Power apps portal/ D365 Portal: Set logged in portal user to a lookup .

 Ask: Set logged in portal user to a lookup.

Scenario: On a portal form we have a contact lookup with the name educator. On load of the form, the value of the educator look shall be set as the logged-in user.

How to do it: Click on F12 on the portal form to navigate to the designer page. There will be 3 ids available on the form. These Ids will be used to set the display name, record guid, and entity name.

Implementation: Below code will be used on the entity form the custom javascript section.

JS Code:

$(document).ready(function(){

$("#new_educator_name").attr("value",'{{user.fullname}}');//Display Name

$("#new_educator").attr("value",'{{user.id}}');//Contact Id

$("#new_educator_entityname").attr("value","contact");//Name of entity lookup

});