Possible Bug in getFieldValue on Display Form for MultiUserField

[Christopher Holubarz]

Hi Alexander,

I’ve encountered a strange behaviour in getFieldValue for a MultiUserField in the Display Form for an Item:

If I execute getFieldValue (does not matter if only with Field name or with delimiters and “True” for dispform) it get the User Names concatenated to each other without any delimiter in one single string block. However for edit and new form it works without any problem.

Is there something I’m doing wrong or is there some strange behaviour in the disp form ?

Thank you very much in advance.

BR,
Chris

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
You are correct – the code used in getFieldValue for multichoice people pickers doesn’t work correctly. I think maybe SP has changed how the values are displayed in DispForm.

I’ll fix it in the next release, but in the meantime you can use this format instead of getFieldValue:

spjs.dffs.beforeProperties.YourPeoplePickerFieldInternalName

Alexander

[Christopher Holubarz]

Hi Alexander,

Thank you for the feedback. Unfortunately your suggested format returns an empty array, but the field has 2 persons inside actually (see attached Screenshot)

Do you have any other suggestion for me ?

Thank you very much and BR,
Chris

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[Alexander Bautz]

You can put this function in your custom js:

function getPeoplePickerInDispForm(fin){
	var b = [];
    jQuery("#dffs_"+fin+" td.ms-formbody a").each(function(i,a){
        if(jQuery(a).attr("onclick").match("GoToLinkOrDialogNewWindow") !== null){
            b.push(a.innerText);
        }
    });
	return b;
}

Then use this to get the value:

var pp = getPeoplePickerInDispForm("FieldInternalName");

Let me know how this works.

Alexander

[Christopher Holubarz]

Hi Alexander,

Thank you very much, your last solution works like a charm 🙂

BR,
Chris

[Alexander Bautz]

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll include this change in the next version of SPJS-Utility.js.

Best regards,
Alexander

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