For one of our customers’ intranet we are using a custom page to display User Profile information. By default, clicking a user’s name anywhere in SharePoint redirects you to the page Person.aspx within the “MySite Host”. This redirection is performed by a Control within the Application Page “userdisp.aspx” (_layouts/userdisp.aspx). The actual control is inserted by means of a Delegate Control. This means you’re able to replace it with whatever custom Control you want by activating a Feature with a properly declared Control element.
The Delegate Control is declared with ControlID value “ProfileRedirection” and Scope “Farm”. This means the Feature with the Control element to insert a custom Control also needs to be Farm scoped. Thus, activating this Feature will result in replacing the redirect behaviour through the entire Farm. In our case, this was not a problem but be sure to keep this in mind.
The Feature’s Control Element declaration looks something like this:
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Control ControlAssembly="Customer.Intranet, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=fe3fb3dd06bf9154" ControlClass="Customer.Intranet.ProfileRedirectControl" Id="ProfileRedirection" Sequence="1"/> </Elements>
