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

$(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.