Using default people picker on custom form

Question

I have found some posts that have a little information on the topic but nothing that has an answer.

Is there a way to get the OOTB people picker to work on a custom form? The best that I have gotten right now is to render the correct control by replacing:

<SharePoint:FormField runat="server" id="ff3{$Pos}" ControlMode="Edit" /> - (Deleted some out to keep it clean)

with

<SharePoint:ClientPeoplePicker runat="server" id="ff3{$Pos}" />

Doing this will let me select a user but when I save the form the field is blank. Is there any other way around this to get this control to work?

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• Client people picker in custom form

• peoplepicker on custom forms via SPD in SP2013

Answer 1

Consider the JQuery web services library: http://spservices.codeplex.com/ for custom forms. This thing works on 2007, 2010 and 2013. It requires JQuery UI's CSS files though.

Answer 2

You don't say what type of custom form (xlst, csr, or something other) you develop and what type of field used. If a field type is user/group then sharepoint should generate default People Picker Control in you custom from by
<SharePoint:FormField runat="server" id="ff3{$Pos}" ControlMode="Edit" />

If you use text field and want use picker then try OOTB JS Client Side People Picker https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj713593.aspx. It is situable for all sharepoint forms