Hi All, I have been working on a XPath filter to create a set of all Direct & Indirect reports of a CIO. Looking at Bobby & Nima's blog: I was hoping this filter: /Person[ descendant-in(‘Manager’ , /Person[DisplayName = ‘MyNameIsCIO’])] would do the trick. However, I do get the following exception when I try to use it: Microsoft.ResourceManagement: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Query.XPath.XPathBuilder.FixBareType(QueryNode node) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Query.XPath.XPathBuilder.EndBuild(QueryNode result) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Query.XPath.XPathParser`1.Parse(XPathScanner scanner, IXPathBuilder`1 builder, LexKind endLex) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.XPathParser.XPathDialectParser.ParseXPathExpression(String expression) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.XPathParser.XPathDialectParser.ParseEnumerate(String filter) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.DialectParser.ParseFilter(String serializedFilterType) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.ActionProcessor.FilteredResourceActionProcessor.FilteredResourceActionProcessHelper.ToQueryFilter(String serializedFilterType) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.ActionProcessor.FilteredResourceActionProcessor.FilteredResourceActionProcessHelper.TryParseFilter(String filterXml, QueryFilter&amp; queryFilter, Boolean&amp; temporal) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.ActionProcessor.FilteredResourceActionProcessor.FilteredResourceActionProcessHelper.DoPreProcessRequest(RequestType request) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.ActionProcessor.FilteredResourceActionProcessor.PreProcessRequestFromAttribute(RequestType request) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.ActionProcessor.ActionDispatcher.PreProcessRequestFromAttribute(RequestType request) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.CreateRequest(CreateRequestDispatchParameter dispatchParameter) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.CreateRequest(UniqueIdentifier requestor, UniqueIdentifier targetIdentifier, OperationType operation, String businessJustification, List`1 requestParameters, CultureInfo locale, Boolean isChildRequest, Guid cause, Boolean doEvaluation, Nullable`1 serviceId, Nullable`1 servicePartitionId) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.CreateRequest(UniqueIdentifier requestor, UniqueIdentifier targetIdentifier, OperationType operation, String businessJustification, List`1 requestParameters, CultureInfo locale, Boolean isChildRequest, Guid cause, Boolean doEvaluation) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManagementService.Put(Message request)</Data> And this exception too: System.InvalidOperationException: Invalid token in XPath expression Any thoughts what might be going wrong? Appreciate your help! Thanks & Regards, Jameel Syed Principal Consultant, fimGuru - Your window into simplified identities jameel.syed@fimguru.com - http://www.fimguru.com

Hi Jameel, The descendants() and descendant-in xpath functions are no longer available in query or sets in RTMPlease refer to the post @ http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ilm2/thread/5b78c6c4-1f2b-4743-a618-19138d79410e?prof=requiredThanks,Sri

Sri, Thanks for referring me to this post. What is the recommended alternative to descendants and descendants-in functions? I am sure there must be a better way of doing this which is why these functions were deprecated. Any thoughts? Thanks & Regards, Jameel Syed Principal Consultant, fimGuru - Your window into simplified identities jameel.syed@fimguru.com - http://www.fimguru.com

Hi... I made a Powershell Script that helped me. Here is a Powershell Script that writes in the console the name of the people that directly and/or indirectly reports to a manager. To use this script just type the manager's name after the script name. script.ps1 'manager name' set-variable -name URI -value "http://localhost:5725/resourcemanagementservice' " -option constant clear If($args.count -ne 1) {Throw "Type a Name!"} $ManagerName = $args[0] $Filter = "/Person[DisplayName='$ManagerName']" If(@(Get-PSSnapin | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "FIMAutomation"} ).count -eq 0) {Add-PSSnapin FIMAutomation} $curObject = export-fimconfig -uri $URI –onlyBaseResources -customconfig ($Filter) -ErrorVariable Err -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue If($Err){Throw $Err} If($curObject -eq $null) {Throw "Name not found!"} $attrObjectID = (($curObject.ResourceManagementObject.ResourceManagementAttributes | Where-Object {$_.AttributeName -eq "ObjectID"}).Value).split(":")[2] $Filter_Manager = "/Person[Manager = '$attrObjectID']" [array]$curObject_Direct = export-fimconfig -uri $URI –onlyBaseResources -customconfig ($Filter_Manager) -ErrorVariable Err -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue write-host "This people Direct Reports to $ManagerName" $arrayIndireto = @() foreach($DirectReport in $curObject_Direct) { write-host " +" ($DirectReport.ResourceManagementObject.ResourceManagementAttributes | Where-Object {$_.AttributeName -eq "DisplayName"}).Value $Direct = (($DirectReport.ResourceManagementObject.ResourceManagementAttributes | Where-Object {$_.AttributeName -eq "ObjectID"}).Value).split(":")[2] $Filter_Direct = "/Person[Manager = '$Direct']" [array]$curObject_Indirect = export-fimconfig -uri $URI –onlyBaseResources -customconfig ($Filter_Direct) -ErrorVariable Err -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue foreach($InDirectReport in $curObject_Indirect) { $Indireto = ($InDirectReport.ResourceManagementObject.ResourceManagementAttributes | Where-Object {$_.AttributeName -eq "DisplayName"}).Value if($Indireto.Length -gt 1) { $arrayIndireto += $Indireto } } } write-host "" write-host "This people Indirect Reports to $ManagerName" foreach($IndirectReport in $arrayIndireto) { write-host " --" $IndirectReport } write-host "" write-host "" Trap { Throw $_.Exception.Message Exit 1 } I hope that this will help you in anyway Cheers, ***** Paulo H. Campos - So Paulo/Brasil ***** http://identitypedia.blogspot.com (in PT-BR)