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Person column value changes after saving
We have a List in our SharePoint with columns for selecting people within our company. A weird thing we found is that, if we select a guy named Anmol, and once we save it, a different name ends up being selected. See gif below.
Anmol and Amitjot are different people with the same last name (which I thought I should blur out). I can't find Amitjot in our Azure AD, not even in the deleted user list.
This only happens to this Anmol guy as far as we know.
I created a new List with a person column to test, which did not have this problem.
We mainly use a Power Apps form to populate this List, which also has this problem.
Normally, whenever I select a person, it will save to the List, but in the gif when I selected Anmol, it did not save, so I changed the description slightly to trigger the save.
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Just want to add that I have tried reindexing the list, and it did not help😟.
Please check the properties of that column. I suspect that it may have a setting configured as 'Choose from' > allowing selection only from a specific SharePoint Group
- If the column type is Person or Group, SharePoint allows limiting choices to a particular SharePoint Group.
- You can check this by navigating to List Settings > Edit Column > Column Properties > Choose from
- If it's restricted, only members of the specified group, you may have to modify choose from "all users"
Hi virendrak,
Thanks for looking into this. The setting of the column is below. I believe it's already set like what you recommend.
