Property Overview

Property Details

access String

Indicates the level of access of the user. If private, the user descriptive information will not be available to others nor will the username be searchable.

Possible Values:"private"|"org"|"public"

created Date

The date the user was created.

culture String

The culture information for the user.

declaredClass Stringreadonly inherited

Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.7

The name of the class. The declared class name is formatted as esri.folder.className.

description String

A description of the user.

email String

The user's e-mail address.

fullName String

The user's full name.

modified Date

The date the user was last modified.

orgId String

The ID of the organization the user belongs to.

portal Portal

The portal associated with the user.

preferredView String

The user's preferred view for content, either web or GIS.

region String

The user preferred region, used to set the featured maps on the home page, content in the gallery, and the default extent of new maps in the Viewer.

role String

Defines the user's role in the organization. See roleId for more details about when user has a custom role.

Possible Values:"org_admin"|"org_publisher"|"org_user"

roleId String

The ID of the user's role. Only set if the user is assigned a custom role.

When present, the role will indicate the "base" role of the custom role based on the privileges the custom role contains. For example, if the custom role contains some publisher privileges, the role will be set to org_publisher.

sourceJSON Object

Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.13

The JSON used to create the property values when the PortalUser is created. Although most commonly used properties are exposed on the PortalUser class directly, this provides access to all information returned for the portal user. This property is useful if working in an application built using an older version of the API which requires access to a portal's user properties from a more recent version.

See also:

• ArcGIS REST API - Item

thumbnailUrl Stringreadonly

The URL to the thumbnail image for the user.

See also:

• getThumbnailUrl()

units String

The user's personal units of measure setting.

Possible Values:"english"|"metric"

userContentUrl Stringreadonly

The URL for the user's content.

username String

The username of the user.

Method Overview

Method Details

addItem(params){Promise<PortalItem>}

Adds an item to the user's portal content.

Parameters:

Specification:

params Object See the object specifications table below for the parameters that may be passed as properties in this object. Specification: item PortalItem The item to add to the user's content. data String|Object optional The component used to stream the data represented by the item to the client. folder String|PortalFolder optional The portal folder in which to store the item.

Returns:

Type	Description
Promise<PortalItem>	When resolved, returns the PortalItem to be added to the user's content.

deleteItem(item){Promise}

Deletes an item from the user's portal content.

Parameter:

item PortalItem The portal item to remove.

Returns:

Type	Description
Promise	Resolves when the item has been deleted from the user's content.

deleteItems(items){Promise}

Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.8

Deletes items from the user's portal content.

Parameter:

items PortalItem[] The portal items to remove.

Returns:

Type	Description
Promise	Resolves when the items have been deleted from the user's content.

fetchFolders(){Promise<PortalFolder[]>}

Fetches all of the user's folders used to organize portal content.

Returns:

Type	Description
Promise<PortalFolder[]>	Resolves to an array of PortalFolder objects representing each of the user's folders in the portal.

Example:

// Once portal is loaded, user signed in
portal.load().then(function() {
  portalUser.fetchFolders().then(function(folders){
    folders.forEach(function(folder){
      console.log(" user folder", folder.title);
    });
  });
});

fetchGroups(){Promise<PortalGroup[]>}

Fetches all the groups that the portal user has permission to access.

Returns:

Type	Description
Promise<PortalGroup[]>	Resolves to an array of PortalGroup objects representing each group that the user can access.

Example:

// Once portal is loaded, user signed in
portal.load().then(function() {
  // fetch all the groups user can access
  portal.user.fetchGroups().then(function(fetchItemResult){
    console.log("user's groups: ", fetchItemResult);
  });
});

fetchItems(params){Promise<Object>}

Retrieves all the items in the specified folder.

Parameters:

Specification:

params Object optional See the object specifications table below for the parameters that may be passed as properties in this object. Specification: folder PortalFolder optional The folder to retrieve items from. num Number optional Default Value: 10 The maximum number of results to be included in the result set response. The maximum value allowed is 100. The start property combined with the num property can be used to paginate the search results. sortField String optional Default Value: created A comma-delimited list of fields to sort by. Allowed values are created, modified, size, and type. sortOrder String optional Default Value: asc The order in which to sort the results. Allowed values are asc for ascending order and desc for descending order. start Number optional Default Value: 1 The index of the first entry in the result set response. The index is 1-based.

Returns:

Type	Description
Promise<Object>	Resolves to an object with the following properties: Property Type Description items PortalItem[] An array containing user's portal items. nextStart number The next entry index if the current result set doesn't contain all results. total number The total number of results.

Example:

// portalUser.fetchItems
portal.user.fetchItems().then(function(fetchItemResult){
   console.log("next start index: ", fetchItemResult.nextStart);
   fetchItemResult.items.forEach(function(item){
     console.log("portal item title:", item.title);
   });
});

fetchTags(){Promise<Object[]>}

Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.14

Fetches the tag objects that have been created by the portal user.

Returns:

Type	Description
Promise<Object[]>	Resolves to an array of objects with the following properties: Property Type Description tag string The name of the tag. count number The number of times the tag was used.

getThumbnailUrl(width){String}

Since: ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.4

Get the URL to the thumbnail image for the user.

Available width sizes: 150, 300 and 600.

Parameter:

width Number optional The desired image width.

Returns:

Type	Description
String	The URL to the thumbnail image.

queryFavorites(queryParams){Promise<PortalQueryResult>}

Executes a query against the user's favorite group to return an array of PortalItem objects that match the input query.

Parameter:

queryParams PortalQueryParams optional The input query parameters defined in PortalQueryParams. This object may be autocast.

Returns:

Type	Description
Promise<PortalQueryResult>	When resolved, resolves to an instance of PortalQueryResult which contains a results array of PortalItem objects representing all the items that match the input query.