User profile in SharePoint workflow

User profiles can be used to fetch the user Manager, department, Title in SharePoint designer workflows.
This is not available in SharePoint 2013 workflow. However i can create 2010 workflow in SP2013 Sites, is there any way to get the user information from SharePoint 2013 workflow or Sharepoint 2013 in general to fetch the user details from Active Directory
to use in Sharepoint Online/O365.

Hi,
In addition to using Workflow Custom Activity to get User Profile properties, you could try using REST API web service. Please refer to Rajkumar's step in the thread below:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/7b1474b3-8ced-416a-a9b5-97e6ba05788e/getting-manager-name-from-spuserprofilespeoplemanager-rest-api-using-sharepoint-designer-workflow?forum=sharepointdevelopment
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/027ac79a-12da-4951-acd0-e06afe4d6ee6/get-the-department-of-a-user-in-workflow-2013
More reference for REST API endpoints:
http://www.vrdmn.com/2013/07/sharepoint-2013-get-userprofile.html
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Hi,
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Hi,
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I'm getting to the point were i just want to delete the whole service application and set it up anew...
any tips will be greatly appreaciated.
brgs
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Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click
Services.
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Close the Services console.
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The ProgramData folder may be hidden. To view the hidden folder, follow these steps:
On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
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do NOT delete the GUID folder and the Cache.ini file that is located in the GUID folder.
Double-click the Cache.ini file.
On the Edit menu, click Select All.
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Type 1, and then click Save on the
File menu. (Basically when you are done, the only text in the config.ini file should be the number 1)
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Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click
Services.
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