Pieople picker scope

[madrileanu]

Hello,

I have managed to successfully setup the widget in my SharePoint hosted app, but i have noticed that the people picker is only retrieving users from local user information list and not from the entire directory. Is there a way to configure the widget in order to retrieve all the users?

Thank you,
Andrei.

[purtuga]

Hi Andrei.  The widget uses the SearchPrincipals operation of the People service API.  I don't see an option there to change how the search is done.  
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/people.people.searchprincipals(v=office.12).aspx

Paul
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[madrileanu]

Thank you for the response Paul.
As for my understanding , the client side people picker from MS: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj713593.aspx is actually fetching all the users from SharePoint Online and as i know is also using principals. Why the people picker from the widget doesn't have the same behavior?
Thanks again Paul. I appreciate your work!

[purtuga]

I'll take a look at it.  This widget here is still using the SOAP APIs which have been frozen and are not longer updated (deprecated).  
It's possible that the REST or CSOM may support the additional attributes I see in the link you posted, mainly:     SearchPrincipalSource    ResolvePrincipalSource
I don't see these in SOAP.  

(also, FYI: this entire library is currently undergoing a huge rewrite to make it more modern and adaptable to O365/SP2013/16.  I'll look to see if the REST API supports the new params then)
Paul
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