Working with the PeopleEditor in ASP.NET

This article has code snippets used to work with People editor in ASP.NET and SharePoint;

Adding the control

Using Sharepoint TAG

<%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

<SharePoint:PeopleEditor runat="server" ID="peopleEditor"
AutoPostBack="true" AllowEmpty="false" SelectionSet="User,SecGroup,SPGroup"
BorderWidth="1" PlaceButtonsUnderEntityEditor="false" Rows="1" />

Using C#

PeopleEditor pplEditor = new PeopleEditor();

pplEditor.ValidatorEnabled = true;

Panel1.Controls.Add(pplEditor);

Getting values from control

for (int i = 0; i < pplEditor.ResolvedEntities.Count; i++)

{

PickerEntity picker = (PickerEntity)pplEditor.ResolvedEntities[i];

Hashtable hstEntityData = picker.EntityData;

string accountName = Convert.ToString(hstEntityData["AccountName"]);

string emailID = Convert.ToString(hstEntityData["Email"]);

}

Setting initial value

//Load peopleEditor values from Aprovadores

if (oItemAtivo["Aprovador_x0028_es_x0029_"] != null)

{

string users = string.Empty;

SPFieldUserValueCollection userCol = new SPFieldUserValueCollection(oWeb, oItemAtivo["Aprovador_x0028_es_x0029_"].ToString());

foreach (SPFieldUserValue usrItm in userCol)

{

users += usrItm.User.ToString() + ",";

}

peopApp.CommaSeparatedAccounts = users.Remove(users.LastIndexOf(","), 1);

}

Working with the PeopleEditor in ASP.NET