Using People Picker control in edit web part Properties

How to use People Picker control in edit web part Properties?

First Create a "Empty SharePoint Project". Add New "Web Part" named "TestWebpart". Create a new webpart property in this, as shown below.

private string _ImpersonateUser = null;

[Personalizable(PersonalizationScope.Shared)]
[WebBrowsable(false)]
[System.ComponentModel.Category("Custom Properties")]
[WebDisplayName("Impersonate User")]
[WebDescription("User for impersonation")]
        public string ImpersonateUser
        {
            get
            {
                return _ImpersonateUser;
            }
            set
            {
                _ImpersonateUser = value;
            }
        }

Leave this as it is, we will come back to this again.


Add new class named "PeoplePickerEditor.cs" to this project. Your class should look like:

namespace SP.Anmol.Customization
{
    public class PeoplePickerEditor: EditorPart
    {
        private PeopleEditor _peoplePicker;
        public PeoplePickerEditor(string webPartID)
        {
            this.ID = "PeoplePickerEditor" + webPartID;
            this.Title = "Impersonate User";
        }

        protected override void CreateChildControls()
        {
            _peoplePicker = new PeopleEditor();
            _peoplePicker.ID = "pe1";
            _peoplePicker.AllowTypeIn = true;
            _peoplePicker.AllowEmpty = false;
            _peoplePicker.MultiSelect = false;
            _peoplePicker.Width = Unit.Pixel(250);
            _peoplePicker.SelectionSet = PeopleEditor.AccountType.User.ToString();
            Controls.Add(_peoplePicker);
        }

        public override bool ApplyChanges()
        {
            EnsureChildControls();
            TestWebpart.TestWebpart webPart = WebPartToEdit as TestWebpart.TestWebpart;
            if (webPart != null)
            {
                //set value of web part property
                webPart.ImpersonateUser = _peoplePicker.CommaSeparatedAccounts;
            }
            return true;
        }

        public override void SyncChanges()
        {
            EnsureChildControls();
            TestWebpart.TestWebpart webPart = WebPartToEdit as TestWebpart.TestWebpart;
            if (webPart != null)
            {
                //set value back to people picker control
                _peoplePicker.CommaSeparatedAccounts = webPart.ImpersonateUser;
            }
        }

    }
}

Now get back to web part code file. Implement the interface IWebEditable. Your web part code looks like:

namespace SP.Anmol.TestWebpart
{

    [Guid("84B6AF3B-9BA4-440A-AA4A-9657A5D67798")]
    public class TestWebpart : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart, IWebEditable
    {
        public AnonymousUpload()
        {
            this.ExportMode = WebPartExportMode.All;
        }
      
        private string _ImpersonateUser = null;
      
        [Personalizable(PersonalizationScope.Shared)]
        [WebBrowsable(false)]
        [System.ComponentModel.Category("Custom Properties")]
        [WebDisplayName("Impersonate User")]
        [WebDescription("User for impersonation")]
        public string ImpersonateUser
        {
            get
            {
                return _ImpersonateUser;
            }
            set
            {
                _ImpersonateUser = value;
            }
        }
      
        protected override void CreateChildControls()
        {
                 //Place your logic here
        }

 
        //Methods to be implement for interface IWebEditable        EditorPartCollection IWebEditable.CreateEditorParts()
        {
            List<EditorPart> editors = new List<EditorPart>();
            editors.Add(new PeoplePickerEditor(this.ID));
            return new EditorPartCollection(editors); 
        }

        object IWebEditable.WebBrowsableObject
        {
            get { return this; }
        }

    }
}