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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"
nfeng11
May 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.