People Picker Control for Infopath 2007

Ever wanted to have a people picker kind of control in Infopath form and that too in browser mode. Did i heard yes :) , well there is a Active-X control which takes care of this part named "Contact Selector Control".Just follow the steps to get it working :

Add Contact Selector to Controls Pane

Click the "Add or Remove Controls " from the Control Task pane as shown in figure























Click ADD

Select Active-X

This will display a list of controls , select "Contact Selector" ,click Next

Select "Don't include a .cab file"

From drop down select "Field or Group(any data type) and click finish

DataSource for the Contact Selector control

Add non Repeating group named "group1"

Add a repeating Group names "Person"

Add following test field to the "Perosn " group (DisplayName,AccountId,AccountType)












Add Secondary datasource XMl file with details about the SharePoint Server , this is required by the form in order to validate the user against a particular sharepoint server .

Open Notepad and add the following Tag



Save the file as Context.xml

Add new connection as "Receive Type" and source of data as "XML"

Option “Include the data as a resource file” shoule be enabled























Drag control to the form and you are all set .Best of Luck !!!!
Posted by Raghu Iyer at 9:55 AM
Labels: Infopath 2007


REF: http://metahat.blogspot.com/2007/05/people-picker-control-for-infopath-2007.html

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See Also: http://www.sharepointassist.com/2009/02/27/adding-a-contact-selectorpeople-picker-to-an-infopath-form/