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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>

SharePoint Color Picker field

Andy Bonner — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:21:00 GMT

Well it's been a long time since I last posted so thought I'd share with you how easy it is to make a custom field type within SharePoint.

Check out this New Article

And see for yourself.

Visual Studio 2005 is configuring the environment for first time use

Andy Bonner — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:25:00 GMT

Every now & then I would get the first time launch message appearing when I was starting up VS 2005, which wasted lots of time & I finally got around to googling a solution.

It turned out that it was a problem with using roaming profiles ( I switch between virtual machines quite often for various development requirements which I thinks what causes it) & I found the solutions in this MSDN article

But I'll post it here as well for future reference

When any one of the Visual Studio family of products is used with Windows Roaming Profiles, the first time launch message that says "Visual Studio 2005 is configuring the environment for first time use. This might take a few minutes." might appear on every session startup. This might cause unnecessary slowdowns in startup performance.

To resolve this issue

Click on the Tools > Options... Select "Import and Export Settings", and change the path under "Automatically save my settings to this file:" to a path that is NOT under the "My Documents" directory.

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