Manage User Properties Under User Profiles At The SharePoint Admin Center on Office 365

• New Property
  
  Starting off from the first option, use this page to add a property for user profiles.
  
  
  
  
• Property Settings
  
  Here you can provide a name and display name to your property.
  
  a. Edit Languages: You can define in which language you have to set the property.
  
  b. Type: You choose the type from a variety of list here.
  
  
  
  c. Length: You can choose the length of the name of your property.
  
  d. Configure a Term Set to be used for this property: Here you can choose a term set to be used by this property.
  
  
  
  
• Sub-type of Profile
  
  Here you can select the sub-type of user profiles with which you want to associate this profile property; for us it is default.
  
  
• User Description
  
  Provide a description for the users to know their property and you can choose Edit Languages to assign a language.
  
  
  
  
• Policy Settings
  
  You can specify the policy settings here to your property.
  
  a. You can either make it as Required, Optional or Disabled.
  b. You can either set it Me or for everyone.
  c. You can also set if the property can be override or replicable.
  
  
• Edit Settings
  
  You can define whether you want to allow this property to be edited by other users.
  
  
• Display Settings: You can select among the options below to display the settings.
  
  a. Show in the profile properties section of the user's profile page
  You can choose whether you want this profile property to be displayed on the user’s profile page.
  
  b. Show on the Edit Details page
  You can choose whether you want this profile property to be displayed on the user’s edit details page.
  
  c. Show updates to the property in newsfeed (only compatible with SharePoint 2010 newsfeeds)
  You can choose whether you want to show updates to the property in newsfeed only available in SP 2010.
  
  
• Search Settings
  
  You can choose how you want to use search as in alias or indexed.
  
  
  
• Mapping
  
  You can specify the field to map to this property using synchronizing.
  
  
• New Section:
  
  Here you can use this to create new section.
  
  
  
• Display Name
  
  Here you can provide the name and display name for your section.
  
  
• Sub-type of Profile
  
  Please select the sub-type of user profile which you want to add along to your section.
  
  
• Manage Sub-types
  
  Use this page to manage sub types for profiles.
  
  
  
  
• New Sub-types
  
  Provide a name to create sub types by providing a name and the display name for sub- type.
  
  
• Remove Existing Sub-types
  
  Here you can choose to remove the existing sub types.
  
  
  
  Once you have sub types, you will be able to view them here and you can choose it from this drop down.

Here in this article we learnt how to Manage User Properties under User Profiles at the SharePoint Admin Center on Office 365.

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