People picker selection mode single still selects multiple users

[Jcardif]

Selection Mode not working as expected

I have set the picker on xaml as follows:

                    <controls:PeoplePicker
                        PlaceholderText="Select Engineer on Duty*"
                        RelativePanel.Below="RootCauseTextBox"
                        Margin="{StaticResource MediumTopMargin}"
                        Width="200" Height="35"
                        Padding="{StaticResource MediumTopMargin}"
                        SelectionMode="Single" 
                        Name="FieldEngineerPicker"/>

However, it allows for multiple selection of people when I run it.

Expected behavior

Only one user should be selected from the dropdown list

Screenshots

Environment

Windows 10 Build Number:
- [ ] Fall Creators Update (16299)
- [ ] April 2018 Update (17134)
- [ ] October 2018 Update (17763)
- [ ] May 2019 Update (18362)
- [x] Insider Build (build number:20279.fe_release.201209-1322 )

App min and target version:
- [ ] Fall Creators Update (16299)
- [ ] April 2018 Update (17134)
- [ ] October 2018 Update (17763)
- [x] May 2019 Update (18362)
- [ ] Insider Build (xxxxx)

Device form factor:
- [x] Desktop
- [ ] Xbox
- [ ] Surface Hub
- [ ] IoT

Visual Studio 
- [ ] 2017 (version: )
- [x] 2019 (version: 16.8) 
- [ ] 2019 Preview (version: )

[ghost]

Hello Jcardif, thank you for opening an issue with us!

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[michael-hawker]

Thanks for the bug report @Jcardif, this is an underlying issue with the base TokenizingTextBox control.

The TokenizingTextBox was built inherently with multiple selection in it's core purpose, otherwise a drop-down using the PersonView within the template is a better UX choice? Could you describe your user scenario in a bit more detail? Maybe we need a different version of this control somewhere to help encapsulate that better?

The SelectionMode property is just coming from ListViewBase and we never intended to hook it up into this control, though I'm not sure if we can hide it... I've filed a bug in our main repo for tracking that discussion there: CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit#3672

[Jcardif]

my application is used to select a user from Graph and assign a specific app role and the requirements are that only one user should be assigned at a time, the current picker selects multiple users unfortunately. Or is there another control for this purpose?

[michael-hawker]

@Jcardif we don't have a control that provides that functionality out of the box. We only have the multi-select scenario setup through TokenizingTextBox. You can look at the source we have here to get the call you need from the Graph and just use that to populate a normal ComboBox control.

[shweaver-MSFT]

Support for restricting the TokenizingTextBox to one token at a time is in PR in the WCT repo currently: CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit#4163

Once that gets figured out, the PeoplePicker control can then take advantage of that feature to resolve/support this scenario! 🚢

[shweaver-MSFT]

The feature has been added to the TokenizingTextBox in Windows Community Toolkit 🚀 The PeoplePicker will have the new MaximumTokens property for limiting the number of allowable tokens in the upcoming 7.1.0 release.