getCommonManager web service helps you to find the user common manager name but won’t allow you retrieve any personal information fields.
For this task we need to use another web service: getUserProfileByName.
We need to query this web service with manager AcountName to get the data. Sounds simple? It is!
Here is a step-by-step guide to help you through it:
Have you already seen this bug? When you create a new approval workflow for your InfoPath Form SharePoint Designer will create a very nice automatic task form for you, but…
When you click on the “Form” link in the notification bar (the part of “This workflow task applies to Form.” notification) you’ll get the “Open/Save file” dialog instead of a normal “Form Server based” form.
This issue is a hard one to explain to your customers if they don’t have InfoPath client installed on their machinesL
So after a little research I found a couple of important points:
