Get the Manager of the Current SharePoint user Using SPServices and GetUserProfileByName

Introduction

We  get the current user’s manager and put the value into a Person or Group column in a list. This one only works in SharePoint Server 2010 & SharePoint Foundation .because the UserProfileService Web Service is only available there. The code is relatively straightforward: a call to SPServices to get the results from  GetUserProfileByName and then a little more code to poke it into the appropriate Person or Group column. In this case, the Person or Group column is called ‘Manager’

Code  Steps

<script type="text/javascript" src="../../JSLibrary/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="../../JSLibrary/jquery.SPServices-0.4.8.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

    $(document).ready(function () {

        var managerName;

        var userName = $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser();

        $().SPServices({

            operation: "GetUserProfileByName",

            async: false,

            AccountName: userName,

            completefunc: function (xData, Status) {

                managerName = $(xData.responseXML).text();

                var managerLength = managerName.length;

                var indexofManager = managerName.indexOf("Manager");

                managerName = managerName.substring(indexofManager + 13, managerLength);

                var indexOffalse = managerName.indexOf("false");

                managerName = managerName.substring(0, indexOffalse);

            }

        });

        var peoplepicker = $("tr:contains('Reporting Manager'):last").find("div[title='People Picker']");

        peoplepicker.html(managerName);

    });</script>

 
The available values from GetUserProfileByName in sharepoint 2010 environment are:

• UserProfile_GUID
• AccountName
• FirstName
• LastName
• PreferredName
• WorkPhone
• Office
• Department
• Title
• Manager
• AboutMe
• PersonalSpace
• PictureURL
• UserName
• QuickLinks
• WebSite
• PublicSiteRedirect
• SPS-Dotted-line
• SPS-Peers
• SPS-Responsibility
• SPS-Skills
• SPS-PastProjects
• SPS-Interests
• SPS-School
• SPS-SipAddress
• SPS-Birthday
• SPS-MySiteUpgrade
• SPS-DontSuggestList
• SPS-ProxyAddresses
• SPS-HireDate
• SPS-LastColleagueAdded
• SPS-OWAUrl
• SPS-ResourceAccountName
• SPS-MasterAccountName
• Assistant
• WorkEmail
• CellPhone
• Fax
• HomePhone

Summary

In this blog we get Current user manager name and assign New/edit /display form using client side jquery and SPServices.