How to get group names using getMyGroups() method.

[DS20]

Hello,

   I wanted to get the group names of the user. I have tried using  the getMyGroups() method, but its giving sys_id of the group not the display value of the group name.

Please help me in this.

Thanks in advanced.

[SanjivMeher]

It says it returns the list of sysids of the groups.

You can write a script to get the list of group names.

var grpList = '';

var grm = new GlideRecord('sys_user_grmember');

grm.addQuery('user',gs.getUserID());

grm.query();

while (grm.next())

{

if (grpList)

grpList = grpList+','+grm.group.getDisplayValue();

else

grpList = grm.group.getDisplayValue();

}

gs.addInfoMessage(grpList);

[DS20]

I have tried this it's just giving me one group name not all the list which user belongs. 

how to get by using getMyGroups.toArray()

[simonbergstedt · Accepted solution]

If you want it in an array you can just alter Sanjivs example a bit. If you run the code below as a fix script you should first get the names of all groups you are apart of followed by a line with just the first group in that array

var grpArray = [];
var grm = new GlideRecord('sys_user_grmember');

grm.addQuery('user',gs.getUserID());

grm.query();
while (grm.next())
{
	grpArray.push(grm.group.getDisplayValue());
}

gs.print(grpArray);
gs.print(grpArray[0]);

Now if you want to use this like you do with getMyGroups() then you have to create a script include which you can call upon just like you do with getMyGroups.

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/kingston-application-development/page/script/server-scripting/concept/c_ScriptIncludes.html

[David Hubbard]

One observation this approach works, but doesn't return parent groups (parents of groups the user is a member of) which "getMyGroups()" does - which may or may not be important, depending on the scenario.

In terms of the original question (running in a Scoped Application) I believe the problem is that the return type from "getMyGroups()" is different in Global and Scoped running. See the following via Xplore.

var groups = gs.getUser().getMyGroups();
groups

Global

Scoped

i.e. a different Object type is returned in either case.

I found the following (using ArrayUtil) works in both Scoped and Global (I understand the Original was 2 yrs ago, so things may have changed). 

var groups = gs.getUser().getMyGroups();

var arrayUtil = new global.ArrayUtil();

var grpArray = arrayUtil.convertArray(groups);

gs.print(grpArray[0])

See this ArrayUtil doc