Set a People Picker’s Value on a Form

Following up on my recent post about getting the current value of a People Picker on a form, today I built the JavaScript to set the value, and here it is. As usual, I’ve left in my debugging code in case you want to see how it works.

// setPickerInputElement: Set a People Picker's value using its identifier to find it in the page
// Arguments:
//                            identifier:            The identifier for the instance of the fieldName (ff1, ff2, etc.)
//                            value:                    Set the fieldName to this value
//

function setPickerInputElement(identifier, value) {
  var tags = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');

  for (var i=0; i < tags.length; i++) {
    var tempString = tags[i].id;
    //alert('tags[' + i + '].id = ' + tempString);
    if ((tempString.indexOf(identifier) > 0) && (tempString.indexOf('UserField_upLevelDiv') > 0)){
      //alert('HIT for ' + identifier + ' id=' + tags[i].id + ' value=' + tags[i].value);
      tags[i].innerHTML = value;
      break;
    }
  }
}