How to add the current user to a people picker using javascript coding in document library

Question

Hi Everyone,
This is my scenario,
I have a document library,for this if any user uploads a document,there we have three content types(Ex:content1,content2,content3)
if the uploaded user is from content 1(here we have four columns name,assigned to ,status,published to) after uploading the document the document has to be updated.so when the document is updated by the user then automatically the published filed people
picker has to be filled up with the current user name this is done by using java script object model programming.
i am stuck with this can anyone help me..............
thanks in advance
Ramu

Answer 1

Hi,
I understand that you want to set a people picker field value automatically to current user. You can use these ECMA scripts on your EditForm.aspx page. Edit the page in SharePoint designer and add the code before a </asp:Content> tag.
 <script type="text/javascript">
var context = null;
 var web = null;
 var currentUser = null;
ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(GetUserLoginName, "sp.js");
function GetUserLoginName() {
context = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();
 web = context.get_web();
 this._currentUser = web.get_currentUser();
 context.load(this._currentUser);
 context.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, this.onSuccessMethod),
Function.createDelegate(this, this.onFailureMethod));
 function onSuccessMethod(sender, args) {
 var today = new Date();
 alert('Name:' + this._currentUser.get_title() + '\n Login:' + this._currentUser.get_loginName()); document.getElementById('ctl00_m_g_9b4b3950_80d8_4e6e_b2fa_241b727d83d4_ctl00_ctl02_ctl00_ctl02_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_UserField_upLevelDiv').innerHTML=this._currentUser.get_title();//you
need to change the ID here to you people picker field ID. You can get the id for this field with the help of IE developer tool.
 function onFaiureMethod(sender, args) {
 alert('request failed' + args.get_message() + '\n' + args.get_stackTrace());
 </script>
For more information, please refer to this site:
Get current user’s LoginName Ecmascript Sharepoint 2010:
http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2011/05/18/get-current-users-loginname-ecmascript-sharepoint-2010/
Thanks,
Entan Ming
Entan Ming
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