Sharepoint 2016: MySite Profile Information section - User Profile Property display name not changing for the default properties

Question

I modified the displayname of the default User Profile Property:

Property: Office

• Display name: "Office" -> "Unit"

This new displayname shows correctly if I go to edit any users profile in Central Admin, but when I go to any users MySite it still shows the original displayname of the property in the profile information section in the top right corner.

I also found out that there are five default properties that will show up in the profile information section and you cannot change those from showing up there. Those are Title, Department, WorkEmail, WorkPhone and Office.

For example that Office-property will show up there even the "Show in the profile properties section of the user's profile page" is unselected in the Display Settings of that property. What's even more weird when I select that option it will display the property now twice, but the second Office-property is shown with the new display name "Unit" and it is located under the 5 default properties when you click the "Show more"-button to show all the information about the user.

Also there is a "Phone"-named property shown in the MySite profile information section which shows the telephoneNumber-attribute from user's AD account. However there is no property that has displayname "Phone", but there is that WorkPhone property which is mapped to the same AD-attribute and it has "Work phone" as displayname.

So are those 5 default properties that show up in the MySite profile information section somehow hardcoded to show up always and with the default displaynames?

And what's the logic behind that if I select any of those 5 properties to "Show in the profile properties section of the user's profile page" they will actually show as separate properties under the upper portion of the profile information section (when clicking "Show more" button)?

Seems like they are not related at all to those properties shown in the upper portion of the profile information section.

I've tested now in three different farms and they all act the same way.

Answer 1

Hi anonymous user,

Per my research, those five default properties retrieve the property value in user profile and always with the default display names.

Changing display name in user profile doesn't impact it in profile info web part.

If we tick the option "Show in the profile properties section of the user's profile page" for these default attributes, the web part will display duplicate attributes and values since it is hard-coded and unable to realized the issue.

In addition, the "Phone" attribute on the profile page uses the workphone value in the user profile , which is mapped to the telephoneNumber attribute in AD.

As a workaround, we suggest you avoid mixing with the default property in profile info web part or create a custom web part to show profile page.

Reference:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/Lync/en-US/09148f2f-e08e-47e9-9434-08c59810b44e/how-to-display-the-current-user8217s-profile-properties-as-a-web-part-in-share-point-2013-online?forum=sharepointdevelopment

---

If an Answer is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and upvote it.

Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.