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How to error handle Get Manager (v2)

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I'm trying to condition the output of Get manager (v2). If it returns something, then do something. If it returns nothing (because the AD team didn't populate the users O365 profile properly), do something else. Checking if the manager name or email is null doesn't work here: in ~25% of use cases, the user profile has NO manager at all: there is no manager attribute data to check for null values. The Get manager (v2) call fails completely in these cases.

I've tried:

length(outputs('Get_manager_(V2)')?['body/value']) is equal to false

length(outputs('Get_manager_(V2)')?['body/value']) is equal to ""

length(outputs('Get_manager_(V2)')?['body']) is equal to false

length(outputs('Get_manager_(V2)')?['body']) is equal to ""

emptyoutputs('Get_manager_(V2)')?['body'] is equal to false
emptyoutputs('Get_manager_(V2)')?['body'] is equal to ""
emptyoutputs('Get_manager_(V2)')?['body/value'] is equal to false
emptyoutputs('Get_manager_(V2)')?['body/value'] is equal to ""
 
All fail
 

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mrcwojcik 68 on at

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Try something like this:

First you're fetching manager.

If this action fail -> go to Scope: not exist - and handle it how you want.

If this action will be success -> Scope not exist will be skipped and on Scope: exist but wrong data (use Configure after: is last action skipped) - and handle blanks, nulls or others.

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Ellis Karim 11,983 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @tpcolson,

[Updated: See blog post Fire ‘Get Manager (V2)’ in Power Automate – Graph API is the New Boss! – Ellis Karim's Blog]

Another approach you could try is to use the Office 365 Users "Send an HTTP request". This is not a premium connector:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<user-id>?$expand=manager($select=id,displayName,mail)

The user-id used in the Send an HTTP request is from the Get User profile (V2) action.

Using a Compose action, select the Manager property from the output of the Office 365 Users "Send an HTTP request":

body('Send_an_HTTP_request')?['manager']

Next, check to see of the Manager property is empty (i.e. the user doesn't have a Manager assigned):

Use the following expressions to extract the properties of the Manager: user-id (this is the UPN), display Name and email address:

outputs('Compose')?['id'] outputs('Compose')?['displayName'] outputs('Compose')?['mail']

If you want other properties, add these to URI of the Send an HTTP request". Here are some examples:

id deletedDateTime accountEnabled businessPhones city companyName country createdDateTime creationType department displayName givenName jobTitle mail mailNickname mobilePhone otherMails officeLocation postalCode

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