Resolve user by display name

[Leonid]

Hi Alex and all,
Wondering if someone knows of the way to populate peoplepicker by user’s Display Name. Unfortunately neither email nor Account ID are available.

[Alexander Bautz]

Not sure what you mean – just use setFieldValue like this:

setFieldValue("Internal_name_of_people_picker", "Display name of user");

This will however NOT work if you have a comma in the user name – then you would have to get the login name like this:

function getUserByTitle(title){
    var user = spjs.utility.queryItems({
        "listName": "UserInfo",
        "query": "<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='Title' /><Value Type='Text'>User, Test</Value></Eq></Where>",
        "viewFields": ["ID","Name"]
    });
    return user.count > 0 ? user.items[0] : null;    
}
// Get the user like this:
var user = getUserByTitle("User, Test");
if(user !== null){
    setFieldValue("Internal_name_of_people_picker", user.Name);
}

Alexander

[Leonid]

Thanks Alex,
In fact, display name has a comma “Daw, A. John”, whereas UserInfo shows name as “John Daw”. I’ll keep digging

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