Set Person Field default value to current user in SharePoint Online

Question

How to customize the SharePoint Online Form to set the default value of SharePoint person column to the current login user using PowerApps

Answer 1

You can customize the SharePoint form in PowerApps and follow these steps

1. From the SharePoint list click Integration> PowerApps and select Customize forms to customize this SharePoint form in PowerApps studio.
2. In the Onvisible property of the form set the formula to get the current logged in user .

The formula is:

UpdateContext({    
    CurrentUser: {    
        '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",    
        Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & Lower(User().Email),    
        Department: "",    
        DisplayName: User().FullName,    
        Email: User().Email,    
        JobTitle: ".",    
        Picture: "."    
    }    
})

3.Set the DefaultSelectedItems property of the combo box to be CurrentUser