Solved: People Picker filter not working in a sudden - Page 3

evanzhang · ‎08-22-2018

Hello Team,

Please repro the issue with the following steps:

a. From any SharePoint online list, create a users&Groups column.

b. Go with customize forms in PowerApps.

c. Edit anything and Save.

d. Press F5 and you'll find people picker is not loading anydata with autofill.

e. Pulish the change to SharePoint, the same issue is happening with SharePoint forms (PowerApps) when you create an item or edit existing items.

f. This is reproduced with multiple SharePoint Online sites on my end.

This was working perfectly yesterday.

maverick17 · ‎08-30-2018

great new @dinusc! A few days is better then a couple of weeks. Good to know when a critcal issue is introduced that it will be addressed quickly.

rebeccas · ‎08-31-2018

I am having same problem. An App that I already has works perfect...all I did was Save As and put as a different name and then the people field will not populate. On both View and Edit forms!

rebeccas · ‎08-31-2018

Mine just starting today...it seems to be going in waves like the updates do. I took an app that worked fine and just saved it as a different name and now my combo box people picker doesn't work!..ugh

mabolan · ‎08-31-2018

To track the status of the error you can go to our support page: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/support/

We'll be updating it as the fix begins to roll out. We will also respond to this thread once the issue is resolved.

Also if you're using SharePoint, a temporary fix is to set the user column to people and groups.

tahoon · ‎08-31-2018

The fix has been deployed. If you have already published an app with the bug, you will have to open the app in PowerApps Studio and re-publish to get the fix. We apologize for the inconvenience and are reviewing how we can prevent similar incidents from happening in future.

Please let me know if you still are having problems with this issue.

GustavC · ‎10-07-2019

In the app I had this issue with last week I was modifying and it had 2 forms. One basic for registration of new items (1 person/group field) and one more extensive for editing all details in the list item. The more extensive have same person/group field as in the basic form, and then an additional person group field that was working fine.

The person/group field that gave me trouble last week is present in both forms, and it were not searching both places. I suspected that having the same person/group field present in 2 separate forms, in the same app, was an issue.

I did some google searches that brought me here.
I did not see an abius way to change the person field control from a combox to something else. This is something I really want to do, because I do not like the drop down combox feature for person fields. But I did not find a way to change the control, so I never tested that. I also changed the combox properties that was E-mail to Display name, and that might have worked but it listed full name 2 times when searching..

I have experienced this issue in the past, and I always assumed I have done something wrong. My old fix was to remove the person/group field and add it again. So when I did this as the last change on the app before I saved, tested and published. And they still working today.