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I have a combo box that is working fine for adding new people (one or more) to a SP list - the data is stored in the SP List as a single line of string.

Now my struggle is editing the item. I'm not doing a "Form". It's an independent combo box

In my SP List you see this... (nice - 2 names in this case)
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Now, my struggle is to show these people as the defaults in the combo box. As I want the person to be able to edit (add/delete) then I need to render in this case Richard and Karen as people fields in the combo box so the person can edit them.

I have done a single person combo box before but only ever in true Forms and now I've confused myself completely. What surprised is that the

I figure I need to split the string by the delimeter and then build a person object... but I'm not sure how I do the split and the build at the same time.

For the defaultedSelectedItems I did this...

RenameColumns(Split(varItem.'Marketing Team', ","), "Result", "Value")

Which displayed the 2 people's names in the combo box BUT here's where I think they are truly not treated as "people fields" so when I write on the path I do this...

'Marketing Team': Concat(CmbIFCContact.SelectedItems,DisplayName,", ")

and it ignores them because they are not people fields just regular text strings for each person. I know somehow I need to build the people fields but not sure how to do that with multiple people...(like this - but not exactly this).

Set(sample,{
 '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
 Claims: Concatenate(
 "i:0#.f|membership|",
 Lower(varUser.Email)
 ),
 Department: "",
 DisplayName: varUser.FullName, 
 Email: varUser.Email,
 JobTitle: "",
 Picture: ""
})

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Hi @sasrsc1966,

Do you want to assign person names to a Text column?

Could you please tell me how you set the Items property of the Combo Box?

I think you have something misunderstanding about the Person field. A normal Person field allowing multi select seems does not have existing delimiter between persons just like below:

If you want to assign a Person format to the ComboBox DefaultSelectedItems property, please try steps as below.

1). Add a Combo Box and set the Items property as below:

Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm:""})

2). I assume the varItem is a record from your list, and in my scenario I set this using the Gallery.Selected. I set the DefaultSelectedItems property of the Combo Box as below:

ForAll(
 Split(
 varItem.'Marketing Team',
 ","
 ),
 First(Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm: Result}))
).DisplayName

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