I was working with several People Pickers in a form for a client project last week where I needed to set or get their values at various times in the page lifecycle. These things are pesky little compound controls, I often need to find them in the page, and I get tired of writing new script every …
Tag Archive: People Picker
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Nov 10 2010
Working with the People Picker: A Shortcut
The People Picker is the control you see on the page when a column or field needs to contain a user. (Not just the text representing a user’s name, which you should really almost never do, but the actual user object as understood by SharePoint.) It looks something like this. (This is an example from …
Permanent link to this article: http://sympmarc.com/2010/11/10/working-with-the-people-picker-a-shortcut/
Mar 16 2010
Set a People Picker’s Value on a Form – Revisited with jQuery
Jim Bob Howard (@jbhoward) always asks me good questions. Today he was interested in setting the value of a People Picker on a form with script. I pointed him at my old post about doing it with JavaScript, but we’re jQuery buddies, so I wanted to give him some jQuery instead. That and the fact …
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Jun 06 2008
Set a People Picker’s Value on a Form
Following up on my recent post about getting the current value of a People Picker on a form, today I built the JavaScript to set the value, and here it is. As usual, I’ve left in my debugging code in case you want to see how it works.
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May 08 2008
Get a People Picker’s Current Value on a Form
There’s a nice article over at the SharePoint Designer Team Blog about how to manipulate a List Form Field (AKA Data Form Field) using Javascript. It gives some great methods to accomplish this, but if you’d like to get the current value of a People Picker on a form (for validation purposes, most likely), the info …
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