I have built a custom people picker field with submit button in SharePoint webpart. The people picker field is rendering people from SharePoint.
Now, I want when I select a particular user in people picker field and click on submit button it should send the entry to my SharePoint list. I have built this field and also able to render people in suggestion but unable to post data into SharePoint list, here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Custom People Picker</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/_layouts/15/clienttemplates.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/_layouts/15/clientforms.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/_layouts/15/clientpeoplepicker.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/_layouts/15/autofill.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="people-picker-container">
<div class="input-container">
<label for="assign">Assign:</label>
</div>
</div>
<div id="assignField"></div>
<button id="submitBtn">Submit</button>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
initializePeoplePicker("assignField");
// Attach click event to the submit button
$('#submitBtn').on('click', function() {
ensureUserAndSaveToList('CreateBenefits');
});
});
function initializePeoplePicker(peoplePickerElementId) {
var schema = {};
schema['PrincipalAccountType'] = 'User,DL,SecGroup,SPGroup';
schema['SearchPrincipalSource'] = 15;
schema['ResolvePrincipalSource'] = 15;
schema['AllowMultipleValues'] = false;
schema['MaximumEntitySuggestions'] = 50;
schema['Width'] = '280px';
// Initialize the People Picker control
this.SPClientPeoplePicker_InitStandaloneControlWrapper(peoplePickerElementId, null, schema);
// Populate suggestions from SharePoint list column
populatePeoplePickerSuggestions(peoplePickerElementId);
}
function populatePeoplePickerSuggestions(peoplePickerElementId) {
// Fetch data from SharePoint list column "Assign" using REST API
$.ajax({
url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/getByTitle('CreateBenefits')/items?$select=Assign",
method: "GET",
headers: { "Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose" },
success: function(data) {
console.log("Data retrieved successfully:", data);
var suggestions = [];
// Extract user names from the retrieved data
data.d.results.forEach(function(item) {
suggestions.push(item.Assign);
});
// Populate the People Picker control with suggestions
var peoplePicker = SPClientPeoplePicker.SPClientPeoplePickerDict[peoplePickerElementId];
peoplePicker.AddUserKeys(suggestions.join(";"));
},
error: function(error) {
console.log("Error fetching data from SharePoint list: " + JSON.stringify(error));
}
});
}
function ensureUserAndSaveToList(listName) {
var peoplePickerTopDivId = $('#_UserName').children().children().attr('id');
var peoplePicker = this.SPClientPeoplePicker.SPClientPeoplePickerDict[peoplePickerTopDivId];
var users = peoplePicker.GetAllUserInfo();
var UserId = 0;
if (users.length > 0) {
var arryuser = users[0];
var payload = { 'logonName': arryuser.Key };
// Ensure the user exists
$.ajax({
url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/ensureuser",
type: "POST",
async: false,
contentType: "application/json;odata=verbose",
data: JSON.stringify(payload),
headers: {
"X-RequestDigest": $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val(),
"accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
},
success: function (data, status, xhr) {
UserId = data.d.Id;
},
error: function (xhr, status, error) {
console.log("Error ensuring user: " + JSON.stringify(error));
}
});
}
// Save data to SharePoint list
if (UserId !== 0) {
$.ajax({
url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/lists/getByTitle('" + listName + "')/items",
type: "POST",
async: false,
data: JSON.stringify({
__metadata: {
type: "SP.Data.PeopleListItem"
},
UserNameId: UserId
}),
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
"Content-Type": "application/json;odata=verbose",
"X-RequestDigest": $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val(),
"X-HTTP-Method": "POST",
},
success: function (data) {
console.log("User Name is saved successfully");
alert("User Name is saved successfully");
},
error: function (error) {
console.log("Error saving user name: " + JSON.stringify(error));
alert("Error saving user name: " + JSON.stringify(error));
}
});
} else {
console.log("No user selected");
alert("No user selected");
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
If Anyone know how to post data to SharePoint list please let me know.
JSON.stringify(error)? I am guessing this part in your code is wrong:__metadata: { type: "SP.Data.PeopleListItem" }. Hence I want to confirm error message you get from API call.