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 Sorry, I didn't find any time until now to complete the form. Your solution works perfectly now! Thank you so much Hilary. Really appreciate it.

 exactly. When I'm editing an existing item, the people picker is blank and I need to re-enter the name...

It works! Thank you so much for finding a solution, Hilary. There's only one new issue now: With the added rule, every time I'm editing an existing record the name field is emptied when the form is loading. I've changed the formulas ...

 Still can't get it to work unfortunately. I'll keep on trying and will post my feedback in case I've found a solution! As always, thanks a lot for the effort.

I still can't get it to work, tried to play around with the formulas a bit but there's still no result. Thanks a lot for the effort tho - really appreciate it. Until now I didn't know about the functionality to add rules to new sections, so it wasn't for nothing... I learned something new at least :-)

Thank you so much. The field I'm trying to set the default value (name) for is under "Name". "Buchungscode Airline" has the same functionality - I've already tried the preceding sibling formula on this field and it's working perfectly. The other issue I'm currently running into is to auto populate the date only ...

 [quote user="Hilary Stoupa"]  Oh, it should be possible. And your formula looks right. Does it not work in preview & in the browser? Drag the people picker group onto your form as a repeating table so you can check and see if the values are getting set.... Or if the person group even exists by default in a new ...