Question

I am new to SharePoint. Sorry if answer to my question is obvious.

I can’t understand, how to assign Task to user programmatically. I set properties in SPWorkflowTaskProperties, all properties pass to Task, but string property AssignedTo doesn’t.

//next variants don't works
TaskProperty.AssignedTo = "1;#Michael Pushin";
TaskProperty.AssignedTo = "Michael Pushin";    
TaskProperty.ExtendedProperties["Assigned To"] = "1;#Michael Pushin";

I am trying to realize delegation pattern. For it I read information from list item that have field type Person.

SPList functList = thisWeb.Lists["Functions"];
SPListItem functItem = functList.GetItemById(1);
object person = functItem["Default Assignee"];
string assignee = person.ToString();
//At this point assignee equals "1;#Michael Pushin"

When I set the “Assigned To” field by hands and read programmatically it value equals to “1;#Michael Pushin” too.

How can I set “Assigned To” field programmatically from value of the person variable?

Thank you in advance.

PS: sorry for my writing. English is not my native language.

PPS: SharePoint 2010.

Answer 1

Do not convert person to string.

object person = functItem["Default Assignee"];

At this point person is smth like SPFieldUserValue. Cast to the actual type and see if you’re able to get SPUser out of it and then grab the SPUser.Login.