How to get user tasks from My Site task list?

Question

I'm working on a solution in SharePoint 2013. It's a Web Part that is going to display the five tasks that are due next from the task list on the current users' My Site. I'm new to SharePoint and kind of lost here. If anybody has some suggestions or advice on how to achieve this I would be grateful.

Thanks!

Joakim

Answer 1

Hierarchical your SharePoint Site Collection and the My-Sites Site Collection is at the same Level. It's not easy to get cross-site-collection information in a Webpart.

https://DemoSP.sharepoint.com/SitePages/Homepage.aspx (normal SP 2013)

https://DemoSP-my.sharepoint.com/default.aspx (MySite Site Collection)

You may need to hard-code the my-Site Url and try to get information from the Task-list.

You can use something like this to get your My-Site Web-Objekt

using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("https://DemoSP-my.sharepoint.com/"))
{
    using (SPWeb spWeb = spSite.RootWeb)
    {
         //find your list, get infos...
    }
}

Hope its a little help.

Answer 2

Found it: The tasks in a User profile seem to be stored in a special list called 'WmaAggregatorList_User'. It's not even stored as a task contenttype.

I have created a blog entry on this: http://blog.amtopm.be/2013/02/22/getting-personal-tasks-from-the-user-profile/

See also. Stack exchange post: Get Task items from User Profile?