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nfeng11
May 26, 2025Copper Contributor
Person column value changes after saving
We have a List in our SharePoint with columns for selecting people within our company. A weird thing we found is that, if we select a guy named Anmol, and once we save it, a different name ends up b...
virendrak
May 27, 2025Iron Contributor
Please check the properties of that column. I suspect that it may have a setting configured as 'Choose from' > allowing selection only from a specific SharePoint Group
- If the column type is Person or Group, SharePoint allows limiting choices to a particular SharePoint Group.
- You can check this by navigating to List Settings > Edit Column > Column Properties > Choose from
- If it's restricted, only members of the specified group, you may have to modify choose from "all users"
- nfeng11May 28, 2025Copper Contributor
Hi virendrak,
Thanks for looking into this. The setting of the column is below. I believe it's already set like what you recommend.