How To: Add multiple people to People picker

Forms SharePoint Online
1

I am trying to programmatically add people to a People picker set to accept multiple people. I can't seem to get it to work. I have tried:

fd.field('People').value = [9, 17];

fd.field('People').value = ["9", "17"];

var array = [9, 17];
for (i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
fd.field('People').value[i] = array[i];
}

2

Hello @smithme,

You need to use either Display Name or Email, like this:

fd.field('PeoplePicker').value = ['Elizabeth Holmes', 'Jane Doe']
3

What I am trying to do with this is duplicate a list item. This list item has a People picker that allows multiple people. When I query the template list item using:

var web = new Web('https://mysharepoint.sharepoint.com/');
web.lists.getByTitle('Tickets').items.filter("TemplateId eq " + temp + " and TemplateTickets eq 'Parent'").getAll().then(function(items) {
    items.forEach(function(item, index) {
        console.log(item);
       // Set field values
    });
});

In the People picker (from the template list item) I get:

PeopleId: [9, 17]
PeopleStringId: ["9", "17"]

That means, I will have to query SharePoint for each user to get the name or email address. I am trying to do that with:

var web2 = new Web('https://mysharepoint.sharepoint.com/');
web2.getUserById(9).then(function(user) {
    // do something with user
});

or

var web2 = new Web('https://mysharepoint.sharepoint.com/');
var user = web2.getUserById(9);
console.log(user);

With the first example I get the error the "then is not a function". With the second example I get "user is a promise undefined".

How do I turn the SharePoint index (ID) into the user email or name?

4

I also tried to query the user list at:

https://mysharepoint.sharepoint.com/_catalogs/users/detail.aspx

But this doesn't seem to find anything. I don't get any errors.

5

I am getting this to work but I am getting different answer depending on the subsite.

var id = 17;
var web = new Web('https://mysharepoint.sharepoint.com/sites/subsite');
web.getUserById(id).get().then(u => {
    console.log(u);
});
6

@smithme,

Why do you need to define a site url?
You can get user email:

var userID = 19;
pnp.sp.web.getUserById(userID7).get().then(function(user){
	console.log(user.Email)
})