How to set SharePoint People Picker default value to current user through javascript

Andy Bonner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:08:00 GMT

I found this great POST by the SharePoint Designer team for “Using Javascript to Manipulate a List Form Field”. Unfortunately it didn't work very well for People Picker fields which is exactly what I needed to do today.

After some trial and error, and a bit of head scratching I finally came up with the follow which I thought I'd share, since when I was searching for a solution I found a lot of people in a similar situation with no solution posted.

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fillPeoplePickerWithCurrentUser('Submitted_x0020_By');

}

function fillPeoplePickerWithCurrentUser(pickerName)
{

//get the current user from the welcome menu
var currentUser = getCurrentUser();

//check to see that we've got it
if(currentUser != null)
{

//get the people pickers input div
var pp = getPickerInputElement(pickerName);
//set it to the current user if we've found it
if(pp != null)

pp.innerHTML = currentUser;

}

}

function getCurrentUser()
{

var tags = document.getElementsByTagName('a');

for (var i=0; i < tags.length; i++)
{

if(tags[i].innerText.substr(0,7) == 'Welcome')
{

return tags[i].innerText.substr(8,tags[i].innerText.length);

}

}

function getPickerInputElement(fieldsInternalName)
{

var result = "";
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName("DIV");
for(var i=0; i < divs.length ; i++)
{

if(divs[i].id=="WebPartWPQ2")
{

var tds = divs[i].getElementsByTagName("TD");
for(var j=0; j < tds.length; j++)
{

var cellHTML = tds[j].innerHTML;

if(cellHTML.indexOf('FieldInternalName="' + fieldsInternalName + '"') >= 0)
{

var innerDivs = tds[j].getElementsByTagName("DIV");
for(var k=0; k < innerDivs .length; k++)
{

if(innerDivs[k].id.indexOf("UserField_upLevelDiv") > 0)
{

result = innerDivs[k];
break;

}

}
return result;

}
</script>

Get list of site users in InfoPath form

Andy Bonner — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:40:00 GMT

Having got past the last hurdle I then had a need for getting a list of all the site users into a Drop Down list which has spawned this second article

Get the Full user name in web hosted InfoPath Form

Andy Bonner — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:36:00 GMT

I had the need the other day to get hold of a users full name within a web hosted InfoPath form and although I could easily get hold of the login name I couldn't get hold of the users full name.

After some playing around I came up with the method I describe in this article which I hope someone else will find useful

WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007

How to set SharePoint People Picker default value to current user through javascript

Get list of site users in InfoPath form

Get the Full user name in web hosted InfoPath Form