Person component in Microsoft Graph Toolkit
The person component is used to display a person or contact by using their photo, name, email address, or any other person details.
The person component also uses the mgt-person-card to display a flyout card with additional information about the user. For details, see the Person Card section.
Example
The following example displays a person using the mgt-person
component. You can use the code editor to see how properties change the behavior of the component.
Setting the person details
You can use three properties to set the person details. Use only one of the following properties per instance:
Set the
user-id
attribute oruserId
property to fetch the user from Microsoft Graph by using their ID.Set the
person-query
attribute orpersonQuery
property to search Microsoft Graph for a given person. It chooses the first person available and fetches the person details. An email works best to ensure the right person is queried, but a name works as well.Set the
person-presence
attribute orpersonPresence
property to add a presence badge to person avatar manually.Set the
avatar-size
attribute oravatarSize
property tosmall
orlarge
to determine the size of avatar. This helps add the correct presence badge to the avatar. You need to choose the correct corresponding css custom properties shown below to further customize the avatar size. By default, the value is set toauto
which will automatically decide how to render the presence based on theview
property. We recommend usingsmall
if your avatar is smaller than 32px by 32px.Use the
person-details
attribute orpersonDetails
property to manually set the person details, as shown in the following example.let personControl = document.getElementById('myPersonControl'); personControl.personDetails = { displayName: 'Nikola Metulev', mail: 'nikola@contoso.com', personImage: 'url' }
If no image is provided, one is fetched (if available).
By default, the person component only requests the standard Microsoft Graph user set of properties. In order to request additional properties, declare them as any part of the
line(x)Property
.
Properties
You can use several properties to customize the component.
Attribute | Property | Description |
---|---|---|
user-id | userId | Set to a user ID to fetch that user's details and image from Microsoft Graph. |
person-query | personQuery | Set to a name or email of a person to search for a person in Microsoft Graph and fetch the first person's details and image. |
person-details | personDetails | Set to an object representing a person. Works with objects from the people, users, contacts, or group, resources. |
fallback-details | fallbackDetails | Set to an object representing a person when no user/person/contact is found in Microsoft Graph. |
person-image | personImage | Set the image to show for the person. |
person-presence | personPresence | Set the presence for the person. |
fetch-image | fetchImage | Set flag to fetch personImage automatically from Microsoft Graph based on the personDetails object provided by the user. |
disable-image-fetch | disableImageFetch | Set flag to disable fetching of person image. It can be used to avoid unnecessary fetching from Microsoft Graph when specifying personImage property. |
avatar-type | avatarType | Set to initials or photo to render either display state - default is photo. |
avatar-size | avatarSize | Set the avatar size to small , large , or auto , helping also determine the correct size for the presence badge. The default value is auto . If the view attribute is set to threelines or fourlines , avatar-size is automatically treated as large , regardless of its actual value. |
vertical-layout | verticalLayout | Set the component layout to vertical. |
view | view | Set to control how the person is rendered. Default is image . image - show only avatar oneline - show avatar and first line (displayName by default) twolines - show avatar and two lines of text (displayName and jobTitle by default) threelines - show avatar and three lines of text (displayName , jobTitle and department by default) fourlines - show avatar and four lines of text (displayName , jobTitle , department and email by default) In vertical-layout , view changes. twolines - show avatar and two lines of text (displayName and email by default) threelines - show avatar and three lines of text (displayName , email and department by default) |
line1-property | line1Property | Sets the property of the personDetails to use for the first line of text. Default is displayName . |
line2-property | line2Property | Sets the property of the personDetails to use for the second line of text. Default is jobTitle . |
line3-property | line3Property | Sets the property of the personDetails to use for the third line of text. Default is department . |
line4-property | line4Property | Sets the property of the personDetails to use for the fourth line of text. Default is email . |
show-presence | showPresence | Set flag to display person presence - default is false . |
usage | usage | Specify where the component is being used in order to add customized personalization for it. Currently only supports people as used in the people component. |
person-card | personCardInteraction | Sets the behavior to show the person card on the rendered person component. The allowed values are none , hover or click . Default is none . |
CSS custom properties
The mgt-person
component defines the following CSS custom properties.
<mgt-person class="person" person-query="me" view="fourlines" id="online" show-presence></mgt-person>
.person {
--person-background-color: #616161;
--person-background-border-radius: 30%;
--person-avatar-size: 40px;
--person-avatar-border: 3px solid yellow;
--person-avatar-border-radius: 54%;
--person-initials-text-color: white;
--person-initials-background-color: blue;
--person-line1-font-size: 32px;
--person-line1-font-weight: 600;
--person-line1-text-color: red;
--person-line1-text-transform: capitalize;
--person-line1-text-line-height: 20px;
--person-line2-font-size: 28px;
--person-line2-font-weight: 500;
--person-line2-text-color: orange;
--person-line2-text-transform: full-width;
--person-line2-text-line-height: 16px;
--person-line3-font-size: 24px;
--person-line3-font-weight: 400;
--person-line3-text-color: blue;
--person-line3-text-transform: uppercase;
--person-line3-text-line-height: 12px;
--person-line4-font-size: 20px;
--person-line4-font-weight: 300;
--person-line4-text-color: green;
--person-line4-text-transform: lowercase;
--person-line4-text-line-height: 12px;
--person-details-spacing: 30px;
}
To learn more, see styling components.
Events
The following events are fired from the component.
Event | When is it emitted | Custom data | Cancelable | Bubbles | Works with custom template |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
line1clicked |
Fired when line1 is clicked | The person object which can be a Microsoft Graph user, person, or contact with an additional personImage property that contains the URL of the user's photo. |
No | No | Yes, unless you override the default template. |
line2clicked |
Fired when line2 is clicked | The person object which can be a Microsoft Graph user, person, or contact with an additional personImage property that contains the URL of the user's photo. |
No | No | Yes, unless you override the default template. |
line3clicked |
Fired when line3 is clicked | The person object, which can be a Microsoft Graph user, person, or contact with an additional personImage property that contains the URL of the user's photo. |
No | No | Yes, unless you override the default template. |
line4clicked |
Fired when line4 is clicked | The person object, which can be a Microsoft Graph user, person, or contact with an additional personImage property that contains the URL of the user's photo. |
No | No | Yes, unless you override the default template. |
For more information about handling events, see events.
Templates
The mgt-person
component supports several templates that allow you to replace certain parts of the component. To specify a template, include a <template>
element inside a component and set the data-type
to one of the following values:
Data type | Data context | Description |
---|---|---|
loading | none | The template to render while the component is in a loading state. |
no-data | none | The template to render when no person image or data is available. |
default | person: The person details object personImage : The URL of the image personPresence : The presence details object for person. |
The default template replaces the entire component with your own. |
person-card | person: The person details object personImage : The URL of the image. |
The template to update the mgt-person-card displayed on hover or click. |
line1 | person: The person details object | The template for the first line of person metadata. |
line2 | person: The person details object | The template for the second line of person metadata. |
line3 | person: The person details object | The template for the third line of person metadata. |
line4 | person: The person details object | The template for the fourth line of person metadata. |
The following example defines a template for the person component.
<!-- Retemplate the entire person component -->
<mgt-person>
<template>
<div data-if="personImage">
<img src="{{personImage}}" />
</div>
<div data-else>
{{person.displayName}}
</div>
</template>
</mgt-person>
<!-- Retemplate the line properties -->
<mgt-person view="threeLines">
<template data-type="line1">
<div>
Hello, my name is: {{person.displayName}}
</div>
</template>
<template data-type="line2">
<div>
Super cool
</div>
</template>
<template data-type="line3">
<div>
Loves MGT
</div>
</template>
</mgt-person>
<mgt-person view="fourLines">
<template data-type="line1">
<div>
Hello, my name is: {{person.displayName}}
</div>
</template>
<template data-type="line2">
<div>
Musician
</div>
</template>
<template data-type="line3">
<div>
Calif records
</div>
</template>
<template data-type="line4">
<div>
{{person.mail}}
</div>
</template>
</mgt-person>
<!-- Person-card template -->
<mgt-person person-query="me" view="twolines" person-card="hover">
<template data-type="person-card">
My custom person card experience
</template>
</mgt-person>
Person card
The mgt-person
component can show an mgt-person-card
on either hover or click.
Add the control to the HTML page
<mgt-person person-query="me" person-card="hover"></mgt-person>
Attribute | Property | Description |
---|---|---|
person-card | personCardInteraction | An enumeration to determine the user action necessary to activate flyout panel - hover or click . Default value is none . |
For more information about templating, styling, and attributes, see Person Card component.
Global component configuration
The MgtPerson
class exposes a static config
object that configures all person components in the application.
The following example shows how to use the config object.
import { MgtPerson } from '@microsoft/mgt-components';
MgtPerson.config.useContactApis = false;
The following properties are available on the config object.
Property | Description |
---|---|
useContactApis | boolean - Indicates whether the person component can use Microsoft Graph personal contacts API to search for contact details and photos. Default value is true . |
Microsoft Graph permissions
This control uses the following Microsoft Graph APIs and permissions. For each API called, the user must have at least one of the permissions listed. Some configurations can result in multiple calls to Microsoft Graph. When these calls can use different permissions, each API and permission set is in a separate row.
Configuration | Permission | API |
---|---|---|
personDetails set without image, fetchImage set to true , avatarType set to photo , retrieved person is a contact and useContactApis set to true |
Contacts.Read, Contacts.ReadWrite | /me/contacts/* |
personDetails set without image, fetchImage set to true , avatarType set to photo and person isn't a contact or useContactApis is set to false |
User.ReadBasic.All, User.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All | /users/{id}/photo/$value |
personDetails set without image, fetchImage set to true , avatarType set to photo and user specified via email |
User.ReadBasic.All, User.Read.All, Directory.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All | /users?$search= |
personDetails set without image, fetchImage set to true , avatarType set to photo and user specified via email |
User.ReadBasic.All, User.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All | /users/{id}/photo/$value |
personDetails set without image, fetchImage set to true , avatarType set to photo and contact specified via email and useContactApis set to true |
Contacts.Read, Contacts.ReadWrite | /me/contacts/* |
personDetails set without image to a group, fetchImage set to true , avatarType set to photo |
Group.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All' | /groups/${groupId}/photo/$value |
userId set |
User.ReadBasic.All | /users/{id} |
userId set or personQuery set to me and avatarType set to photo and disableImageFetch is false |
User.ReadBasic.All, User.Read.All, Directory.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All | /users/{id} |
userId set or personQuery set to me and avatarType set to photo and disableImageFetch is false |
User.ReadBasic.All, User.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All | users/${userId}/photo/* |
userId set to me and avatarType set to photo and disableImageFetch is false |
User.Read, User.ReadWrite, User.ReadBasic.All, User.Read.All, Directory.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All | /me |
userId set to me and avatarType set to photo and disableImageFetch is false |
User.Read, User.ReadWrite, User.ReadBasic.All, User.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All | /me/photo/$value |
personQuery set to me and avatarType set to something else than photo |
User.Read, User.ReadWrite | /me |
personQuery set to a value other than me and avatarType set to something else than photo |
People.Read, People.Read.All | /me/people |
personQuery set to a value other than me and avatarType set to something else than photo and /me/people returned no data matching the supplied personQuery |
User.ReadBasic.All, User.Read.All, Directory.Read.All, User.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All | /user?$search= |
personQuery set to a value other than me and useContactApis set to false |
People.Read, User.ReadBasic.All | /me/people/?$search=, /users?$search= |
showPresence set to true and personQuery set to me |
Presence.Read | /me/presence |
showPresence set to true and personQuery set to a value other than me |
Presence.Read.All | /users/{id}/presence |
personCardInteraction set to a value other than PersonCardInteraction.none |
See person card permissions | See person card API calls |
Subcomponents
The mgt-person
component consists of one or more subcomponents that might require other permissions than the ones listed previously. For more information, see the documentation for each subcomponent: mgt-person-card.
Authentication
The control uses the global authentication provider described in the authentication documentation to fetch the required data.
Cache
Object store | Cached data | Remarks |
---|---|---|
photos |
Person's photo | Used when avatarType is set to photo and fetchImage is set to true . |
presence |
Person's presence | Used when showPresence is set to true . |
users |
Person's user information. |
See Caching for more details on how to configure the cache.
Extend for more control
For more complex scenarios or a truly custom UX, this component exposes several protected render*
methods for override in component extensions.
Method | Description |
---|---|
renderLoading | Renders the loading state. |
renderNoData | Renders when no image or person data is available. |
renderAvatar | Renders the avatar. |
renderDetails | Renders the person details part. |
Localization
The control exposes the following variables that can be localized. For details about how to set up localization, see Localizing components.
String name | Default value |
---|---|
photoFor | Photo for |
emailAddress | Email address |