I was trying to find a simple way to get an Employee's Manager in a People field on a form. You can use a Calculated Field to display the Manager but I couldn't connect that directly to a People column. Also, in some cases, the Manager a person reports to is not always the Manager in their User Profile, so I wanted to give users the ability to select the appropriate manager as an alternative option. I found a few posts that used JavaScript to do this, but they seemed needlessly complicated. I used People Picker Extensions and JavaScript events in Nintex Forms as references and came up with a simpler solution (also, I'm using Nintex Forms Enterprise version 1.12.2.20).
First, I added a People Field for the Employee:
- Formula: Current User
- Store Client ID in JavaScript variable: Yes
- Client ID JavaScript variable name: Employee
Second, I added a People Field for the Manager:
- Default Value Source: Use connected field's default value
- Store Client ID in JavaScript variable: Yes
- Client ID JavaScript variable name: Manager
Then, I added a Calculated Field to the form with the following attributes:
- Formula: userProfileLookup(Employee,'Manager')
- Store Client ID in JavaScript variable: Yes
- Client ID JavaScript variable name: ManagerLan
Finally, I added the code into the Custom JavaScript in the form Settings:
NWF.FormFiller.Events.RegisterAfterReady(function() {
NWF$(document).ready(function(){
GetManager();
});
var emp = new NF.PeoplePickerApi('#'+Employee);
emp.added(function(){
var people = NWF$('#' + Employee).val().split(';');
if(people.length > 2){
emp.remove(people[0]);
}
GetManager();
});
});
function GetManager(){
setTimeout(function(){
var val = NWF$('#' + ManagerLan).val();
var mgr = new NF.PeoplePickerApi('#'+Manager);
if(val.length > 0){
mgr.clear();
mgr.search(val).done(function(data){
mgr.add(data[0]);
});
}
}, 1000);
}
The Manager people picker gets populated:
