New Post: GetUserProfileByName

Hi,

i am having a problem with GetUserProfileByName. ill explain what i am actually trying to accomplish and then ill explain my problem.

i have an input field that on keydown it searches profile Service and returns the staff member that is close to that name that you are typing.

problems: when i try search for a name like John i get no results back, but when i put John.Martinez i get back results. is there a way for me to fix that? i want it to search by last name or first name. what ever the user starts typing.

i want the result to just return 5 records at a time until it gets to only one. how can i do that. below is the code i am using. i actually used the code that i found here and modified it so that it can do what i want it to do.

<input name="userSearch" type="text" id="userSearch" onkeydown="getStaffInformation(this.value)" /><br/><br/>
<div id="staffInformationList"> </div>

function getStaffInformation(name)
{
        $().SPServices({
            operation: 'GetUserProfileByName',
            AccountName: name,
            async:false,
            completefunc: function (xData, Status)
            {
                var properties = xData.responseXML.getElementsByTagName('PropertyData');
                var propertyValues = new Array();
                
                for(var i=0; i < properties.length; i++)
                {
                    var propName = properties[i].getElementsByTagName('Name')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;                                        
                    
                    propertyValues[propName] = properties[i].getElementsByTagName('Value');  
                    
                    var oValueNode = properties[i].getElementsByTagName('Value');
                        
                    if(oValueNode.length > 0)
                    {
                        propertyValues[propName] = oValueNode[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        propertyValues[propName] = '';
                    }                       
                }//end of for loop
                                
                var searchName  = propertyValues['PreferredName'];
                var seachTitle  = propertyValues['Title'];
                var searchEmail = propertyValues['WorkEmail'];
                var searchPhoto = propertyValues['PictureURL'];
                var searchPhone = propertyValues['WorkPhone'];
                
                //alert(searchName);
                
                var seachInformation = "<li>"
                                       +"<table width=\"250\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">"
                                       +"<tr>"
                                       +"<td width=\"48\" rowspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\">"+
                                       +"<div class=\"searchPicture\"><img alt=\"\" src=\""+searchPhoto+"\" /></div>"
                                       +"</td>"
                                       +"<td width=\"154\" height=\"16\" valign=\"top\">"+searchName+"</td>"
                                       +"<td width=\"44\" rowspan=\"2\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\">"
                                       +"<a href=\"mailto:"+searchEmail+"\"><img src=\"/sites/247Dev/SiteAssets/images/email.png\" width=\"22\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Email\" border=\"0\" /></a>"
                                       +"</td>"
                                       +"</tr>"
                                       +"<tr>"
                                       +"<td height=\"16\" valign=\"top\">"
                                       +"<span class=\"searchTitle\">"+seachTitle+"</span>"
                                       +"</td>"
                                       +"</tr>"
                                       +"<tr>"
                                       +"<td valign=\"16\">"
                                       +"<span class=\"searchPhone\">"+searchPhone+"</span>"+
                                       +"</td>"
                                       +"<td valign=\"top\">&nbsp;</td>"
                                       +"</tr>"
                                       +"</table>"
                                       +"</li>";
                               
                $('#staffInformationList').append(seachInformation);
                
            }//end of comple function
        });//end of spservices
    }//end of function