Display user in people picker combo box

[sachinsoni441]

Hello experts, 

I have comma separated group of email id's which stored in set variable. my app also have people picker control which displays office 365 user. I want to set default selected user's in people picker, which all present in variable.

Example: Variable has below string.

rozer.s@abc.com, gerry.sal@abc.com, park.b@abc.com

I want to set these email id user as default selected users in people picker, how can i achieve this..

Please Help.

[eka24]

Use this on the combobox items:
["rozer.s@abc.com", "gerry.sal@abc.com", "park.b@abc.com"]

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[Anonymous]

@sachinsoni441 

Is your People Picker a ComboBox? If so, what is the Items property you are using?

Edit: Also, just to double check, you are looking to select multiples, yes?

[sachinsoni441]

Hello @Anonymous

I have use combo box people picker and set below formula to the item property.

Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm:ComboBox2.SearchText})

Which displays office 365 users and on button click i stored all selected users email in JSON file, I reload that JSON data on screen visible to per-populate in same people picker.

Note: JSON Stores email id in comma separated string.

Please advice!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@sachinsoni441 

Try setting the DefaultSelectedItems property of your combo box to 

Filter(Office365Users.SearchUser({top: 999}).Mail, Mail in Split(yourVariableName,", "))

Note: my Office365 User list is more than 999 records and I wasn't able to return any emails/names beyond that limit. The Max you can set Top to in a combobox is 999 so there's a limit there. If your User list is greater than 999 records then you may need to look at creating a collection of users or a data source (eg SharePoint List, SQL db, etc) which holds all the user details and use this as your reference?

Let me know how you get on

[sachinsoni441]

Hi @Anonymous 

I have use below formula in defaultSelectedItems property of combo box

Filter(Office365Users.SearchUser({top:999}).Mail, Mail in Split(MyEmails,", "))

MyEmails variable contain multiple email id's but still its not showing in combo box.

[Anonymous]

@sachinsoni441 

Using your Combo box, select the first two Emails that appear in the list, don't search for any emails. Put these two emails into MyEmails. Does this work?

[sachinsoni441]

@Anonymous 

I have use same process which you provided, but still not working.

Please let me know, if any other information required.

[Anonymous]

@v-yutliu-msft 

Do you have any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

@WarrenBelz  can you offer any suggestions here?

@v-yutliu-msft hasn't answered as yet.