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How to create a Saved Search that will return only the PO's that belongs to the user's Department?

edited Jun 2, 2025 2:49PM in Ask A Guru 7 comments

Hello!

I am creating a saved search to show purchase orders. The condition I am trying to set is based on the parent department of the user who is running the search.

For example, we have the following structure:

EXECUTIVE : CEO : PARENT DEPARTMENT : CHILD DEPARTMENT

If a person from the Child Department runs the search, he/she should be able to see all the POs belonging to the parent department plus it's sub departments.

I am trying to compare the parent department of the PO with the parent department of the user running the search.

The problem is that User:Department returns a string like

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