There are a good few blog posts scattered around the web detailing how to retrieve information about a user by using the UserProfileService web service of MOSS in InfoPath (with and without writing code):
- Get the User Profile through MOSS Web Services (code)
- InfoPath – Get the current user without writing code (no code)
- How to display current user’s full name, email and other info in InfoPath? (troubleshooting tips)
Important:
The UserProfileService is a MOSS web service, which means that it is not available if you only have WSS installed. If you try to access it on a server where only WSS is installed, you will receive the following error in InfoPath:
InfoPath cannot find or cannot access the specified Web service description.
The file is not a valid XML file.
The form contains XML that cannot be parsed:
A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was found.Line 19, Position 38
<TABLE class=”ms-main” CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 WIDTH=”100%” HEIGHT=”100%”>
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You can check whether the web service exists on your SharePoint server by going to the 12 hive (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\), opening the ISAPI folder, and look for a file named UserProfileService.asmx.
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