Getting users job title in Sharepoint List - sharepoint

Question

So I have a SP Online list, that every user can submit his entries. I have a default column of "created by", where the user, that submited the entry is listed. I'd like to have 2 other columns, to get users Department and Job Title copied automatically from users account. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Method 1:
You can use the JSOM to set the Department/JobTitle. Because we don't sure where your user from(AD or some else )
First of all you need to load the “SP.UserProfiles.js, SP.Runtime.js and SP.js” js files on your SharePoint page, use following code snippet to load these files,
$(document).ready(function () {
var scriptbase = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_layouts/15/";
$.getScript(scriptbase + "SP.Runtime.js",
function () {
$.getScript(scriptbase + "SP.js",
function () {
$.getScript(scriptbase + "SP.UserProfiles.js", GetUserInformation);
});
});
});
var userProfileProperties;
function GetUserInformation() {
// Get the current client context.
var clientContext = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
//Get Instance of People Manager Class
var peopleManager = new SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager(clientContext);
var targetUser = "domain\\userId";
userProfileProperties = peopleManager.getPropertiesFor(targetUser);
//Execute the Query.
clientContext.load(userProfileProperties);
clientContext.executeQueryAsync(onSuccess, onFail); }
function onSuccess () {
// get user information from userProfileProperties and set to your target column.
userProfileProperties.get_userProfileProperties()['Department'];
userProfileProperties.get_userProfileProperties()['SPS-JobTitle'];
// To do: list item replace operation
}
function onFail (sender, args) {
alert("Error: " + args.get_message());
}
Reference:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj679700.aspx
Method 2: Workflow
When user add/edit a item,we trigger the workflow to copy the user's department/JobTitle to target column
Reference for get the Department/Jobtitle.
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/97971/get-current-user-information-and-add-to-email-action-in-workflow