Sometimes, you will need to add permission or assign multiple users using People Picker field. This post tells you how you can insert multiple user entities using COPY (CTRL + C) and PASTE (CTRL + V).
First of you, make sure your user logins are in claims format. The reason why you need it to be in this format is that the SharePoint People Picker cannot identify of which provider the login if it is not in the full format…
Refer to link here for all the format required.
Append “;” at the back of each login
e.g.
i:0e.t|identity provider|someone@somewhere.com;i:0#.w|domainA\domainuser1;
Additonal Note: SharePoint People Picker allows you to quick Check Name by hitting Ctrl + K
Awesome Post! nicely documented. Really Helpful in understanding the issue of bulk insert of multiple user into SharePoint 2013
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Thanks, time saver! Had to do a bunch of copy and pasting of 10+ users all over the place.
Hi i tried adding users in this format ” i:0#.w|AD\John; i:0#.w|AD\James;” in 2010 but unable to resolve the users .And what is the people picker limit?
some say the limit is 100 (at once)
im sure i:0#.w|xxx\officer01; i:0#.w|xxx\officer02; should work cause it was tested and it works for SP2016 too.
Are the AD accounts active? or if they are even exists.