Nintex forms for Office 365 - Populate People Picker

[#1]

Hi everyone

I've seen many versions of this question asked but none that directly relates to the Nintex forms for Office 365 app.

I have a simple form with a People Picker on it.

I have written code which onload gets the current user and current user manager. I need to populate a Nintex people picker with the result from the Rest call.

My code so far. Any idea how I can do this?

    NWF.FormFiller.Events.RegisterAfterReady(function (){

     //No need to worry about this part, I've got this covered. GetManager is returning a manager object

     var managerUserId = GetManager();

     //Get reference to Manager People Picker

     var mgrCtrl = document.getElementById(ManagerPickerControlId);

     //Now what?

    });

[#2]

Hi Wicus van den Berg‌

you can try the following approach assuming your GetManager() function returns an object that looks like the one below.

NWF.FormFiller.Events.RegisterAfterReady(function (){   
var managerUserId = {
  "email": "manger@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com",
  "id": "9",
  "label": Manager
  "title": "",
  "type": "User",
  "value": "i:0#.f|membership|manger@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com"
};
  //Get reference to Manager People Picker   
  var mgrCtrl = NWF$('#'+ ManagerPickerControlId);
  mgrCtrl.data('uiItempicker')._addItem(managerUserId);
});

NB: please not this approach is not a permanent solution and there is no guarantee it will work in the future.

[thunderstorm654]

Hi Cellou, thanks for this solution.

Do you/does anyone know how to remove items from or preferably 'empty' a people picker? I'm populating based on a drop down selection, so at the moment I'm just adding more entries to the people picker, rather than replacing the existing entry with the new one.

I tried setting it to an empty string which didn't work, then I had a guess at a removeItem method, this seems to be on the right lines, but then you need to know the details of the item you're removing I think.. complicated...! Is there any other way?

[#4]

Hi Stefanie,

Do you have any solution for this one ? I tried using _removeitem, however getting error. Let me know please. Thanks,

[#5]

Did you test the above solution. This does not work. Grrrrr

[#6]

It really worked. Thanks..... Below is the code where i am looking people manager from a list.

NWF.FormFiller.Events.RegisterAfterReady(function (){

alert('In Ready....');

var ObjRequesterID = NWF$("#" + SalesRepClientID);

var objManagerID = NWF$("#" + RegManagerClientID);

ObjRequesterID.change(function(){

getManager(ObjRequesterID,objManagerID);

});

})

function getManager(ObjReqID,ObjMngrID)

{

//******* This function gets the Manager from List 'Participant Configurations'********

var ManagerAccount;

alert('In getManager fucntion');

var clientContext= SP.ClientContext.get_current();

var web = clientContext.get_web();

var list = clientContext.get_web().get_lists().getByTitle("Participant Configurations");

if(ObjReqID.val()!="")

  {

var trequester=ObjReqID.val().split('|')[2];

alert(trequester.split(';')[0]);

var requesterEmail=trequester.split(';')[0];

var userRequesterInfo = web.ensureUser(requesterEmail);

clientContext.load(userRequesterInfo);

clientContext.executeQueryAsync(      

function (sender, args) {

var camlQuery = new SP.CamlQuery();

alert(userRequesterInfo.get_title());

camlQuery.set_viewXml("<View><Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='Person' /><Value Type='User'>"+userRequesterInfo.get_title()+"</Value></Eq></Where></Query></View>");

var items = list.getItems(camlQuery);

clientContext.load(items);

clientContext.executeQueryAsync(      

function (sender, args) {

var itemEnumerator = items.getEnumerator();

while(itemEnumerator.moveNext())

{

var item = itemEnumerator.get_current();

var userManagerInfo = web.ensureUser(item.get_item("Manager").get_email());

clientContext.load(userManagerInfo);

clientContext.executeQueryAsync(      

function (sender, args) {

var managerUserId = {"email": userManagerInfo.get_email(),"id": "9","label": userManagerInfo.get_title(),"title": "","type": "User","value": userManagerInfo.get_loginName()

};

ObjMngrID.data('uiItempicker')._addItem(managerUserId);

});  

}

});

});

}

else

{

//Add code to remove item

}

}