Profiles Integration

Quickstart can import profile information from the profiles.arizona.edu API into your website to display on your existing people.

Initial Setup

Getting an API Key

Email Mark Fischer for an API key

Add an API Key

1. Navigate to Configuration > Arizona Quickstart Settings > Profiles Integration.
2. Leave the Profiles API Endpoint unchanged.
3. Paste your API Key into the API Token field.

Importing Profile Information

Creating New People via Profile Importer

1. Navigate to Content > Import Person in your Quickstart site.
2. Enter the NetID of the person you want to import.
3. Click Import, and the system will fetch available profile data.
4. Review the imported profile information.

Mapping Existing People via Profile Importer

If you already have people in your site, you can map them to their profiles in the API:

1. Go to the Content page from the admin toolbar.
2. Find the person/people you are looking for by filtering by content type "Person" or typing the name in the "Title" field.
3. Edit the person that you would like to map.
4. In the NetID field, add the person's NetID.
5. Go to Content > Import Person.
6. Add the NetID to the List of NetID(s) field (one per line).
7. Choose how profiles are imported.
8. Click Import.
9. Review the imported profile information.

Editing Imported People

Note: Fields sourced from the Profiles API cannot be edited for imported people. 

People that have been imported from the Profiles API can be edited similar to other Person content, but fields which come directly from the Profiles API are locked. Fields which are not sourced from the Profiles API may still be edited. This includes information like CV, Categories and links.

To update fields on a Person which come from the Profiles API, it is recommended to update their Profile directly in the Profiles site and import the person into the Quickstart site to update them. This ensures that the Profiles information is consistent.

Update People via Profile Importer

1. Navigate to Content > Import Person
2. Enter the NetIDs you wish to update.
3. For Choose how profiles are imported select either Import all listed profiles or Import new profiles and profiles updated since last import.
4. Click Import.
5. Fields which are not part of the Profiles API data will not be touched by this update.