Is the client side people picker available in SharePoint?
The SharePoint people picker is already available in SharePoint as a server control, but now a days all are moving to client side based code since office 365 supports only client side. So we need to know how to be use people picker in client side. In this article we are going to see how to use client side people picker in SharePoint 2013.
How to get data from people picker with JavaScript?
If the form you are working in has a people picker then you are all set. Today I am going to show you all about getting user data from People Picker with JavaScript. The data you will be getting back from this call isn’t a full SPUser object or anything that detailed.
Where to find login ID in people picker?
This information is contained within the SPClientPeoplePickerEntity object that is returned in the process. Many fields are reused in the object. For example, the login ID is stored in the Description field, but it is also in the Key field. My suggestion is use the EntityData property as it contains all the fields above within it.
Are there techniques to do this from the client side?
While there are techniques to doing this from the client side using CSOM (Client Side Object Model) or REST APIs what if you didn’t need ALL the user’s information and just needed a few important parts of it. If the form you are working in has a people picker then you are all set.
How to set the people picker field in SharePoint 2013?
Since you are using SharePoint 2013 I would recommend you to consider the following approach. In SharePoint 2013 for rendering of List Views and Forms was introduced a Client Rendering Mode (CSR). Add Script Editor webpart right below the list view web part.
How to get the current user name in SharePoint?
Let’s use jQuery and SPServices to fetch the logged-in user name and fill the SharePoint list form’s people picker field value. In short, Call SPServices function: SPGetCurrentUser () to retrieve the get the current user.
How to get the picker object from the page?
Get the picker object from the page. Query the picker. The add-in in this example calls the GetAllUserInfo method to get all user information for the resolved users, and the GetAllUserKeys method to just get the keys for the resolved users. Get the user ID by using the JavaScript object model.