How to plan for people picker in SharePoint?
Planning for People Picker largely depends on what forests and domains that you want users to be able to query, and what users, groups, and claims you want to display in query results. As you plan for the forests and domains that you want users to query, consider the following questions:
Can you use people picker on more than one domain?
If you want People Picker to return query results from more than one forest or domain, you must configure People Picker to use an encrypted account and password even if you have a one- or two-way trust between the forests or domains. For more information about trusts, see Managing Trusts.
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.
What does people picker do in claims mode?
In claims mode, People Picker searches and resolves queries that are based on the claims provider that is specified for the authentication method that is used by the web application and zone.
How to display a name from the people picker?
If you would like to have text box to display the name of the person or group column type defined in Sharepoint list, we could change the Text function of the Text box with the formula below: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Forum/How-to-display-a-name-from-the-people-picker-fie…
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.
How do I pick a SharePoint user name?
Just type in the field, it will show the User Name from the Active Directory who has a SharePoint license assigned to their User Profile. As we have initialized this div for Single selection, it will automatically handle it if more than one name is entered.