XML API Tips: User Manager Associations

A common workflow for Adobe Connect admins is to associate users to managers via the UI.

In the UI, you can navigate to the Administration > Users and Groups > {select a user} > Edit Team Members area to select users who will be direct reports of that manager.

This information will show up in the ‘My Profile‘ > Organization area for the user, where they will be able to see their Manager information (if they have a manager set) and their Team Members (if they are a manager themselves).

But with the XML API, this process is undocumented. Here’s how you accomplish this:

How do I associate a user to a Manager?

http://connectURL/api/xml?action=user-manager-update&manager-id=XXXXXXX&principal-id=XXXXXXX

Where:
action=user-manager-update
manager-id= principal-id of user who is going to be the manager
principal-id= principal-id of the user who is being assigned a manager

Note:
The user-manager-update call is UNDOCUMENTED.

Results:

<results>
<status code="ok"/>
</results>

How do I disassociate a user from a Manager?

http://connectURL/api/xml?action=user-manager-update&manager-id=XXXXXXX&principal-id=XXXXXXX

Where:
action=user-manager-update
manager-id= the account-id (‘7’ if an on-prem/Licensed customer or a longer numeric value for an Adobe Hosted customer)
principal-id= principal-id of the user who is being assigned a manager

Note:
The user-manager-update call is UNDOCUMENTED.

Results:

<results>
<status code="ok"/>
</results>

The below IS documented, however it is applicable to this post, so I will include it:

How do I list all direct reports of a Manager?

http://connectURL/api/xml?action=principal-list&filter-manager-id=XXXXXX

Where:
action=principal-list
filter-manager-id= the sco-id of the user who is the manager

Results:

<results>