Default Person Group Picker

Having a problem with Person Group Picker. I add a PGP control to the form and then drag it’s DisplayName and AccountID there also to view/reference.
If I manually enter a name, say John Doe, into the control and check it, the DisplayName shows “John Doe” and the AccountID shows “i:0#.f|membership|[email protected]” like I’d expect.
However what I really want to do is default the control to the current users name. I’ve found posts that explain to set the default value for both DisplayName and AccountID to UserName(). That works,
except that the DisplayName remains set to “i:0#.f|membership|[email protected]”. Does not seem to update it even when form is submitted or saved.
I tried leaving the DisplayName default unset. But then DisplayName just remains blank.
Is there a way to trigger and update of this field?
Background: I’m using InfoPath 2013 published to a SharePoint/Office 365 site.
Jim Brown

Hi Jim,
I understand that the error occured when you opened the form in browser.
Error 5566 with InfoPath can be a result of different cases, you can take a look at the thread below for troubleshooting:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/244f67f1-bf52-412b-b9a2-c2357a645bb9/issue-with-infopath-error-5566?forum=sharepointcustomizationprevious
Did the web application use claim based authentication?
If yes, please follow the steps in the links below to auto populate User Information in InfoPath with Claims Based Authentication in SharePoint:
http://spvee.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/auto-populate-user-information-in-infopath-with-claims-based-authentication-part-1-of-3/
http://spvee.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/auto-populate-user-information-in-infopath-with-claims-based-authentication-part-2-of-3/
http://spvee.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/auto-populate-user-information-in-infopath-with-claims-based-authentication-part-3-of-3/
Here is a similar thread for you to take a look:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/74a23382-3e47-470d-ba6d-f848aaf78220/infopath-browser-form-fails-and-gives-5566-error?forum=sharepointgeneral
Best regards.
Thanks
Victoria Xia
TechNet Community Support

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