Set a People Picker control to a designated person.

[JMUSharePoint]

I'm using an Issue list in SharePoint.  I want to set the "Assigned To" field to a specific person.  Can that be easily done?  I would like to open up the list in PowerApps and set the default value to "someone@company.com".  The only options I've found is to set it to the current user.  That won't resolve my issue.  

Thanks for your suggestions.

[v-xida-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @JMUSharePoint ,

Do you want to set the Default value of the "Assigned To" field to a specific person in your Org within the Edit form of your app?

Is the Issue list that you mentioned a Issue Tracking SP list?

I have made a test on my side, please take a try with the following workaround:

Set the DefaultSelectedItems property of the Combo Box control within the Assigned To Data card to following:

If(
    EditForm1.Mode=FormMode.New,
    {
      DisplayName: Office365Users.UserProfile("Test3@xxxxxx.xxmicrosoft.com").DisplayName,
      Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & Lower("Test3@xxxxxx.xxmicrosoft.com"), 
      Department: "", 
      Email: "Test3@xxxxxx.xxmicrosoft.com", 
      JobTitle: "", 
      Picture: ""
    },
    Parent.Default
)

On your side, you should type the following formula:

If(
    EditForm1.Mode=FormMode.New,
    {
      DisplayName: Office365Users.UserProfile("someone@company.com").DisplayName,
      Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & Lower("someone@company.com"), 
      Department: "", 
      Email: "someone@company.com", 
      JobTitle: "", 
      Picture: ""
    },
    Parent.Default
)

Note: I assume that the "someonoe@company.com" represents a specific person in your Org. You could not specify an external user (outside your Org) within this Assigned To field.

More details about setting a default value for a Person field within the Edit form, please check the following blog:

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/default-values-for-complex-sharepoint-types/

Also please check the response within the following thread:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Creating-Apps/Set-the-default-value-of-person-lookup-to-current-...

Best regards,

[JMUSharePoint]

I just now got back to this but it worked!  Thank you so much for your help.

Sandy