Controls

Re: People Populated by rule: works on new records but not when editing an existing record

Ravindra — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:16:30 GMT

I am also facing same issue for old values and did not saw the any setting for post back on this info path people picker control. There is no setting Always or Never like other controls how can we force this post back. People picker control is working fine when its get one post back then it display the proper person name.

Re: People Populated by rule: works on new records but not when editing an existing record

AmyAnd — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:47:28 GMT

I'm having the exact same issue and can't come up with a fix either. Anyone know how to fix this, or at least know WHY the rules work in a new form, but not editing an existing form? It's driving me nuts.

Trying the Account ID = UserName() didn't work either. Well... it works in a new form, but not editing an existing one. Same problem. I'm not sure what you mean by "setting the People Picker's browser settings to always postback." Can you clarify?

Re: People Populated by rule: works on new records but not when editing an existing record

Anson Hidajat — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:45:30 GMT

Have you tried just setting the AccountID to userName() and then setting the people picker browser settings to always postback?

People Populated by rule: works on new records but not when editing an existing record

ContraCorners — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:26:08 GMT

I am using InfoPath 2010 to modify a SharePoint 2010 list form. The site is in a Sandboxed environment if that matters.

My form has three (3) fields that are relevant to this question - a checkbox, a people-picker and a date field. The users will use these field to certify that they have reviewed certain pieces of data on the site (and elsewhere) and found the data to be correct. I want this to be as easy as possible so that when a user checks the box, the people picker will be automatically filled with their name and the date field filled with the current date and time.

So here's what I did:

I put a rule on the checkbox so that when the user checks it:

- InfoPath sets the date field = now()

- InfoPath queries the GetUserProfileByName service (I'm not setting a query value here so GUPBN should be querying the current user, no?)

- InfoPath sets the People Picker's values to:

> AccountID = the AccountName returned by the Query

> Display Name = the PreferedName returned by the Query

> Account Type = "User" (without quotes... just a hardcoded string)

This works perfectly when entering a NEW record, but does not populate the People Picker when editing an existing record. Have any of you seen this before? Do you have any idea what might be failing?

Thanks.

Tom