How can I get the current user's Manager with Web Request Control (Forms)

You can use an expression and in the for builder query the user profile?

Hi

Sorry about that, I was replying off of my phone so I couldn't shoot you any screenshots...

This is the control you are looking for in your toolbox on nintex forms: 

Drag it to where you want it on the form and double click it to configure.  Use the formula builder button to access named controls and the inline functions such as userProfileLookup.

In the below image, we are pulling the manager of the person entered into the "RequestedBy" named control.  We are then doing a userProfileLookup of that returned value to get the display name for the manager:

with the formula userProfileLookup(userProfileLookup(RequestedBy,"Manager"),"PreferredName")

if you wanted just the manager you would use:

userProfileLookup(RequestedBy, "Manager")

and if you don't want to look for the manager of the person chosen inside a control, you could replace RequestedBy with the Current User under the common tab in the formula builder.

Hope that helps... 

Patrick Kelligan​ ah I got you...  sorry about that!  Unfortunately I cannot be much more help in this instance but watching with interest to the thread now.  Keep me posted with whatever you find please?

Hi Patrick,

I managed to perform what you'd like to do with SharePoint 2013 OnPrem.

Firstly, I created a calculated value named CurrentUserLoginName with the following formula (Current User is the reference that you can found in Common tab and replace is the reference that you can found in Runtime Functions tab):

     replace(replace(Current User,":","%3A"),"#","%23")

Here's how I configured the Web Request control on Nintex Forms:

• Display format: Label
• Service Url (Site URL is the reference that you can found in Common tab and CurrentUserLoginName is the reference to the calculated value control that you can found in Named Controls tab): Site URL/_api/sp.userprofiles.peoplemanager/getpropertiesfor(@v)?@v='CurrentUserLoginName'
• Request method: GET
• Authentication type: Windows authentication
• Secure Store target application ID: myTargetAppID
• XPath for display: //*[local-name()='Key' and .='Manager']/../*[local-name()='Value']

Tell me if you have any problems with this solution.

Hope it works on your environment

it should look like this for the following login name :

You should replace @ by %40 and I think that's all.

I didn't managed to replace | by %7C but it worked for me if this character is in the url.

You can type the url in the browser (Chrome) and you should get a response or an error if something is wrong.

Hope it works

I have the same behaviour than you, that's why I didn't replace "|" by "%7C" and it works without this replacement.

You can try with the following : replace(replace(Current User,":","%3A"),"@","%40")

Hi Patrick,

Sorry for the delay.

Secure store is a bit tricky. I noticed that it works better with an Individual target application type.

Is it what you created?