
 {
 portal_users.add(email);
 }
 }
 info portal_users;

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