Default value for people picker field

[Tony Bowes]

Just wanting to share a little win …

I wanted to set the currently logged in user as the default choice in a people picker field. Ideally I was hoping for it to be a column setting like other fields, but it doesn’t look like it is available anymore in SharePoint 2013. Googled up a few alternatives, but all looked clunky. Enter DFFS:

– New Rule: SetRequestorDefault
– Validate on: Form load
– If this trigger: Requestor is equal to <blank>
– Set field value: Requestor {currentUser}

Unfortunately this doesn’t trigger on bulk list edits, but making requestor a required field keeps it workable.

[Alexander Bautz]

Thanks for sharing 🙂

Alexander

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