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UserID element (View)

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Applies to: SharePoint 2016 | SharePoint Foundation 2013 | SharePoint Online | SharePoint Server 2013

Contains the unique ID number of the currently authenticated user of a site, as defined in the UserInfo table of the content database.

<UserID
  AllowAnonymous = "TRUE | FALSE">
</UserID>

Elements and attributes

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute Description
AllowAnonymous
Optional Boolean. TRUE to allow anonymous requests without displaying a dialog box to ask for the user's password.

Child elements

None

Parent elements

Numerous

Occurrences

  • Minimum: 0
  • Maximum: Unbounded

Remarks

The UserID element can be used to compare the value of a field to the current user ID. If the request is anonymous, this element, by default, causes the server to force authentication, which means it must display a dialog box in the browser that asks for a password, or else it must initiate Windows NT challenge/response (NTLM). If a user has accounts on multiple subsites or Web applications, the user ID may be different in each case.