Hello Experts,

is there any way one can get a list of members of a specific group and check whether the current user is a member of that group?

Use case:

If any user of group X has opened a case, please assign group X as owner of that case.

I am thinking of something like:

if (principal.id in group X): ...do stuff in here

I also found the function groups.findByName(name) but unfortunately the object "groups" does not contain all groups that are existent in the system.

Any help or idea is much appreciated!

Thank you very much in advance! 

Hey Matt,

You can definitely do this, but it is done in a slightly different way that what you are describing. I actually have this all documented in my Github which is linked below:

https://github.com/TheIRGurus/Sample-Scripts/tree/main/Current%20User%20Analysis

The method of doing this is actually by just checking for the group as it checks to see if the current user is part of that group already. Below is a sample of how you would go about checking a users group membership.

if groups.findByName('Group Name'):    <block of code to do something if they are in a group>else:    <block of code to do something if they are NOT in a group>

The groups function will actually check to see if the principal running the playbook is in a certain group. If they are in it, the results will have value, otherwise the value will be null.

Hope this helps!

Hello Experts,

is there any way one can get a list of members of a specific group and check whether the current user is a member of that group?

Use case:

If any user of group X has opened a case, please assign group X as owner of that case.

I am thinking of something like:

if (principal.id in group X): ...do stuff in here

I also found the function groups.findByName(name) but unfortunately the object "groups" does not contain all groups that are existent in the system.

Any help or idea is much appreciated!

Thank you very much in advance! 

Hi Nick,

now i understand the function 

groups.findByName()

Thank you very much for the explanation!

Also thank you for sharing your Github repo! Much appreciated! I will definitely look into it!

- Matt

Hey Matt,

You can definitely do this, but it is done in a slightly different way that what you are describing. I actually have this all documented in my Github which is linked below:

https://github.com/TheIRGurus/Sample-Scripts/tree/main/Current%20User%20Analysis

The method of doing this is actually by just checking for the group as it checks to see if the current user is part of that group already. Below is a sample of how you would go about checking a users group membership.

if groups.findByName('Group Name'):    <block of code to do something if they are in a group>else:    <block of code to do something if they are NOT in a group>

The groups function will actually check to see if the principal running the playbook is in a certain group. If they are in it, the results will have value, otherwise the value will be null.

Hope this helps!

Hello Experts,

is there any way one can get a list of members of a specific group and check whether the current user is a member of that group?

Use case:

If any user of group X has opened a case, please assign group X as owner of that case.

I am thinking of something like:

if (principal.id in group X): ...do stuff in here

I also found the function groups.findByName(name) but unfortunately the object "groups" does not contain all groups that are existent in the system.

Any help or idea is much appreciated!

Thank you very much in advance!