Highlighted content web part filter crawled property based on user profile attribute

Question

I want the Highlighted content webpart to display news items filtered on RefinableString00 with the user.officeLocation.

The news pages have a sitecolumn with data (text) that's crawled & managed and connected to RefinableString00. I can see that the metadata is available with the SharePoint Search Query Tool:

I can see that the user profile contains the correct value via the GraphAPI:

But I can't get the Highlighted content web part to filter based on the user profile. It does work when I hardcode "ITNews" in it. But whatever I do, the user profile options don't display anything.

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Is it possible to filter based on the user profile? If so, what am I doing wrong? I'm feeling that I'm really close in getting it to work.

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*I've found the following resources that got me this far:

1. Highlighted content web-part should show data based on current logged in user's location
2. https://www.sharepointeurope.com/filter-a-content-search-webpart-by-a-user-profile-property/
3. SmartCAML
4. SharePoint Search Query Tool*

Answer 1

I have tried your scenario and it seems that Highlighted web part does not support filter based on user profile property i.e. {ManagedPropertyName}:{User.{UserProfilePropertyName}}. However it's working when calling Search API.

Here best approach to use PnP Search Result Web Part where you can use below query which will give you expected result. PnP Search Result web part does also have similar design template.

RefinableString00:{User.SPS-Location}