SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager.getFollowersFor Method (sp.userprofiles)
Gets the people who are following the specified user.
Applies to: apps for SharePoint | Office 365 | SharePoint Foundation 2013 | SharePoint Server 2013
SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager.getFollowersFor(accountName)
Parameters
- accountName
String
The account name of the specified user.
Return value
SP.ClientObjectList
The people who are following the specified user, as a list of PersonProperties objects.
Example
The following example shows how to use the getFollowersFor method and how to iterate through the returned list of PersonProperties objects and get the Display Name property of each person.
Replace the placeholder value for the targetUser variable before you run the code. For information about how to set up a project to run this code, see How to: Follow people by using the JavaScript object model in SharePoint 2013.
var targetUser = 'domain\\userName';
var peopleFollowingUser;
// Send the request to get followers.
function getPeopleFollowingTargetUser() {
// Get the current client context.
var clientContext = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
// Get the PeopleManager instance.
var peopleManager = new SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager(clientContext);
// Get the people who are following the target user.
peopleFollowingUser = peopleManager.getFollowersFor(targetUser);
clientContext.load(peopleFollowingUser);
// Send the request to the server.
clientContext.executeQueryAsync(iterateThroughResults, requestFailed)
}
// Get information from the returned list.
function iterateThroughResults() {
var results = peopleFollowingUser.getEnumerator();
while (results.moveNext()) {
var person = results.get_current();
alert(person.get_displayName() + ' is following the target user');
}
}
// Failure callback.
function requestFailed(sender, args) {
alert('Error: ' + args.get_message());
}