Referencing user profile fields

This guide explains how to use the “Retrieve user profile data” to obtain user's standard fields and “Retrieve user profile custom field” to obtain user custom fields.

"Retrieve user profile data" action

Using this step you will be able to get more information from the selected user’s profile such as: first and last name, role, user email, user name, # of comments, # of likes, # of posts, last activity date, profile creation date…etc. You can reference these fields in the further steps of the workflow, for example, to create a dynamic file name or address the chat message or email.

This action is also necessary in order to retrieve user custom fields with the action “Retrieve user custom profile field”.

How to use the fields?

User - select the person whose profile data you want to retrieve.

• Use Magic Variables to retrieve the data of the user from the trigger (i.e. form submitter, the user who logged in, user added/removed from the group).
• You can also retrieve the profile data of a specific user, in this case type the first name of the user and select from the list.

"Retrieve user profile custom field" action

Using this step you will be able to get additional custom fields from the user profile of the user you selected in the “Retrieve user profile data” action.

How to use the fields?

User profile data - using Magic Variables select “User profile data” from the “Retrieve user profile data” action

Field name - from the dropdown select the field which you would like to reference in the next steps.