Need a second set of eyes, isMemberOf not working

[ServiceNowSteve]

All I am trying to do is see if I am a member of the Managers group (which I am) but this code keeps telling me it's false. Any idea why?

var currentUser = gs.getUser(); 
if(currentUser.isMemberOf('Managers'))
{
gs.log('true');
}
else
{
gs.log('false');
}

[ccajohnson · Accepted solution]

The first thing that comes to mind is that there may be duplicate groups with the same name. Hopefully that is not the case. If there is, perhaps that is why it is returning false. The query finds the first group with that name and unfortunately, you are not a member of **that** group.

See what happens if you remove yourself from a group, then add yourself back in and retry the script. Hopefully it is not an indexing problem, or you are running your script on the instance where you are not part of that group.

Here is a script you can use to get all of your memberships. I modified it so that it will return the names and the sys_id of the group:

      var u = gs.getUserID();

      var myGroups = getGroupMembership(u);

      gs.info(myGroups);

function getGroupMembership(usrID) {

              var retArray = [];

              var memObj = new GlideRecord('sys_user_grmember');

              memObj.addQuery('user', usrID);

              memObj.query();

              while (memObj.next()) {

                      var groupInfo = memObj.group.name + '[' + memObj.group + ']';

                      retArray.push(groupInfo);

              }

              return retArray;

}

[ServiceNowSteve]

This is exactly what it was! I removed myself and re-added then it worked! All that time for a glitch!

Thank you!

[Community Alums]

years later, it still occurs. 🙂 Thanks a simple removal and re-addition seemed to fix the issue.

[Prateek kumar]

Steve, are you trying to use this isMemberOf() function in scoped applications.

If yes, isMemberOf() doesnot work in scoped applications

[Surendra Raika1]

Yeah I wondered the same but as per Steve its returning false ...

So it is working ..aint it