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Auto-populate person look-up as the manager of a nominated person (not current user)

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Hi, I have a PowerApp based on a SharePoint custom list. It contains a person look-up card whereby the form submitter nominates a particular person (Employee). When this person is entered I would like a separate manager card (person look-up) to automatically populate as this person's manager.

The person is not the current user. The manager is based on whoever is selected.

The only posts I can find on this topic assume the user is the current user which is not the case for this form.

does anyone know the syntax required in the manager field default setting? I am connected to Office365Users service... just can't work out the syntax. Something like: Office365Users.ManagerV2(Employee datacardvalue :User().DisplayName})???

Thanks.

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Brice235i 651 on at

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Hi, I managed to work this out...
NameDatacard is the person look-up field from who the ancilliary fields are derived.

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Set(gvCurrentUser, Office365Users.MyProfileV2());
Set(gvCurrentManager, Office365Users.ManagerV2(gvCurrentUser.userPrincipalName))
NameDatacard
OnChange -
Set(gvCurrentManager, Office365Users.ManagerV2(NameDataCardValue.Selected.Email));Set(varManager,gvCurrentManager)

ManagerDatacard
DefaultSelectedItems
{DisplayName: gvCurrentManager.displayName,
Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & gvCurrentManager.userPrincipalName}

Department
Default
First(Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm:NameDataCardValue.SearchText})).Department

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Thanks for posting this information, I was trying to do the same and found it very helpful 😃

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abhivijayakumar 4 on at

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If I'm the current user, I'm not able to get my Manager's Managerfield in person/group field. Could anyone help?

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