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I have a newrequest.aspx page in a Sharepoint 2013 App with a form on it to get details from my users to submit a leave request,this is then submitted to a Sharepoint list to hold all of the requests for a workflow. On this form I have created a peoplepicker using the following code:

<script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function () { $("#manager").spPeoplePicker(); }); </script> 

Then in my .js file I have the following code to retrieve the values from that peoplepicker :

 var managerTitle = $("#manager_TopSpan_ResolvedList").find("span.ms-entity-resolved").attr("title"); 

Then I have the following code in the same .js file to submit these values to my list using javascript/ecmascript.(Note, I am only copying relevant code here, This all is part of a leave request app that I am busy with,so there is more fields in use but they all work fine)

Code:

var oList = context.get_web().get_lists().getByTitle("Leave Requests"); var itemCreateInfo = new SP.ListItemCreationInformation(); this.oListItem = oList.addItem(itemCreateInfo); oListItem.set_item("Manager", managerTitle); oListItem.update(); context.load(oListItem); context.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, this.onQuerySucceeded), Function.createDelegate(this, this.onQueryFailed)); 

The manager field chosen above is also a peoplepicker. I am looking for assistance to set that value. The code above gives an error by saying

Invalid data was used to update the field or the field may be read-only

I have googled and tried a lot of different recommendations to no avail. Any assistance will be appreciated.

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    Use oListItem.set_item("Manager", SP.FieldUserValue.fromUser(managerTitle)); to set the person type field.

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    • This is the exact answer that I was looking for! Thank you Sir! So simple. Just one thing, Remove the quotes around managerTitle.CommentedOct 1, 2015 at 12:03

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