Recently I had a simple requirement like leave approval
task. Whenever user submits a leave request, an email needs to be send user
manager. It is an easy task by providing the manager name in leave request
form. But we don’t have manager field here. So according the requirement we have to
get the manager assigned to specific user from AD.
We are not allowed to deploy the custom code for the
requirement. I thought there is no option to get the user manager assigned in AD from
designer WF. I have tried if there is any option to get user manager.
Surprisingly I have found the Option in designer workflow to get Manager Details and also it is available from 2007 version. Superb.
We can get the user manager details by using simple command
as shown below,
Search for command look up we can get “Find Manger” option
as shown below.
Select the User and manager and assign the user to manager
variable. Send email to the manager using Send mail command.
Simple. There are plenty of options are available in SharePoint
designer instead of going custom development. Hope this helps.
