Customize the SharePoint People Views

SharePoint All People and Group views are a bit light weight. If you want to know someone’s phone number you have to click their name and wait for another page to load, or to see if they are a Site Collection Administrator you have to visit another screen. Normally we would just click the View dropdown and click Modify View or Create View, but the View menu here only has:

Won’t it be nice if you could add more columns, or even group, sort or filter the list of users???

Fields Available

Turns out you can create your own views of People and you have 35 fields to choose from including both SharePoint and user profile data: (Items in the default views are in bold)

About me
Account
Attachment
Content Type
Content Type
Create
Created By
Deleted
Department
Edit (Edit)
Edit (link to edit item)
First name

ID
Is Site Admin
Last name
Modified
Modified By
Name
Name (linked to item with edit menu)
Name (linked to item)
Name (with picture and details)
Name (with picture)
Name (with presence)
Office

Picture
Responsibilities
Selection Checkbox (checkboxes)
SIP Address
Title
Type (icon linked to document)
User name
Version
Web site
Work e-mail
Work phone

SharePoint 2010 adds: Mobile Phone

This is the default “Details” view:

To customize people views:

Go to the top level site in the site collection (important!)
Go to People and Groups (or Site Actions, Site Permissions in 2010) and click on any group, including All People (they all share the same views)
Go to Settings, List Settings and scroll down to the Views section.

Click Create View (Rather than changing the exiting views you probably should create a new view)
Select your view options like any other view
Optional: set sort, group, filter and other View options
Save the changes
Note: This will leave you in the new view, but the View dropdown will not be displayed, return to People and Groups (or Site Actions, Site Permissions in 2010) and the view will be displayed correctly

Here is a customized view: