Meta data error reference to itself

Looks like you have configured some automatic value or similar that includes a reference to the same property...?

That's right, I've configured the supervisor property to take the dynamic supervisor value

what is the best way to do it

What is it you want to achieve here? Dynamic values are generally fetched or calculated from a property on some related object or sometimes from other properties on the same object. It does not make sense to look for the property's own value - that would be a loop with no result.

Thank you very much for your guide.
I would like the supervisor, department and manager to be autopopulated from the current user.

CurrentUser is an item from the Users value list. Users do not have properties like supervisor, department and manager. I guess you have an Employee object with those properties, and your intention really is to indirectly lookup the values from Employee via the current user. That is more complicated than I can explain at this time of day (evening here). If someone else is more fresh minded, they might chip in with their ideas. Otherwise, I may find some time to describe a solution one of the coming days.

CurrentUser is an item from the Users value list. Users do not have properties like supervisor, department and manager. I guess you have an Employee object with those properties, and your intention really is to indirectly lookup the values from Employee via the current user. That is more complicated than I can explain at this time of day (evening here). If someone else is more fresh minded, they might chip in with their ideas. Otherwise, I may find some time to describe a solution one of the coming days.

Hi Bright,

I really appreciate your guidance ... do you have some time today

Sorry, no time available for now. I remember having seen someone describe a solution for a similar setup on this forum. With a bit of luck you can find it yourself. Try searching for Employee and CurrentUser or just User and see what comes up.

BR, Karl

Hi Arnauld,

You should check out the manual Configuring the M-Files Metadata Card found at https://kb.cloudvault.m-files.com/Default.aspx#3ECA226F-7B54-428B-B539-DE443E6134EC/object/13782C11-3A00-4CA7-A033-7A2F3C8555A6/latest

Section 4.9 describes how to use placeholders in Set Values.
Section 4.10 has an example that comes pretty close to your requirements.

Hope this gets you back on track.
BR, Karl