So much information on how to autopopulate information for the current user or the logged in user in InfoPath. But what about other users? What if there's a field that's 99/100 times going to be the same person, but it's not the person that's logged in?
I would like not just to autopopulate a person field to be a specific user (which is not the current user), but I'd also like to autopopulate surrounding fields for that user's Title and Department.
For instance, consider the following 6 fields.
1. Current User Name:
2. Current User Title:
3. Current User Department:
4. Current User’s Supervisor’s Name:
5. Current User’s Supervisor’s Title:
6. Current User’s Supervisor’s Department:
I know how to get the first three; the internet is swarming with that information.
I'm struggling the last three; searching for this information is impossible without turning up information on current user instead.
The furthest I've gotten so far is to autopopulate Current User's Supervisor's Name by:
1. Show Advanced View on Fields pane
2. Expand my Field (which is really a group) called IT Manager Name
3. Expand what shows up under that which is pc:Person
4. Right click AccountId and choose Properties
5. Set Default value to [our domain]\[IT Manager's ads username]
This solves how to get that 4th field my example list above Current User's Supervisor's Name to autopopulate, but how do I then get the Title and Department from the value I set in step 5 [our domain]\[IT Manager's ads username]? Or is there a different/better way altogether to go about getting a non-current user's info to autopopulate in InfoPath form fields?