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In your people picker column settings, change the “Allow selection from” to “People and groups”. Then change the “Choose From” to “SharePoint Group” and in the drop-down choose the list you created. How to use this nifty little thingie?
How to add AD groups to people picker?
Add the AD groups from your list in Step 1 to this SP group. Remove any individual account (such as yours) from the group. In your people picker column settings, change the “Allow selection from” to “People and groups”. Then change the “Choose From” to “SharePoint Group” and in the drop-down choose the list you created.
How to limit the selection of people picker?
When a web application is configured to use Windows authentication, you can limit the suggested results by using the Stsadm setproperty operation to change the settings for the People Picker control.
When to use people picker and claims Providers?
When a web application is configured to use claims-based authentication, People Picker uses claims providers to resolve and display users, groups, and claims in the user or group text box. The information that SharePoint displays depends on the claims provider that is used by the authentication method that was configured for the web application.
Here is my collection of PowerShell scripts to work with people picker field values: PowerShell script to get value of Person or Group field. SharePoint PowerShell to get person or group field. ← The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or Managed Metadata Web Service may not have been started.
How to restrict people picker to site groups?
In the site collection there are 4 groups lets say – A,B,C,D. When user creates a new item (document set), in newform.aspx, I want to restrict the people picker of “Docowner” column to only Site groups, as currently it is showing all users who are there in SharePoint online.