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December 12, 2017
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How do I populate the Manager field in the User standard object?

  • December 12, 2017
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What's the best way to populate the Manager field in the User standard MDA object?  It's a GSID field type so I can't just populate it with the manager's SFDC ID.

I was thinking of using a bionic rule to merge the manager's GSID with the CSM's GSID... is there a better way?  
    Best answer by kunal_bhat
    Hi Jeff,

    You're getting that error since the Manager field is already mapped in the direct mappings section, there's no more GSID fields left to add.

    You ned to unmap the Manager field from the Direct Mappings section which will allow you to add the Derived Mapping for Manager.

    To unmap the Manager field you need to set the source field as "None" as below.



    Once you've done that, you can configure your import lookup for Manager pretty much like what Kate has done.

    Thanks,
    Kunal

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    darkknight
    darkknight
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    December 27, 2017
    Kunal - apologies but I'm still struggling with this one.  My setup looks similar to Kate's but when I go to add a Derived Field Mapping it's telling me I need to add fields of datatype GSID.



    I created a Manager SFDC ID field in my MDA User table with type SFDCID - should it have been a GSID data type instead?  Looking at Kate's example, hers appears to be an SFDCID sfdcid also.  What am I missing?
    Jeff Kirkpatrick
    kunal_bhat
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    December 27, 2017
    Hi Jeff,

    You're getting that error since the Manager field is already mapped in the direct mappings section, there's no more GSID fields left to add.

    You ned to unmap the Manager field from the Direct Mappings section which will allow you to add the Derived Mapping for Manager.

    To unmap the Manager field you need to set the source field as "None" as below.



    Once you've done that, you can configure your import lookup for Manager pretty much like what Kate has done.

    Thanks,
    Kunal
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