Employee Center Menu Item show only to people with direct reports

[CCSF-Syd]

We use the Advanced Portal Navigation in Employee Center and we would like to conditionally show menu items only to managers (which we define as people who have direct reports) - is there a way to use the Menu Item "Condition" field to do this?

Thank you!

[satyaprakas]

Hi @CCSF-Syd ,

You can create a script include where you can check if user is a manager. Then you can call that script include from the condition field.

Sample Script include code - 

var UserManagerUtils = Class.create();
UserManagerUtils.prototype = {
initialize: function() {},

/*
* Check if the logged-in user is a manager based on the 'manager' field in the sys_user table.
* @returns {boolean} - True if the user is a manager, false otherwise.
*/
isManagerByHierarchy: function() {
var userSysId = gs.getUserID();
var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
if (gr.get(userSysId)) {
// Check if the user has direct reports (is a manager)
var directReports = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
directReports.addQuery('manager', userSysId);
directReports.query();
return directReports.hasNext();
}
return false;
},

type: 'UserManagerUtils'
};

Call the script include using below code in the condition field

javascript: new UserManagerUtils().isManagerByHierarchy();

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Regards,

Satya

[CCSF-Syd]

Got it, that's helpful. Is there no OOB way to check if someone is a Manager? How does Manager Hub do it I wonder

[Sajal Gupta]

@CCSF-Syd 

Do you use "Manager Hub" on Employee Center, If yes then you can use the gs.hasRole('sn_mh.manager_hub_user') in the condition of Menu Items.

If not then you can create a new role which would help you check if a person is manager or not and assign it to users with direct reports via a scheduled job or manually and still use a gs.hasRole('your_created_role') in menu item condition.

Regards

Sajal