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I am retrieving my manager's display name into a label which is one of the fields on my form in canvas App. The formula am using is Office365Users.ManagerV2(Office365Users.MyProfileV2().mail).displayName. The result is coming up and being submitted to my data source. But after submission, an error pops up on the banner of the app saying "office365Users.ManagerV2 failed: The method 'ManagerV2' has an invalid value for parameter 'id'". Where am I doing wrong or is there an alternative?

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

@RameshMukka

To diagnose: put this code in the OnStart property of your app.

Set(varUserEmail, Office365Users.MyProfileV2().mail)

Then put this code in the Text property of a label you temporarily create for testing.

varUserEmail

Let me know the result.

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

Thank you. Sure, I will try that. Can you tell me why is that required? The formula I mentioned itself isn't supposed to do the job?

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

I did exactly what you suggested. Now I get the error as soon as I launch the app. But good news is am always able to submit the form. Can you further help me?

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

@RameshMukka

It definitely is supposed to do its job and not returning any email. That is why we are troubleshooting 😉

As a next step: could you could please try to obtain the User’s email by via this code instead:

User().Email

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

I did try that in the mean time with the below formula.

Office365Users.ManagerV2(User().Email).displayName

The error was the same.

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

@RameshMukka
If you type User().Email in Text property label does it show the email?

Another idea is: can you confirm a Manager is assigned to your account in Office365? This message could be occurring because there is no Manager.

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

It does show my email on a label when I used the function user(). Email.
My Manager display name also populates. Doesn't it mean I have the manager assigned in Office 365?

I also observed two different values for user().Email and Office365Users.MyProfileV2().mail. The values returned for both of these functions are not the same.

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

@RameshMukka
Your could try Office365Users.MyProfileV2().userPrincipleName instead of Office365Users.MyProfileV2().mail.

But yes, not having the manager in your Office365 account can cause the issue. You can check it by storing Office365Users.MyProfileV2() in a variable and looking for the manager property.

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

One quick question. I have 3 places am using this. Two times a label on my app and one time as field on my form. Where do you think this error is thrown on? Label or field? My bad, I am only changing label until now. My field in the form is still pointing to original formula.

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Re: Getting my manager display name throws error

@RameshMukka
No clue. Eliminate them one by one and experiment.

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