The PeopleEditor is an ASP.NET control provided by Microsoft SharePoint for the purposes of selecting users or groups in the SharePoint framework.

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hotfix for problem with SharePoint PeopleEditor in IE-9

is there a hotfix for problem with PeopleEditor in IE-9? http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/pl-PL/sharepoint2010general/thread/90b3835c-6754-4bb6-9fd4-b74f16f236ff Exception Details: ...
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How to Modify / Create Custom People Editor Dialog ?

I want to Modify the Default People picker properties as Shown below. I want to hide the Highlighted Columns in the below image. Does anybody know how can I do this using C#? I can modify it or do I ...
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Adding a user or group to a SharePoint group

I have a custom PeoplePicker which has SelectionSet = "User,SecGroup". I want to add all entities within this PeoplePicker (which can be a SharePoint user, AD group/user) into a proper SPGroup. How ...
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How to get full login name from people picker using object model?

Using the object model, I've retrieved the value from a people picker using standard method, and it returns a string value like this: 1#Username I have a problem with this because I was ...
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ResolvePrincipal vs SearchPrincipal

So I'm attempting to write something to mimic sharepoint's people picker. I was originally using Utility.ResolvePrincipal with some success, but it was only returning me a single user (obviously). So, ...
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FBA and the People Picker

I have Windows and Forms Based Authentication enabled for my Web Application. All three web.configs (Central Admin, Security Token Service and Application) are correctly configured to use a custom ...
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Raw HTML content in editing controls using IE9

After updating the browser to IE9 (I used IE7 before), weird things happen when working on MOSS2007. When trying to edit content (a wiki entry for example), the textarea for editing shows raw HTML ...
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Peoplepicker returning with “No exact match was found” for a 1-way trust

Problem: When selecting an user in the peoplepicker, and posting the page to the server, an error is returned that the user cannot be found (No exact match was found). This happens when a task is to ...
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improve People Picker search on a claims-based-authentification server (forms-based; FBA)

Long story short: On a SharePoint 2010 Server solution, which is using forms-based-authentification only, I want that the people picker search dialog works like any other usable search. Rightnow it ...
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Powershell: Update People Picker Field with domain\Username

I'm trying to get this to work in powershell: $spListItem[$ppField] = "domain\username" $spListItem.Update() This gives me the following error: Exception calling "Update" with "0" argument(s): ...
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Permissions required to sync SP Calendar with Outlook

I would like to create a Calendar in SharePoint (I think is SP 2007) for my team where I can see the member workloads by specifying in the "People Selector" field the name of the person. The problem ...
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People Picker attempts to use claim based authentication but the web application authentication provider is classic / windows

We recently in-place upgraded our sharepoint 2007 to sharepoint 2010. We were using Windows authentication in the 2007 environment and wish to continue doing so in the 2010 environment. The ...
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How can I customise the image displayed in the claim picker?

I have got several custom claim providers which provide search and resolve functionality to the orgin sources of various incoming claims to our SharePoint 2010 farm. I was wondering if anyone knew ...
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People Picker:’ Select People and Groups’ finder doesn’t find users from site collection

Environments(test/production): Production: • MOSS 2007 Ent. SP2 (2008 r2 x64) • 1x App(2008 r2 x64) • 2x WFE(2008 r2 x64) • 1x SQL 2008 (2008 r2 x64) • Profile import will find users ...
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Display results sorted by name in SharePoint 2007 people picker?

When searching through the people picker, results are sorted by their account name and not by their display name. Is there any way to change this behavior?
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Getting Sid from PeoplePicker

I'm trying to get Sid values for picker entities.. PickerEntity does not have any Sid field.. I can check every PickerEntity find the type (i.e. user, group) then load SPUser etc to get the Sid. Is ...
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Display User Profile Picture next to Welcome Menu?

I want to display the user profile picture next to the Welcome Menu in the top right and I have it working after following Erik Swenson's blog but it doesn't seem to be working on My Sites. This is ...
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How do I get the username from a PeoplePicker control using jQuery?

I have a form where I used a People Picker control. I would like to get the username entered into a people picker control using jQuery. Please suggest?
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Create app page with user/group picker?

I need to create an app page with some multiline textboxes. In those textboxes, user should be able to type users, and put as many users or groups in the normal sharepoint way: domain\user1; ...
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What populates the People Picker / Address Book

I'm sure I already know this... that or it is really simple but what setting, connection or page decides who is shown in the People Picker / Address Book? Is it simply who is in your AD, determined ...
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People picker accepting anything when using ADFS as claim provider

I know the are other questions similar to this one, but I haven't found one that is the same. Here's the thing: I've successfully configured a web app in SharePoint to authenticate using ADFS. When I ...
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How do you create a multi-select people-picker field programatically in SP 2007?

I would like to create a people-picker user field where more than one user can be chosen. Currently, this is what I'm doing: SPField field = new SPField(contentType.Fields, "User", "Users"); ...
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how to get or set ItemPicker control value

I am building a custom form and I am using ItemPicker control to fetch data from an external entity . I am able to fetch the data using the ItemPicker but my next work is to fetch the value from this ...
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People Picker doesn't show disabled accounts, what should i do to make people picker show disabled accounts

people pickers in our intranet web application doesn't show user whose accounts are disabled in AD, but when i did people search for the user whose account is disabled i can see their profile. after ...
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Strange CSS when adding a user to the people picker

I have a problem happening on IE only when you put some name or add some name to the people picker. It will then validate and display users side by side. I think SharePoint injects the users using ...
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People Picker and FBA - partial functionality

So I've read a number of other questions on this topic and believe my situation is different. I have a web application with Forms Authentication. It is configured in the web.config files of central ...
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SharePoint group in Person/Group Picker

I want to send an email from a reusable workflow to everybody in a SharePoint group. I created a test group from the site permissions and created a reusable workflow. In this workflow I added a ...
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How to resolve full names from a Person or Group column (that contains multiple entries) in a designer workflow

I have a custom list with a custom content type, with a workflow, on SharePoint 2007 as outlined in this other StackExchange question. I'm using a Person or Group typed column to contain a list of ...
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FBA and People Picker Issue on NTLM Web App Zone

SCENARIO I correctly set up FBA on SharePoint 2010 following these tutorials (among others): ...
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SharePoint People Picker look-up for asp net membership provider not working

We are trying to replicate our 2007 setup of FBA in SharePoint 2010. Create a Web Application that is Windows login for internal users. Extend the Web Application that is for FBA login for external ...
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how to build a custom picker control

I wanted to build a picker control that would work upon a ECT like the out of the box picker but at the same time would also be able to show the picker dialogue based on some filtering criteria ...
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SharePoint 2010 People Picker Does Not Resolve USERS/GROUPS.Please Help!

I am Running SharePoint 2010 Site , recently we migrated Web App from Development Server to Production Server(Different Domain Controller). In Development Server I used to be able to Use People ...
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What happen to the Person/Group Picker field's content when Person/Group is deleted?

In a InfoPath 2007 form, the Person/Group Picker control is often used to select person or group from a SharePoint Site and validate those users against a directory provider. What happen to the form ...
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Troubleshooting People-Picker errors in multi-domain environment

I'm looking for help with troubleshooting people-picker in multi-domain environment with one-way trusts. We already executed the stsadm –o setapppassword -password pickapassword and stsadm -o ...
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Resolve people picker before presave

I have a function in presave that takes the user name in the people picker available on the form and do some business logic. After completion of script the actual save function is called. The issue ...
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How can I remove a single entry from a multiple People and Groups field via workflow?

Using a workflow (and anything else Middle Tier including scripting), can you remove a single name from a multiple-user Person or Groups field? I'm toying with the idea of a "subscription" model: ...
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Using Person field in Datasheet view with Claims/FBA

Is it possible to use a person field in datasheet view when the site is configured to use Claims/FBA? It's currently not working, when I click the field I get the usual dropdown but it has a check box ...
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How Can I Use the SharePoint People Picker Control in my Custom Web Part?

I need to add a people picker control to my custom web part. SharePoint has an OOB people picker control (which provides suggestions while typing into the control). Is there a way to use the OOB ...
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How strictly is Client Object Model functionality Security Trimmed & Person (User) object resolution?

I have a Silverlight Webpart Application running on a Sharepoint2010 Page. The purpose of this webpart is to take a spread of different sections of data and condense it into a more easily usable form. ...
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People picker not working in Chrome under taxonomy central admin

Here is a google chrome bug I logged with MS connect. https://connect.microsoft.com/site428/feedback/details/632134/people-picker-in-google-chrome-not-working-sometimes#details Make sure you expand ...
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People Picker and fltering by certain AD Groups

I have a scenario where a client wants to filter in the People Picker what AD Groups are available to choose from. For instance, when selecting what AD User/AD Group can be added to an Alert on a ...
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Create SP People Picker on the client-side

I would like to know if there is a way to generate a SharePoint 2010 People picker control just with JavaScript. Imagine that I am doing a Windows 8 App, I would like to create that control ...
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InfoPath 2010 Person/Group Picker: Need “write in” option

I've placed a person/group picker on a web enabled InfoPath 2010 form. It comes up and allows me to pick names from the farm no problem. My issue is that I want to be able to write in the name of an ...
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SharePoint 2010 People Picker Issues

I recently performed a database attach upgrade from a SharePoint 2003 system to SharePoint 2007, then up to SharePoint 2010. Everything is running well, for the most part. But one of our biggest ...
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What is the practical limit for the quantity of entities listed in a claim based peoplepicker?

What is the practical limit for the quantity of entities listed in a claim based peoplepicker in SharePoint 2010? Is there a limit? We are trying to get a list of 200,000+ plus users to work in the ...
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Displaying other people picker column properties on a view using spquery.js and spservices.js in MOSS 2007

We have a custom list with a person column. Want to display that persons Department on the list view. Possible with jquery/spservices? I have a jquery script that returns the currently logged in ...
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InfoPath PeoplePicker can i filter to show only People (user profiles only and no SharePoint Groups)

Does anyone know how I can filter Person/Group Picker (PeoplePicker) within InfoPath to return only user profiles from a SharePoint site and not the SharePoint groups? Using People Picker within a ...
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How to override Contact Selector?

I create my custom people editor in SP2010, it replace standart PE in SP and all works fine, but in Infopath 2010 forms it doesn't work. I read that there is another control, named Contact Selector. ...
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How to use People Picker and True Rich Text, cross browser

I have a list being deployed as part of a site definition. I need to have a custom web-part with controls that are able to fill in list data. SharePoint doesn't have an out of the box people-picker ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Configure People Picker columns (add/remove)

How it is possible to configure the Sharepoint 2010 People Picker? I want ot remove the column [Mobile Number] and add a column with the normal Phone Number. Thanks in advance!

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