getMyGroups() not working properly.

[KS86]

Hi all,

I am using getMyGroups() in my code to get all groups. It is returning one extra group. Why?

I know below thing can be achieved by other ways, but I want to use getMyGroups().

My code-

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

var groupIds=JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(groups));

var gr=new GlideRecord('sys_user_group');

gr.addQuery('sys_id', 'IN', groupIds);

gr.query();

while(gr.next()){

    gs.info("Name "+gr.name)

}

Answer-

*** Script: Name HR Tier 1
*** Script: Name App Engine Admins
*** Script: Name Conditional Script Writer
*** Script: Name Team Development Code Reviewers
*** Script: Name HR

[KS86]

All these groups don't have Parent except HR Tier 1 , it is a child of HR group.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@KS86 

getMyGroups() returns parent group as well for the child to which you belong

So you should query sys_user_grmember to get exact group to which you belong

var groups = [];
var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_user_grmember');
gr.addQuery('user', 'IN', gs.getUserID());
gr.query();
while (gr.next()) {
    groups.push(gr.group.name.toString());
}
gs.info('groups are' + groups.toString());

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