Adding Default user for People Picker

[sharvancik]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Defaults for some fields are very changeling and require code. Defaulting a people-picker to the current user is a common default and is a lot of work to code each time.

Describe the solution you'd like

• There are times you might want to default the current user to a people field.
• There are times you might want to default the current user's email address or display name to a text field.
• Set a field to either the user, the email address, or the display name of some other field on the record (people field as the source).

Describe alternatives you've considered
Currently, I hard-code all of this either with JavaScript or use a workflow in getting the values.

Additional context

[DavidLozzi]

Great idea! Do you have a code sample @sharvancik of setting a person field to current user? If so, I can plug it in. if not, I can google ;)

[sharvancik]

<script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { // Wait until SP.JS has loaded before calling SetCurrentUsernameToPeoplePicker ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(SetCurrentUsernameToPeoplePicker, "clientpeoplepicker.js",2000); }); function SetCurrentUsernameToPeoplePicker() { var ctx = new SP.ClientContext.get_current(); this.website = ctx.get_web(); this.currentUser = website.get_currentUser(); ctx.load(currentUser); ctx.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, this.onSucceess), Function.createDelegate(this, this.onFail)); } function onSucceess(sender, args) { var loginName = currentUser.get_loginName(); var form = $("table[class='ms-formtable']"); // I believe get(0) is the index of which pp on the page. var userField = form.find("input[id$='ClientPeoplePicker_EditorInput']").get(0); var peoplepicker = SPClientPeoplePicker.PickerObjectFromSubElement(userField); peoplepicker.AddUserKeys(loginName); } function onFail(sender, args) { alert('request failed ' + args.get_message() + '\n'+ args.get_stackTrace()); } </script>

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On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 12:13 PM David Lozzi ***@***.***> wrote: Great idea! Do you have a code sample @sharvancik <https://github.com/sharvancik> of setting a person field to current user? If so, I can plug it in. if not, I can google ;) — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4?email_source=notifications&email_token=AIFS7IMYTDTTL5T6WKWVUY3QNS5UHA5CNFSM4I6KG452YY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOEAU5QHQ#issuecomment-539613214>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIFS7IOG3JVHNA7452MS7Q3QNS5UHANCNFSM4I6KG45Q> .

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