Departments in Chats: Overview of Methods

The methods im.department.* retrieve information about users in departments from the company's structure. They only work for company employees.

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Department. The methods obtain information about users by the department identifier ID. You can get the department identifier using the get department list method or the search departments by name method.

Get Department DataGet Department Data

The method im.department.get retrieves the department name and the identifier of the manager. By using the parameter USER_DATA = 'Y', you can include data about the department manager in the response.

Get User ListGet User List

You can obtain lists of user identifiers using the following methods:

• im.department.managers.get — managers of the specified departments,
• im.department.employees.get — employees of the specified departments,
• im.department.colleagues.list — list of colleagues of the current user. For a manager, the method will return a list of subordinates and all managers.

By using the parameter USER_DATA = 'Y', you can get detailed information about each employee.

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Scope: im

Who can execute the method: any intranet user, except for bots

Method	Description
im.department.get	Retrieves information about the department
im.department.managers.get	Retrieves a list of department managers
im.department.employees.get	Retrieves a list of department employees
im.department.colleagues.list	Retrieves a list of colleagues of the current user