Tag / People Picker



Querying SharePoint Profile Data from an InfoPath Form

Date: 02 Feb 2010 | 8 Comments | Tags: ,,, | InfoPath,MOSS,Programming | 
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Problem Day after day I have users asking me how to get additional information about the selected user from the contact selector/people picker per my example at http://sharepointassist.com/2009/02/27/adding-a-contact-selectorpeople-picker-to-an-infopath-form/. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do this, the only way to do this is to wire in a simple web service query that pulls the necessary information when a user chooses a name in the people picker. Upon selection, the web service call is made, returning data to the GetUserProfileByName data connection, the resulting data in the GetUserProfileByName...



Adding a Contact Selector/People Picker to an InfoPath Form

Date: 27 Feb 2009 | 57 Comments | Tags: ,,,, | InfoPath,MOSS,SharePoint | 
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Problem You want to use the People Picker functionality in InfoPath that SharePoint supports natively. *** Look for the common mistakes section at the bottom of this article *** *** To query additional information about the selected user see this article: http://www.sharepointassist.com/2010/02/02/querying-sharepoint-profile-data-from-an-infopath-form/ *** Solution Follow the steps very carefully below. It takes a lot of steps to get the contact selector working in InfoPath but once you get it working you shouldn’t have any problems doing it again. Note that the example below assumes...