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I have a few issues I need help on with AD

Feb 04, 2013 07:02 PM|LINK

Hello again Experts,

I have 3 questions but I will be grateful for help with just one.

I have the following dropdownlist that gets populated from Active Directory.

I will like to make a few changes and I am not really sure how to get started.

First the code:

Private Sub FillEmplList()
        Dim oroot As DirectoryEntry = New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=domain.com,DC=NO...")
        Dim osearcher As DirectorySearcher = New DirectorySearcher(oroot)
        Dim oresult As SearchResultCollection
        Dim result As SearchResult
        Dim list As New List(Of String)

        osearcher.Filter = "(&(objectClass=user))" ' search filter
        osearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("cn") ' username
        osearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("name") ' full name
        osearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("givenname") ' firstname
        osearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("sn") ' lastname
        osearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("mail") ' mail
        osearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("initials") ' initials
        osearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("ou") ' organizational unit
        osearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("userPrincipalName") ' login name
        osearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("distinguishedName") ' distinguised name
        oresult = osearcher.FindAll()

        For Each result In oresult
            If Not result.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties("name").Value Is Nothing Then
                list.Add(result.GetDirectoryEntry.Properties("name").Value.ToString())
            End If
        Next
        myname.DataSource = list
        myname.DataBind()
    End Sub

In additon to this dropdownlist, there are a few textboxes we like to get populated when a user name is selected from the dropdownlist above.

First question, when a user selects a username from the dropdownlist, we will like textboxs such as dept, telephone, office, etc to be populated based on selelected username from the dropdownlist

Second quetsion, we have another dropdownlist that gets populated, again from Active Directory.

This dropdownlist is filled with Department Supervisors. If I select my username from the first dropdownlist(above), we would like my supervisor's name to be automatically selected in the second dropdownlist.

Is this very difficult to accomplish?

Last question, when the first dropdownlist (the one shown above) is loaded, we would like the name of the logged in user to be default option on the dropdownlist.

I would be glad for solutions to all 3 issues but I am more than grateful to you experts for any help on any of the 3 issues.

Thanks a lot in advance