Auto populate Manager in reference field

[Mohammed Amine1]

Hi,

How can I auto populate a reference variable in a catalog Item field using a Catalog client script?

I want to display the manager of the current logged user.

I already managed to display the current logged user info.

This is the begining of the script : 

function onLoad() {

    g_form.setValue('current_user', g_user.userID);
    g_form.setValue('current_user_manager',     .....     );

}

Thanks for any help.

[Basheer]

Hi @Mohammed Amine1 ,

As you need the details of the manager you can do it in 2 ways 

1) Display BR + Client Script

2) Client Script + Script Include

According to your query I would recommend option 1

Code as below in Display BR

var user = gs.getUser();
var manager = user.manager;
g_scratchpad.manager = manager;

In your client script as below

function onLoad() {
    var manager = g_scratchpad.manager;
    g_form.setValue('current_user', g_user.userID);
    g_form.setValue('current_user_manager',manager);
}

[Mohammed Amine1]

Thank you !

[Saloni Suthar · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mohammed Amine1 

You can also add default value in your reference variable to populate the manager of the logged in user:

[Chalan B L]

Hello Mohammed,

You can choose two different ways to accomplish this
1) use this script Javascript:gs.getUser().getManagerID() in a default value of the manager variable
2) Old way : get the referenced value from GlideAjax and set the value [ Do let me know if you need script for the same]

Mark correct if it helped you

Regards,

Chalan