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People picker default to manager

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Posted on by DarrenBroers

I have a created a form in PowerApps from a SP list and have added the Office365User data source.

One of the fields is a people picker that currently allows a user to select their manager. I have done this by adding an Item that allows Choices.

This works fine and allows the user to manually select their manager.

However i wanted to enhance this to automatically default this field to the user's manager. I have tried many different ways of doing this and cannot seem to get it to work.

Does someone have a way to make this enhancement?

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Darren

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v-xiaochen-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @DarrenBroers ,

Please set the combo box's DefaultSelected Items property to:

With({Manager:Office365Users.ManagerV2(User().Email)},{ '@odata.type':"#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", Claims:"i:0#.f|membership|" & Manager.mail, Department:"", DisplayName:"", Email:Manager.mail, JobTitle:"", Picture:"" })

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DarrenBroers 6 on at

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Hi Wearsky
You mention set the combo box's DefaultSelected Items the above, but i dont have a combo box.
Does this mean i need to add a combo box into my form somewhere?

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Hi @DarrenBroers ,

Could you please tell me what the control you have for letting users select a manager is?

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DarrenBroers 6 on at

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Hi Wearshy
Its just a people picker field were the user can search for a person and select their manager.

What i would like is for the form to default to the logged in user's manager to appear by default.

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Hi @DarrenBroers ,

It is a combo box

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DarrenBroers 6 on at

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Hi Wearsky
OK. So if i add your code into the DefaultSelectedItem it accepts it without errors, but when i preview the form the field is not defaulting to my manager.

I do still have code in the Item field, but it i remove it, it still does not default to my manager.

Darren
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Hi @DarrenBroers

I hope you got it working by now, but just wanted to share what worked for me as I experienced the same behavior.

I got it working when I changed "Email" to "ID", see below in red.

{DisplayName: Office365Users.ManagerV2(varselectedpersonvalue.Id).displayName,
Claims:"i:0#.f|membership|" & Office365Users.ManagerV2(User().Email).mail,
Department:"",
Email: Office365Users.ManagerV2(User().Email).mail,
JobTitle:"",
Picture:""}
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Hi @DarrenBroers

The direction is right!

Try to add DisplayName into code snippet as below since I believe DisplayName is primary field your combobox displaying. If not specified, combo box will show nothing.

With({Manager:Office365Users.ManagerV2(User().Email)},{ '@odata.type':"#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", Claims:"i:0#.f|membership|" & Manager.mail, Department:"", DisplayName:Manager.displayName, Email:Manager.mail, JobTitle:"", Picture:"" })

Nelson