Overview

Previously we have already discussed the possible ways for customization of  People Editor,in particular it was demonstrated  how to add  initialization and validation capabilities on the client side. This time we are going to concentrate on some aspects  of extensibility for  People Editor control that are available on the client side.

The entry point for extending of the People Editor control on the client side  is AfterCallbackClientScript property. It allows to specify the callback JavaScript function to be executed after People Entity value is resolved and  control is initialized.

The different approach is to override Entity Editor callback function itself, for example the code below demonstrates how to execute method before control is initialized

The following example demonstrates the usage of the second approach.

Customize People Editor in Alerts subscription page to enable sending of  alerts assigned to SharePoint Group

Sending alerts assigned to SharePoint Group is not supported by default in SharePoint 2010. The main idea of this solution is to enable the selection of SharePoint Groups in people editor on subscription pages and the sending alerts to individual users from these groups

How it works

In Alert subscription page (New or Edit forms) type or select in People picker dialog box the SharePoint Group name

After clicking “Check names” button or OK button in People picker the SharePoint group will be  expanded  to individual users in the text box as shown below

Implementation

So, the solution consist of the following tasks:

• activate SharePoint Groups  for selection in people editor control
• expand a group entity to individual user entities in the text box

Enable SharePoint Group for People Editor via Delegate Control

As was noted earlier SharePoint Groups are not allowed for selection set  on people editor control in Alerts subscription pages

In order to activate  the selection of SharePoint Group in Alerts subscription pages the following control is intended (code behind):

Control with  reference to  JavaScript  library –  expand a group entity to individual user entities for picker editor control

Manifest file for registration of SendAlertsManager control via Delegate Control

Expand SharePoint Group entity to individual Users entities (entityeditorutils.js)

Expand SharePoint Groups to individual User entities for People Editor