Background Script to Get Manager Hierarchy via a recursive function

Server-Side Components/Background Scripts/Get Manager Hierarchy/Read.md

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+**Get the complete hierarchy of the managers for a given user.**
+This script uses a recursive function to fetch the complete list of managers for any given user. Consider the following example.
+<img width="929" height="298" alt="Screenshot 2025-10-20 at 1 29 11 AM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aeeb718c-e528-4ff7-b4e1-f3d5d9772791" />
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+In this example user Abel Tutor reports to Abraham Lincoln, Abrham reports to Adela Cervantsz, Adela reports to Aileen Mottern and so on.
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+In order to fetch this complete hierachy the getManagerHierachy script can be used. Here is the example of this script with output.
+<img width="1394" height="635" alt="Screenshot 2025-10-20 at 1 34 36 AM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/32fa4369-9743-4335-854f-63bdaf20f6e4" />
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Server-Side Components/Background Scripts/Get Manager Hierarchy/getManagerHierarchy.js

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+//Recursive function to get the complete manager hierarchy
+//Param 1: managerArray an Array to hold manager hierarchy
+//Param 2: next is representing next person in the manager hierarchy
+function getManagerHierarchy(managerArray, next) {
+	var glideRecord = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
+	if (glideRecord.get(next)) {//Check if there is a user record
+		managerArray.push(glideRecord.manager.name + '');//Add the user detail to the manager array
+		return getManagerHierarchy(managerArray, glideRecord.getValue('manager')); //Recursively call the same method to get the details of manager
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+	} else {//No more manager found return the array to callling function				
+		return managerArray.toString().split(',').join(" >> ").substring(0, managerArray.toString().split(',').join(" >> ").length-4);
+	}
+}
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+var managerArray = [];
+gs.info(getManagerHierarchy(managerArray, '22826bf03710200044e0bfc8bcbe5dec')); //Pass the sys_id of person here