SharePoint & InfoPath get values of a multi choice field

In one of my projects i had a form in which i am fetching data from a second list. In this second list there is a people field in which user can insert one or more people. And exactly these values should be displayed in my form. I tried a computed field, a textfield, a people field, but it only displayed the first value cause i choosed the displayname of the people field. If i select the people group it displayed everything (displayname, Userid and type).

So i googled and found this script and put it into my textfield:

[sourcecode language=”csharp”]

eval(eval(DisplayName[ID = LookupFieldInMyForm]; ‘concat(., “;”)’); “..”)

[/sourcecode]

What does it do?

Well, in short it put each value of the people field from the second list and after each value it adds “;”. That was exactly what i needed.

If you want to use it for a listview box and you only want to extract the selected items you have to modify this part:

DisplayName[ID = LookupFieldInMyForm]

This it is reading the values.

I hope it helps you.

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Consultant for Microsoft 365 Applications with a strong focus in Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business as well as PowerPlatform with PowerApps, Flow and PowerBI. I provide Workshops for Governance & Security in Office 365 and Development of Solutions in the area of Collaboration and Teamwork based on Microsoft 365 and Azure Cloud Solutions. In his free time he tries to collect tipps and worthy experience in this blog.

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