Qdabra Active Directory Web Service

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

ErnestoM — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:54:30 GMT

Hi,

Can you let me know which one of our products you are trying? They are listed here: http://www.qdabra.com/en/products/WebService.aspx

Thanks!

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

maro123 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:27:28 GMT

well I am making an infopath form which I am using in sharepoint list. I need to get the departments and branches, which are in AD, of the users logged in the form. Do you have any idea how i can get this?

Thank you!

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

ErnestoM — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:06:41 GMT

Hi,

If you're using DBXL, you'll find step by step instructions here. If you're using the Active Directory standalone tool, you can read the steps here.

Let us know if these documents fail to clarify the issue. Thanks!

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

maro123 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:58:02 GMT

Can you tell please how to add a data connection for the GetMyInfo method, I have problem in the location of the SOAP Web Service definition part(what URL should I write there?)?

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

kthomasl@yahoo.com — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:34:47 GMT

Thanks ya'll

After reading about your AD web service, sounds like it would be a good optoin. I will continue to investigate how that might help us.

I was able to accomplish the goal of getting the supervisor's email by concatinating a substring of the Manager and our email domain, like so: concat(substring-after(Value[Name = "Manager"], "\"), "@clydeinc.com"). not to shabby for a novice eh?

Another questoin is, we would like to create a form and make it available to HR so as to allow them to create users in AD. This form would have to make a round trip or two to AD so they can choose a valid username. Do you know of any way to accomplish that without purchasing your AD web service product?

Kyle

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

Patrick Halstead — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:25:36 GMT

Hi Kyle,

Sorry for delay in responding. I was on vacation last week. Maybe you already figured out the issue. So, you're using the SharePoint web service method to get the user name. Sounds good. However, this post talks about our Active Directory web service which is different from SharePoint's. I'm not sure if SharePoint provides the manager support or not. Our's does (see above post from Jimmy).

Cheers

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

Jimmy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:18:14 GMT

Qdabra's AD Service now has a method GetManagerAlias that accepts an employee alias as a parameter and returns the alias of their manager, if there is a manager assigned to them. This can be used to retrieve the manager's information and get their e-mail address. It's possible that this can't be accomplished using SharePoint's UserProfileService, but I can't say that with 100% certainty as I have not used it.

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

Christopher Sorel — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:07:18 GMT

Kyle

I had this trouble at first. I have Windows 2003 server with sharepoint services v3 with a Infopath 2007 form. I thought I needed the email address and actually you do not. Outlook handled the porcess with just Manager name in a field. Then in the submitting of the form I put the manager field in the to. Then once approved the form then goes onto the next person.

Chris

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

ErnestoM — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:07:13 GMT

Hi Kyle, you'd have to call GetUserInfo using the manager's alias as the input parameter. When the form opens and calls GetManagerAlias, the next action (perhaps thru rules) that executes is using that manager's alias to call GetUserInfo. Do you think that would work?

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

kthomasl@yahoo.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:56:17 GMT

Patrick

I realize your post is old, but very relavant to me. I have an issue where I am designing a form that will be published on our SharePoint site. The form is currently set to bring in upon page load, my name (FirstName), my email (WorkEmail) address and my (Manager) in the form of DOMAIN\username. I accomplished this using a data connection called GetUserProfileByUsername which is calling the SharePoint webservice with the same name. What I need is to bring in my managers email address into a hidden field in the form upon form load. The form would be filled out and upon submit, the form would be emailed to the appropriate supervisors email.

Any hints or help would be greatly appreciated.

Kyle

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

Christopher Sorel — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:49:37 GMT

Yes I have it. I am playing around with GetUserInfo but still need to type something it and hit the button. Should be able to use GetUserInfo some way in code to get the mangers email address.

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

Clay Fox — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:43:35 GMT

So you already have it.

I will check on the status of the documentation for the AD Service.

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

Christopher Sorel — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:41:12 GMT

Clay thanks but not ready to implement that much yet. Just looking to use your AD Service better than I am right now. The user has to type in their managers email address to get the forms to go and this should be filled in for them.

Chris

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

Clay Fox — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:51:19 GMT

The Active Directory Web Service is included with our Database Accelerator Product. Not sure if you have tried DBXL, but it really makes deploying and utilizing your InfoPath forms across the enterprise much easier and gives you as an admin much more ocntrol and security.

The AD Service is pretty slick too.

Here is the link. http://www.qdabra.com/proddetail.asp?prod=QDBXL1

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Re: AD Service: How-To Set Field to GetMyInfo Result

Christopher Sorel — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:24:16 GMT

Patrick,

Do you have the code sample since I can not seem to find it?