I wanted to display the people picker value in a list form as a hyperlink in SharePoint. By default, it was just a text field on the display form. In a normal SharePoint list form, this field can be modified to disable output escaping so that it formats as an html. I was totally unsure how to accomplish this, and pressed for time, I decided to write a script to format it as a hyperlink. If you know how to do this in InfoPath, please share!
Place this script in a content editor webpart on the display list form:
Place this script in a content editor webpart on the display list form:
<script type='text/javascript' src='/js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js'></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//make sure document is loaded first
$(document).ready(function() {
setTimeout(formatUserField,'1000');
});
function formatUserField()
{
$("span[ScriptClass='CustomControl']").each(function(){
var curValue = $(this).text();
var newhtml = "<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='PopUpEmail(\"" + curValue + "\");return false;'>"+ curValue +"</a>";
$(this).html(newhtml);
});
}
function PopUpEmail(username)
{
var p_recipient = username;
var p_cc = "";
var p_subject = "";
var p_body = "";
var objO = new ActiveXObject('Outlook.Application');
var objNS = objO.GetNameSpace('MAPI');
var mItm = objO.CreateItem(0);
mItm.Display();
mItm.To = p_recipient;
mItm.Cc = p_cc;
mItm.Subject = p_subject;
mItm.Body = p_body;
mItm.GetInspector.WindowState = 2;
}
</script>
