How to get manager property from a users request

Question

The query https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$select=id&$expand=manager does not return any information about manager! (same result using the beta version)

Is there a solution to get the manager navigation property using the graph API ?

Answer 1

It doesn't appear that this scenario is supported at this time.

You'll have to do more than one call to get the manager property.

1) Get the list of users: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users

2) Get the manager per each user https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/f6672f23-134d-47a1-8da8-a0671f3cf3f3/manager

Answer 2

This seems to work fine on the beta endpoint. Try the following example in the Graph Explorer https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer:

https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$expand=manager

But some other queries don't work like expected so be careful how you use select:

https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users?$expand=manager($select=id,displayName)