Unable to return value of Person or Group field from JSLink

Question

I have a custom list in which I have applied JSLink on Person/Group field in NewForm.aspx, my code works fine to render the field but when I click on submit button, I am returning value. <userId>;#<LoginName> to SharePoint in statement like below:

formCtx = SPClientTemplates.Utility.GetFormContextForCurrentField(ctx);
formCtx.registerGetValueCallback(formCtx.fieldName, function () {
return "1;#xxx yyy;";
});

But I am not getting any value stored after the item is saved.

How do I return the value to Person field?

Note : The field is single allow value.

Answer 1

After searching for the issue for hours I found a solution which returns the data to SharePoint for Person or Group field.

Thanks to author of this post. From this post , I got the idea.

However in my case the only string to return to SharePoint is [{"Key":"i:<id>#.w|domain\\\\<UserLoginName>"}].

So, finally my piece of code to submit data from JSLink is:

formCtx = SPClientTemplates.Utility.GetFormContextForCurrentField(ctx);
formCtx.registerGetValueCallback(formCtx.fieldName, function () {
// return '[{"Key":"i:0#.w|bitscape\\\\riyaz.kalva","EntityType":"User","IsResolved":true}]';
return '[{"Key":"i:0#.w|domain\\\\xxx.yyy"}]';
});

Thanks,

Hope this helps others too.!!!