How do you populate information from a user's AD profile to a list's field?

Question

Basically I want to create a Staff Directory on SharePoint that auto-populates a user's location (we are multi-site), Phone Number, and Title. I am hoping to automate some of this process by pulling these bits of data from the user's AD profile. Basically making it easier for the HR users to add the person into the list by only needing to add the name/profile into the beginning, but also allowing easy changing when a person moves location/phone number/job title.

Thanks, -Robin

Answer 1

The person/group column allows you to select which information to pull from the profile. So if you wanted to display Name, Phone Number, and Title, you would add 3 person/group columns, then choose the corresponding "Show field" option. Then you just select the same person for all 3 fields and they will stay in sync from AD as long as your profile sync job is running.

UPDATE WITH WORKFLOW

Set field in current item