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Can anyone help me to get the user info from a person column using javascript? So far I have been able to read the list item and return a SP.FieldUserValue from which I can get a numeric Id (not sure what this ID is) and the display name. e.g.

var ManVal  = oListItem.get_item("RecruitingManager").get_lookupValue();
var ManId   = oListItem.get_item("RecruitingManager").get_lookupId();

How do I take this one step further to create a sp user object?

Ultimately what I'm trying to achieve is to retrieve the details from the list and then populate a people editor.

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The person field (actually called "people picker") has a specific JavaScript function which you might find useful: GetAllUserInfo()

There is a nice article on MSDN: How to: Use the client-side People Picker control in apps for SharePoint

The relevant code is:

// Get the people picker object from the page.
var peoplePicker = this.SPClientPeoplePicker.SPClientPeoplePickerDict.peoplePickerDiv_TopSpan;

// Get information about all users.
var users = peoplePicker.GetAllUserInfo();
var userInfo = '';
for (var i = 0; i < users.length; i++) {
    var user = users[i];
    for (var userProperty in user) { 
        userInfo += userProperty + ':  ' + user[userProperty] + '<br>';
    }
}
$('#resolvedUsers').html(userInfo);

// Get user keys.
var keys = peoplePicker.GetAllUserKeys();
$('#userKeys').html(keys);

So basically you have to cast your field to a SPClientPeoplePicker and can then use GetAllUserInfo to iterate over all users in the field.

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Thanks but I think you have misunderstood. I'm retrieving the person value from a list item, not people picker. I've read the article you have listed. – Phillip Hill 11 hours ago
I did misunderstand, but your code especially get_lookupValue() should work: stackoverflow.com/questions/8892999/… – moontear 7 hours ago
Where I'm getting confused is, that look up value returns SP.FieldUserValue - $1A_1: 11 $2Z_1: "Phillip Hill" proto: Object How do I get a user object from this so I can for instance get the email address of that user? I can then use that to set the people picker. All I'm trying to do is get a user from a person column in a list ad populate the people picker with this person. I'm obviously missing something obvious. – Phillip Hill 4 hours ago

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