How to pull data from the 'Login User' record and populate a custom field.

[NathanWilkinson]

When you manually start the onboarding process there is no quick and easy way of seeing who ‘initiated’ the process.  Here is a small custom solution to help alleviate this. 

Create a business rule as follows.  We are going to build this rule to populate a custom field in employment information called ‘Recruiters Name’.  At first we added in the ‘Then’ statement = login user, but this just populates the person-id-external of the login user.  However, if you add in ‘login user’ as a variable, this will allow you to access the login user data via the ‘then' statement.

Result

This solution can be used to extract data from the login user’s profile in Onboarding or Employee Central