In this blog Post we will learn, How to Set Combo Box Default to Current User and Save in SharePoint List Person column in the Canvas app form inside PowerApps and how SharePoint set default value for person or group column inside the SharePoint form

Person Column is In SharePoint Online is used to retrieve user or group value. This field can be set up to only retrieve users from a specific SharePoint group or to accept any value from the authentication provider. Users can be Found with either their name or email address.

Some times in PowerApps we need to set the default value of a combo pox that hold persons “users’ to the current user for a new record.

Set Combo Box Default to Current User and Save in SharePoint List Person column

The Data type of the person column in the combo pox must be Record data type, so we have to path a record that indicate the current user name and claims, you can use the below formula to set the DefaultSelecetedItems of the combo box to the current logged in user in PowerApps.

Claims: is an object that contains the information of a person

Set Combo Box Default to Current User and Save in SharePoint List Person column — **sharepoint set default value for person or group column** in PowerApps

{

DisplayName: User().FullName,

Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & Office365Users.MyProfile().UserPrincipalName

}

SharePoint set default value for person or group column

If you want to customize the SharePoint form and use current user as default value in a Person or Group field in SharePoint list

from the SharePoint list click Integration> PowerApps and select Customize forms to customize this SharePoint form in PowerApps studio.

In the Onvisible property of the form set the formula to get the current logged in user.

UpdateContext({    
    CurrentUser: {    
        '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",    
        Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & Lower(User().Email),    
        Department: "",    
        DisplayName: User().FullName,    
        Email: User().Email,    
        JobTitle: ".",    
        Picture: "."    
    }    
})