How to get the Login Name of user from people picker control using jquery?

Question

I want to get the log-in name of user from people picker control using jquery.

I have a code which displays the display name of the user but I am not able to get the login name.

Code is as follows:

$(document).ready(function () {
$("input[title='Project Owner']").focusout(function () {    

    var loginName = $("span.ms-entity-resolved").attr("title");

    alert("Login Name:" + loginName);

    var displayName = $("span.ms-entity-resolved div:first-child").attr("displaytext");

    alert("Display Name :" +displayName);

});

});

Here Project Owner is name of the PeoplePicker control.

How do I get the login name?

Answer 1

I did some tricks and found the solution finally, I don't know it is the optimal solution but it works in my case.

The code is here:

$(document).ready(function () {
$("input[title='Project Owner']").focusout(function () {    

    var loginName = $("span.ms-entity-resolved").attr("ID");

    var start = loginName.indexOf(":");

    var end = loginName.indexOf("_Processed");

    var finalUserName = loginName.substring(start-1, end);

    alert(finalUserName);
});


});

Answer 2

Actually it is alot easier - You can access a normal peoplepicker in SP2013 the same way you would access a clientside one.

The Problem is, that you need to know the ID to identify the peoplepicker. Alternatively you can iterate over the global Object containing the PeoplePicker's.

If you check out the SPClientPeoplePicker.SPClientPeoplePickerDict object in your debugging console, there are all peoplepicker of this page stored in it (iterate here to get all peoplepicker).

You can access the entered user's information like this:

SPClientPeoplePicker.SPClientPeoplePickerDict[yourPickersID].GetAllUserInfo()

Now every object has stored the properties of an user that was entered in the picker.

Here's an example for a group

Answer 3

var ctx = new SP.ClientContext();
var user = ctx.get_web().get_currentUser();
ctx.load(user);
ctx.executeQueryAsync(function() {
    alert(user);
});​

above is using sharepoint javascript object model sp.js, you cant do it the way your doing it in your example!

Getting the username from javascript client object model?

also look here:

Get current user in Client Object Model with javascript?

EDIT

sorry i missunderstood your question!

$(document).ready(function() 
{ 
     $("input[title='JM ID']").focus(function()   
     { 
          var User = $("textarea[title='People Picker']").val(); 
          alert(User);
     }); 
}); 

that should get the user name from people picker!

http://ronsp.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/get-value-from-people-picker-using-jquery/

EDIT

strange should of worked! have you tried the full code?

$(document).ready(function() 
{ 
   $("input[title='JM ID']").focus(function()   
   { 
      var User = $("textarea[title='People Picker']").val().split("\\"); 
      alert(User);
   }); 
}); 

or

$(document).ready(function() 
{ 
   $("input[title='JM ID']").focus(function()   
   { 
      var User = $("textarea[title='People Picker']").val().split("\\"); 
      alert(User[0]);
      alert(User[1]);
   }); 
});

Answer 4

You can get login name using key property,

PickerEntity objEntity = (PickerEntity)peUser.ResolvedEntities; loginName = objEntity.Key;

and Display name using DisplayText property,

displayName = objEntity.DisplayText;