SP Designer Populate Current User in PeoplPickr NewForm only

Nagarajan Elumalai

Hi,

I have a scenario where i am using sharepoint designer. In my form i have a people picker field. In that field i should auto populate the current user name(current login). But this should be apply only in New form. If some other user login and clicks on that item to edit. It should display the already saved user name.

Please let me know how can we acheive it.

I tried to create Infopath form(Using function i populated user name) but user name is getting changed while editing the item. Do we have any other option please let me know.

Thanks

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Satyajit Paul8y ago
If I understand the requirement correctly - you're getting the current logged in user's name, but you do not want this to be changed (non-editable) in Edit Mode.

You can just make the control - read only, in either SharePoint Designer or Infopath.

Now, regarding the current logged in name -
Use [Me] as default value in SharePoint column, or
Using infopath, either use default function Username (as you did), or follow the instructions in this link below -
https://www.qdoscc.com/blog/how-automatically-retrieve-current-username-infopath-sharepoint-list-form
Nanddeep Nachan8y ago
In the field settings, set default value as [Me]
This will cover your scenaios of New and Edit form.