Get user associated group info

[santoshr0114]

Dear All,

How to get all the groupinfo's associated to a particular user.

Ex:

User : Santosh is associated to Design & Production gruops.

Using API i need to get the groups the user "Santosh" is associated with.

Any example would be helpful.

Thank You in advance

[minkd]

There is no way for a regular user to get GroupInfo objects - only Administrators can do that.

However, if you are trying to determine if a user is in a specific group, you can do that with the GetGroupByName call in the AdminService. If the user is in the group, it will return a Group object (not a GroupInfo object); otherwise, it will throw a PermissionDenied exception.

-Dave

[santoshr0114]

Thank You for your reply.

i am aware that i have to be logged in as administrator.

I want to know what groups a specific user is associated with.

Currently i am running a loop using individual userid in groups and gettgin the output perfectly.

Is there any other method to accompish the same task..?

[Redmond.D · Accepted solution]

Yes, cycling through all the groups and users is really the only way to do it.  Keep in mind that groups can have groups, so a user may be "in" a group even if there is no direct link to that group.  Effective Permissions has some code related to this issue, so you may want to have a look at the code.

[santoshr0114]

Thank you for your reply Doug.

Will try the method

[Alainmorin]

Did you have any luck Santosh?

[Maarten65]

Can you publish the code which scanned all users and their groups?