Which AD component to use
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Jimbaland
September 28th, 2009
Hi All,
I am using Workflow 7 and trying to figure out how I can pull a user's Manager information (Name, email) from AD and use it in subsequent components. The specific application is a permissions request where the manager's approval must first be obtained. As I said before, I would like to automatically get this from AD using the get current user component. I have, however, been able to create a project in which I can pull a user's AD info using get "current user" and "Get Users With Details", but this does not give me any manager info. Any ideas?
Filed under: Workflow Solution, Configuring, Features, Tip/How to, Endpoint Management and Virtualization
To answer my own post
Turns out that I was so close but yet so far away. I had disregarded the manager info heirarchy since it kept opening a never ending tree. Don't know why I didn't realize that this was due to the structure of AD. This is so you can get the info for your manager's manager's manager (and so on) if need be. I ran my project with my credentials using the display name variable from the first level of manager info and was successful. Hopoe this helps other in the future.
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