Get SPUser from Person or Group field

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:00:40 +0000

On any list, you can define a new column as a type of “Person or Group”. In event handlers or workflow, you may want to grab this value as use it as a real SPUser object, which will expose the name and email address, for example. Unfortunately if you just grab the value of the field, e.g.,

<br /> item["MyPersonField"]<br />

you’ll end up with a string that looks a bit like this:

15;#DOMAIN\Matt Thornton

Spuser on Matt Thornton

Get SPUser from Person or Group field