How can I get business unit details of the logged-in user with javascript? I tried Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext().userSettings but I couldn’t get any information for business unit
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Answer
If you write Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext().userSettings I assume you are working with client-side javascript inside a Model-driven app.
From the userSettings you can get the userId property, it returns the GUID of the current user.
After you have this value in order to get details from the business unit of the user you need to do a retrieve request, something like this:
// get the userId
var userId = Xrm.Utility.getGlobalContext().userSettings.userId;
// remove { and } from the userId
userId = userId.replace("{", "").replace("}", "");
// Xrm.WebApi call to retrieve details of the user (fullname)
// and the name of the businessunit (name from expand)
Xrm.WebApi.online.retrieveRecord("systemuser",
userId,
"?$select=fullname&$expand=businessunitid($select=name)").then(
function success(result) {
console.log(result);
// Columns
var systemuserid = result["systemuserid"]; // Guid
var fullname = result["fullname"]; // Text
// Many To One Relationships
if (result.hasOwnProperty("businessunitid")) {
var businessunitid_name = result["businessunitid"]["name"]; // Text
}
},
function(error) {
console.log(error.message);
}
);