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    <p>This one is weird.</p> <p>I'm executing this code in a Timer Job in SharePoint 2010 ...</p> <pre><code>... // Get the field by it's internal name SPField field = item.Fields.GetFieldByInternalName(fieldInternalName); if (field != null) { SPFieldUser userField = (SPFieldUser)field; object value = null; if (userField.AllowMultipleValues) { // Bug when getting field value in a timer job? Throws an ArgumentException users = new SPFieldUserValueCollection(item.ParentList.ParentWeb, item[userField.Id].ToString()); } else { // Get the value from the field, no exception value = item[userField.Id]; } } ... </code></pre> <p>This code works perfectly when run in a simple ConsoleApplication but when run in the context of a Timer Job in SharePoint 2010 it throws an ArgumentException in the line ...</p> <pre><code>users = new SPFieldUserValueCollection(item.ParentList.ParentWeb, item[userField.Id].ToString()); </code></pre> <p>I've tried many variations to retreive a value from a SPFieldUser but all fail only when a Timer Job is executing it and the field has AllowMultipleValues property set to TRUE.</p> <p>I have tried debugging with Reflector and it seems that the exception is being thrown here in SPListItem ...</p> <pre><code>public object this[Guid fieldId] { get { SPField fld = this.Fields[fieldId]; if (fld == null) { throw new ArgumentException(); } return this.GetValue(fld, -1, false); } ... </code></pre> <p>And this here would be the exception stack trace...</p> <pre><code>System.ArgumentException was caught Message=Value does not fall within the expected range. Source=Microsoft.SharePoint StackTrace: at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldMap.GetColumnNumber(String strFieldName, Boolean bThrow) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItemCollection.GetColumnNumber(String groupName, Boolean bThrowException) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItemCollection.GetRawValue(String fieldname, Int32 iIndex, Boolean bThrow) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.GetValue(SPField fld, Int32 columnNumber, Boolean bRaw, Boolean bThrowException) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.get_Item(Guid fieldId) at FOCAL.Point.Applications.Audits.AuditUtility.GetPeopleFromField(SPListItem item, String fieldInternalName) </code></pre> <p>Sighh... any thoughts?</p>
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