Default Sharepoint 2013 client-side people picker to current user

Question

I'd like to be able to default the client side people picker for SharePoint 2013 to the current (or any) user.

I've read the "How to" MSDN document here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj713593.aspx

But I can't find any documentation on the clientpeoplepicker.js file and it's functions. It's tricky trying to decipher what the events that fire javascript are actually doing.

Thanks, Ian.

Answer 1

This works, but I need to be able to construct the user object from the currently logged on user. Shouldn't be too difficult I hope !

var users = new Array(1);
var user = new Object();
user.AutoFillDisplayText = "Ian Chivers";
user.AutoFillKey = "i:0#.f|membership|ian@kwsservices.onmicrosoft.com";
user.AutoFillSubDisplayText = "";
user.AutoFillTitleText = "ian@kwsservices.onmicrosoft.com\nTenant\nian@kwsservices.onmicrosoft.com";
user.Description = "ian@kwsservices.onmicrosoft.com";
user.DisplayText = "Ian Chivers";
user.DomainText = "kwsservices-7c59c4bf8d655a.sharepoint.com";
user.EntityType = "User";
user.IsResolved = true;
user.Key = "i:0#.f|membership|ian@kwsservices.onmicrosoft.com";
user.LocalSearchTerm = "Ian";
user.ProviderDisplayName = "Tenant";
user.ProviderName = "Tenant";
user.Resolved = true;
users[0] = user;
this.SPClientPeoplePicker_InitStandaloneControlWrapper(peoplePickerElementId, users, schema);