Set or Get value people editor control in SharePoint with C#

Get People Editor Values


This code demostrate how to get people editor control values and insert a sharepoint list or document library.

SPWeb mySite = SPContext.Current.Web;

SPListItemCollection listItems = mySite.Lists["myList"].Items;

SPListItem item = listItems.Add();

item["Title"] = this.txtTitle.Text.ToString();

item["Location"] = this.lblLocations.Text.ToString();

item["EventDate"] = txtStart.SelectedDate ;

string[] UsersSeperated = pplEditor.CommaSeparatedAccounts.Split(',');

SPFieldUserValueCollection UserCollection = newSPFieldUserValueCollection();

foreach (string UserSeperated in UsersSeperated)

   {

    mySite.EnsureUser(UserSeperated);

    SPUser User = mySite.SiteUsers[UserSeperated];

    SPFieldUserValue UserName = new SPFieldUserValue(mySite, User.ID,                 User.LoginName);

    UserCollection.Add(UserName);

   }

item["people"] = UserCollection;

item.Update();

Set People Editor values from Sharepoint List or library

This code demostrate how to set people editor control values from  a sharepoint list

SPSite site = SPContext.Current.Site;

SPWeb myweb = site.OpenWeb();

SPList mylist = myweb.Lists["MyList"];

SPQuery query = new SPQuery();

query.Query = "<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='ID'/>" +

              "<Value Type='Text'>" + e.Value.ToString() + "</Value></Eq></Where>";

SPListItemCollection items = mylist.GetItems(query);

  foreach (SPListItem item in items)

    {

     try

      {

        this.txtTitle.Text = item["Title"].ToString();

        this.txtStart.SelectedDate =Convert.ToDateTime(item["EventDate"].ToString());

       }

        catch (Exception ex)

       {

         Response.Write(ex.Message.ToString());

       }

ArrayList _arrayList = new ArrayList();

SPFieldUserValueCollection users = item["People"] asSPFieldUserValueCollection;

  if (users != null)

     {

       foreach (SPFieldUserValue user in users)

         {

          PickerEntity _pickerEntity = new PickerEntity(); // PickerEntitiy use using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls

          _pickerEntity.Key = user.User.LoginName;

          _pickerEntity.IsResolved = true;

          _arrayList.Add(_pickerEntity);

          }

        pplEditor.UpdateEntities(_arrayList);

      }

}