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How to check if current user belongs to a sharepoint AD group or not using REST/Javascript only? Currently I am achieving it by adding my security group in a SP group and then checking properties mentioned in below code.
How to check current login user in SharePoint?
We have a SharePoint 2013 On premise environments and having the Domain Groups with the Names contains SPECIAL characters as (Role)x$Customer$2838. Using the below rest call i am able to get all the Groups. Now i want to Check the Current login user exists in a specific Domain Group using Rest api. First add the AD group into a SharePoint group.
This way, you don’t need to actually maintain anything when you add or remove groups on the site. as mentionned, nested security groups from Office 365 or Azure inside Sharepoint groups work as “security wise’, but REST current user groups function does not. It will never return sharepoint group for current user.
How to check current user exists in AD Group?
Luckily you can ask if the current-user has the right to view a groups membership. So if the user can view the membership of the group then he/she must be a member The above REST will return a boolean value depending on whether user is part of the AD group or not.
You can get current Loggedin user’s name using below code as well. Thanks for contributing an answer to SharePoint Stack Exchange! Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
How to get the group of current user?
I’m trying to get the group of current user. By using this code: the problem is , it always return true , means i the member of all group which is false . Any idea ?? You can get current Loggedin user’s name using below code as well.
If your SharePoint Online site is using Modern Experience then you could do it using PowerApps, below article will help to do via PowerApps. https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/set-current-user-as-default-value-of-person-group-field-in-powerapps /
How to find out if one user is a member of a group?
For a recursive search, we use tokenGroupsGlobalAndUniversal to get a recursive list of all the user’s groups from the user’s domain and see if any of those are in the group in question. The tokenGroupsGlobalAndUniversal attribute contains only Global and Universal groups.
Can a domain local group be used outside of the domain?
Domain Local groups cannot be used outside of the domain anyway, so we don’t need to be concerned with those. The tokenGroups attribute is similar. It does include Domain Local groups, however it excludes Distribution groups, which is why I didn’t use it here.