Getting user's manager in SharePoint (Javascript)

Question

I'm having trouble with getting user's manager data in SharePoint Javascript Model.

I'm using context.get_web().get_siteUserInfoList(); through SiteUserInfoList. What I got back is a bunch of info about a user (Title, JobTitle, Department, Office etc...) except who's that user manager.

What I'm missing? Or how can i get user's manager?

Answer 1

This blogpost describes how to get the current users manager by using the SPservices library.

The SPServices libary can be found on codeplex.

Answer 2

Hi i know this is an old question, but here's a result that doesn't use SPServices:

Note that this answer is inspired from this post

The method to get the manager of a user by user_email:

function getManagerOfUser(user_email, onComplete) {
    SP.SOD.executeOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(function () {
    // Create the client context and get the PeopleManager instance.
    var clientContext = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
    var peopleManager = new SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager(clientContext);

    // Get user profile properties for the target user.
    // Specify the properties to retrieve and create the UserProfilePropertiesForUser object.
    // Then get the requested properties by using the getUserProfilePropertiesFor method.
    var profilePropertyNames = ["Manager"];

    var userProfilePropertiesForUser = new SP.UserProfiles.UserProfilePropertiesForUser(clientContext,
        "i:0#.f|membership|" + user_email,
        profilePropertyNames);

    var userProfileProps = peopleManager.getUserProfilePropertiesFor(userProfilePropertiesForUser);

    clientContext.load(userProfilePropertiesForUser);
    clientContext.executeQueryAsync(function () {
        if (userProfileProps[0]) {
            var user = clientContext.get_web().ensureUser(userProfileProps[0]);
            clientContext.load(user);
            clientContext.executeQueryAsync(function () {
                onComplete(user);
            }, function (sender, args) {
                console.log(args);
            });
        } else {
            onComplete(null);
        }
    }, function (sender, args) {
        console.log(args);
    });
   }, 'SP.UserProfiles.js');
}

To use the code:

getManagerOfUser("me@mydomain.com", function (result) {
  console.log(result.get_title());
});

Note that the result is of type SP.User

Answer 3

You can use REST API to get it easily:

_spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetMyProperties"

For more information, read Get Current Logged in User & Manager using REST API in SharePoint