Sharepoint set user or group to SPListItem
16/04/2010 Leave a comment
We are going to use a sharepoint web control to get user or groups named “PeopleEditor” .For using these please fallow the instructions below.
Add fallowing code to top of your page:
<%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePointWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
Add fallowing control to your page front for get users or groups:
Note: If you want to set or retrieve the account types that are associated with the control use attribute “SelectionSet”
and enums are:
- User = single user
- DL = AD distribution list
- SecGroup = AD security group
- SPGroup = Sharepoint group
<SharePointWebControls:PeopleEditor runat=”server” ID=”txtScope” MultiSelect=”false” MaximumEntities=”1″ ValidatorEnabled=”true” SelectionSet=”User” Width=”300px”></SharePointWebControls:PeopleEditor>
Add fallowing to your page behind:
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls;
public SPFieldUserValueCollection GetSelectedUsers(PeopleEditor editor)
{
string selectedUsers = editor.CommaSeparatedAccounts;
// commaseparatedaccounts returns entries that are comma separated. we want to split those up
char[] splitter = { ',' };
string[] splitPPData = selectedUsers.Split(splitter);
// this collection will store the user values from the people editor which we'll eventually use
// to populate the field in the list
SPFieldUserValueCollection values = new SPFieldUserValueCollection();
// for each item in our array, create a new sp user object given the loginname and add to our collection
for (int i = 0; i < splitPPData.Length; i++)
{
string loginName = splitPPData[i];
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(loginName))
{
SPUser user = SPContext.Current.Web.SiteUsers[loginName];
SPFieldUserValue fuv = new SPFieldUserValue(SPContext.Current.Web, user.ID, user.LoginName);
values.Add(fuv);
}
}
return values;
}
}
And now i describe add to listitem and update:
SPList list = SPContext.Current.Web.Lists[APPLIB];
SPListItem item = list.Items.Add();
item["ProgramAdmin"] = GetSelectedUsers(txtScope);
item.Update();
That’s all.
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