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BarryCoombs
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Nov 24, 2020

Automatically adding author in a List field

Hi All,   I am having lots of fun playing with Lists at the moment. I would like to add a field to my lists that is automatically populated with the person who added the entry.    This is the sam...
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ganeshsanap
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Mar 03, 2023

BarryCoombs skmonjurali MattBrink Every SharePoint or Microsoft Lists list has a field - Created By (internal name - Author).

 

This field stores the name of user who created item in the SharePoint list. You can rename this column from List settings > Columns section.

 

If you want to create another similar person or group column and populate it based on currently logged in user, you have to customize the list form using Power Apps. Then you can achieve it easily using Power Apps formula.

 

Check: 

  1. https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/Populate-People-Picker-with-Current-User/td-p/429604 
  2. https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/How-to-Default-a-People-Picker-to-current-user-amp-save-to/td-p/20495 

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