gehus (gehus) asked a question.
Mapping the Manager and Employee ID Fields
We're 100% Okta mastered for our org and building from scratch. What is the preferred method of mapping manager data in Okta?
For example my employee id is 11 and my manager is 3. Normally I would put my employee number = 3 and my managers employee number as 3. Then under my profile my managerid = 3.
I'm seeing this isn't working very well under workflows for referencing a lookup value. So with this in mind what is the Okta best practice, I'm assuming it's Okta User ID. Though I'm not sure how that will work with HCM mastered down the road.
Thank you for reaching out!
At this time, Active Directory is the only supported value for managerSource.
Please check the manager function in our documentation below:
https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/okta-expression-language/#manager-assistant-functions
Best Regards
Thanks though I'm not sure how it relates to the expression language?
Using custom APIs in workflows its achievable.
Can you describe which API endpoint you're referencing?