I'm using the SharePoint PeopleEditor to select a user and when the user is selected I want to populate a few fields with information about that user, I get the data from a Database. The problem is, how to make the PeopleEditor send a signal to my code that a value has been set?! There is no event on the PeopleEditor control fires when a value is set.
few minuites of googling lead me to msdn this article ,
When you set the property AutoPostBack to true, a Postback will be generated when a value is set in the control.
In the case of the PeopleEditor this means that when you type a username and click Check names (or hit enter) or use the Addressbook to select a user you will receive a generic postback, and the page is reloaded. There you can have a code in Page_Load that checks if a value has been selected and take some action like querying that database with the PeopleEditor user as a key and then filling other controls on the page.
few minuites of googling lead me to msdn this article ,
When you set the property AutoPostBack to true, a Postback will be generated when a value is set in the control.
string accountName = null;
if
(peUser.ResolvedEntities.Count > 0)
{
PickerEntity
entity = (PickerEntity)peUser.ResolvedEntities[0];
accountName = entity.Key;
int pos = accountName.IndexOf('\\');
accountName
= accountName.Substring(pos + 1);
// take some
action based on accountName
}