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After doing a little more digging it appears that lookup fields cannot be updated with ValidateUpdateListItem. I was testing with update, which is my fault as I missed initially your use of ValidateUpdateListItem.

That seemed lame so I kept digging and found this post. The below code does work for me:

const j = await sp.web.lists.getByTitle("UserFieldList").items.getById(3).validateUpdateListItem([{
    FieldName: "User1",
    FieldValue: JSON.stringify([{ "Key": "i:0#.f|membership|[email protected]" }]),
},
{
    FieldName: "Title",
    FieldValue: "Test 3 - Updated 5",
}]);

Give that a try and you should be all set.

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Did you see the section at the bottom on resolving field names? Could be something with that maybe. Setting the Id should work so long as the name is right. What version of SharePoint are you targeting?

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I haven't tried the link you sent so I will give it a go. I assumed since I was able to fetch the data using the field name, KIRA_CP_ContentOwnerId, and get a valid value back I should be ok to use this in the update

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Hi,

Just tried the script you suggested, see code and result below. I'm targeting O365

Code

Debugging result

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Did you try and update with that entity property name as the field name with success?

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Sorry for delay. Yeah tried with field name with 'Id' and says column doesn't exist. Tried with field name from entity property name and does nothing when I pass the user id, see some screenshots below. I have also tried setting user field with login name and email address but no joy

Post Saves

Save with owner as string id. Result update happens no change in valid

save with id column name. Result is update error

save with both columns as numbers. Result is rest error about using numbers instead of strings

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If you try in a different list with a different user field do things work? This is starting to seem like something with this list or configuration, and I am unable to duplicate any issues with setting user fields as you describe.

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Just tried again on a new team site with both an OOTB SP list and then in the site pages library and it didn't work. For the list I created a new list, added a new column called 'UserOne', added a new item, updated code to fetch the item, checked the entity property name which was UserOne, called then 'validateUpdateListItem' and got no save errors. When i checked the item it was updated but the user field was blank.

I followed the same process for doing this in the site pages library except i added the new field to the wiki content type and set the new pages as this first. As with the list the updated date changed but the user stayed the same.

Sample code here
https://github.com/raymondlittle100/RL-Test-SPFx-WebParts/tree/master/PnPTesting

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Aye perfect that works

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