Lookup manager from one table to put in another

[Jeff Lynch]

This may be a redundant question and advance apology if it is but:
I am trying to populate a people picker field in a list with the people picker value from another list where the Title of the other list matches the selected field of the new list.

I could make a cascading dropdown that only has one value but how can i make it so that it automatically populates those related people picker values on save?

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
Use something like this that you trigger on change rule on the field in the “new list”:

function getPPValueFromAnotherList(){
    var res, searchVal, item, ppId, ppLogin;
    searchVal = getFieldValue("ChoiceColumnInNewList");
    res = spjs.utility.queryItems({"listName":"ListNameOfOtherList","query":"<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='FieldToSearchInOtherList' /><Value Type='Text'>"+searchVal+"</Value></Eq></Where>","viewFields":["PeoplePickerField"]});
    if(res.count > 0){
        item = res.items[0];
        if(item.PeoplePickerField!== null){
            ppId = item.PeoplePickerField.split(";#")[0];
            ppLogin = spjs.utility.userInfo(ppId).Name;
            setFieldValue("PeoplePickerFieldInNewList",ppLogin);
        }
    }
}

• Change “ChoiceColumnInNewList” with the fieldinternalname of the field in the new list.
• Change “FieldToSearchInOtherList” with the fieldinternalname of the field to find the matching value in the other list.
• Change “PeoplePickerField” with the fieldinternalname of the field in the other list where the person is found.
• Change “PeoplePickerFieldInNewList” with the fieldinternalname of the peoplepicker field in the new list.
• Change “ListNameOfOtherList” with the display name or GUID of the other list.

Hope this helps you on the way.

Alexander

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Alexander Bautz. Reason: Added missing info

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