How to get list of Users under a certain Manager/Approver in Coupa API? - api

Question

I'm lost and I'm hoping that someone may have worked on this before.
So Coupa has its API:
https://coupadocs.atlassian.net/wiki/display/integrate/Users+API
I was able to retrieve user information together with the corresponding manager. Sample response:
https://unknownserver-test.coupahost.com/api/users?employee-number=10003323
[
{
"id": 2756,
"created-at": "2017-03-30T09:29:19-05:00",
"updated-at": "2017-03-31T04:30:53-05:00",
"login": "user1.user1",
"email": "staging23#coupa.com",
"purchasing-user": false,
"expense-user": false,
"sourcing-user": false,
"inventory-user": false,
"employee-number": "10003323",
"phone-work": null,
"phone-mobile": null,
"firstname": "user1",
"lastname": "user1",
"fullname": "user1 user1",
"api-user": false,
"active": false,
"salesforce-id": null,
"account-security-type": 0,
"authentication-method": "coupa_credentials",
"sso-identifier": null,
"default-locale": null,
"default-account": null,
"business-group-security-type": null,
"edit-invoice-on-quick-entry": false,
"avatar-thumb-url": null,
"mention-name": "user1user1",
"company-employee-id": "10003323",
"netsuite-employee-id": "10003323",
"subsidiary": {
"id": 1592,
"external-ref-num": null,
"external-ref-code": "company North America:1"
},
"job-title": {
"id": 2591,
"external-ref-num": null,
"external-ref-code": "VP, Sales"
},
"employee-type": "",
"default-expense-region": "",
"default-geo-spend": "",
"notes": "",
"exclude-from-autosarf": "",
"roles": [
{
"id": 10,
"name": "Expense User"
}
],
"manager": {
"id": 838,
"login": "john.doe",
"email": "staging#coupa.com"
},
"default-currency": {
"id": 1,
"code": "USD"
},
"department": {
"id": 342,
"name": "Sales - Exec:176"
},
"expenses-delegated-to": [],
"can-expense-for": [],
"content-groups": [],
"account-groups": [],
"approval-groups": [],
"working-warehouses": [],
"inventory-organizations": [],
"created-by": {
"id": 2748,
"login": "user1 creator",
"email": "user1.creator#company.com"
},
"updated-by": {
"id": 2748,
"login": "user1 creator",
"email": "user1.creator#company.com"
}
}
]
What I've tried are these:
https://unknownserver-test.coupahost.com/api/users?user[manager][id]=838&return_object=shallow
https://unknownserver-test.coupahost.com/api/users?manager[id]=838&return_object=shallow
https://unknownserver-test.coupahost.com/api/users?users[user][manager][id]=838&return_object=shallow

Answer 1

https://{{URL PREFIX}}.{{HOST}}.com/api/users?manager_id=838&return_object=shallow
If you only need the IDs of the users, you'd get better performance with return_object=limited
If there are more than 50 users returned, you'll have to paginate with the offset query param.